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Fab-Ukozor Somto Sharon, recently won the ITU Young Innovators contest. She was in Geneva, Switzerland with other young innovators from across the world where she presented her MS2C idea and emerged winner of the prestigious contest.

Sommie as she is popularly called is a young vivacious and intuitive young lady who is committed to exploring new ways the ICT can be used as an advocacy tool for youth development and empowerment. She has been a keen volunteer at Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) FUTO Campus where she served both as assistant technical director and project head for “Making C.E.O Project”.

In this interview with Grace Ihejiamaizu, Sommie shares her passion and idea to change the world as well as her experience with ITU 2011.

I am doing great, thank you.

My experience was both exciting and memorable. It was a stimulating programme with rich networking opportunities. I enjoyed meeting and making friends with other 29 Young Innovators and learning from their ideas and exchanging stories with people from different backgrounds, orientation and race. The facilitators and mentors were awesome, the whole exercise from story-boarding, to forming personas and limiting our powerpoint slides to specified maximum number and words. It was exciting and informative.

MS2C (Mobile Skills to Cash) is essentially an Application platform that connects young Nigerians willing to provide services or products to Companies or Individuals who need those services, as well NGOs and Government bodies focused on skill acquisition, extension services or SME funding. The young folks can interact via sms or smart phone clients.

I found out that every year our Nigerian Universities graduate over a hundred thousand students without provision for them in the labour market and most of these people have skills but do not know how to use it in the present economic state of the country, so they rather engage in social vices or migrate to big cities causing over-population. So I was inspired to develop this project, to link these youths, undergraduates inclusive and empower them. As you know I belong to this generation, I am a graduating student from the FUTO where I studied Elect/Elect Engineering, and majored in Communication Engineering.

Continue reading the interview HERE