Introduction: Emmanuel Abiodun Adepoju, otherwise known as “Biggy” on campus, is a Google Student Ambassador from University of Ibadan in Nigeria. He is currently pursuing a B.SC in computer science. Biggy’s ability to think “big” has not only allowed him to be a successful Student Ambassador but has given him tools and resources to have a profound impact on his community. What inspired you to apply to the Google Ambassador program? Once selected as an Ambassador, what did you do? How did you help your university community? For example, the students, the faculty, the university as whole? Google Apps supporting program which I never knew about since my university was not involved with at the time. I knew I had to convince my university to adopt this program as so many students could benefit from these free tools. After some convincing and hard work, deployment of Google Apps for Education is now in progress. Google Apps for Education to the university lecturers so they could see for themselves all the free tools available such as Gmail, Calendar and Docs. I have also taken time to introduce lecturers to some of the opportunities Google provides in form of scholarships, research grants and especially the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for women in technology.
We were able to create a geographic mapping of our university online. The map was put on a Google map and now the public can access online. This map was acclaimed to be the world best practice guide of University mapping.
We were able to train more than 40 Student Mappers who are currently impacting their environment by mapping their communities.
We were able to produce a very vibrant team in the Google online marketing challenge. Our team was one of 8 universities from Sub Saharan Africa which placed in the top 100 globally.
We were able to get our fellow students to attend g|nigeria, an annual Google hosted event for developers and entrepreneurs. This year alone, more than 60 students from my university attended as a result of the awareness we created.
How did the Ambassador program give you the necessary tools to help your university? Google Map Maker at the Google Ambassador orientation in Lagos. The training has enabled me to also train a group of people which in turn has helped them train others and the cycle goes on and on resulting in more Map Maker users.g|nigeria . After learning how g|days are a great opportunity to keep students and professionals up to speed on the latest technology trends and innovations, I convinced the Head of the Computer Science Department to allow students to attend the conference. It was so successful that it’s now a tradition in the department to send students to the conference every year.How did this have an impact on your local community? MIT Accelerating Information Technology Innovation program, even our MIT visitors used it during their stay here. The report we submitted for the mapping exercise has become the leading practice guide for universities. This report was the brain behind Google Map Makerpedia - community generated-learning portal for Google map maker featuring lessons, tutorials and use cases around the world, today other mappers now go to the portal to learn from our experience and also also get to share their own experience to the mapping community.How has this program impacted your life? If you are interested in learning more about Google’s Student Ambassador Program in Europe, Middle East and Africa, please visit our site for more information. You can also find more information about this program in other regions on our Google for Students page . Finally, if you are interested in learning more about how Google engages with African universities, please visit our African University Programs page . Posted by Marni Merksamer Levasseur, People Programs Specialist - Europe, Middle East and Africa
5 comments :
congratulations, egbon.
Congrats I'm proud of u..
This is indeed excellent. Congrats to you for putting the U.I community and Nigeria as a whole on a positive page in global society. Wish you all the best in future endeavors.
Well, Emmanuel Abiodun Adepoju is my bro I didnt know he existed
Congratulation Ambassador it just painfull to me that I tried so many time to reach you via your glo line but what I hear is that your number is not available. If you are curious who this might be, I am the tech guy(Obinna) at the last year Don Bosco ICT conference. I wish to hear from you. Thanks
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