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Nigerian Tech & Innovation Entrepreneur
About Oguntunde Babatunde
In 2021, Oguntunde Babatunde co-designed the Lagos Smart Grid Pilot, a hybrid solar-microgrid platform that cut power outages by 68% for 14,000 SMEs across Alaba International Market, using locally trained edge-AI models that ran offline on repurposed Android devices. That project wasn’t just infrastructure; it was his thesis in practice: technology must be legible, repairable, and owned by the communities it serves, not imported as black-box SaaS. He refuses VC funding that demands equity stakes from Nigerian founders, instead seeding ventures through his Ijebu Innovation Trust, which ties capital to open-source documentation and local technician certification. His boardroom style blends Yoruba proverbs with real-time fintech dashboards, and he’s banned the word 'disruption' from his accelerator’s curriculum, preferring 're-rooting', 'layering', and 'custodianship'. When he speaks at AU tech summits, he brings a physical ledger book alongside his tablet, one tracking informal credit flows in Ogun State, the other visualizing blockchain-anchored loan disbursements.
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- “How did you adapt edge-AI for offline markets like Alaba?”
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