Who am I? :smile:
I am a graduate of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria with a second class upper division. During my University days, I shuttled between the school and my home. I was fortunate to also participate in chess club. I presently live in Accra, Ghana. Yeah Accra is a beautiful place.
See a few pictures :smiley:
Anyone in Accra @accra interested in playing chess should hookup.
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team @accra find me a good chess player
And I also used my leisure time to go through the Cisco Academy. Yeah, I was on the path to success.
Then came the insurgence in 2009 :rage:
It was horrible. There are so much information on the issue but I would share how it affected me. First because I am an engineering student I was a target.
Primarily because
- We knew how to build stuffs and they needed young people that knew how to build stuffs
- We were young
- We were a cheap labour
- We can be frightened
A few of my colleague were recruited into the insurgency. I had a friend in the Chemical Engineering department that was picked. For about 4 months we were seeing dead bodies on our streets, the school was closed, the roads were closed. We could not move we are frightened to dead staying.
.... to be continue
The hard decision I had to make :fearful:
Anyways after a few months, my parent fled the state because they are missionaries and I was left to loss 4 years of my life and start my academics at a new university or risk getting killed by staying behind to get my degree. I opted for the later. It was crazy at that time but now in insight I think it was worth it. I wanted to have a transfer to another university in the southern part of the country but the VCs at most of the Universities I contacted decided to offer my a second year level while I was in my final year at the University of Maiduguri with less than 7 months to graduate. I was heartbroken, pissed and afraid. I still hate those days and they people that made it so.
How I survived :triumph:
First I moved to the campus and became very careful where I go who I talk with where I stayed. The secret is to suspect everyone else to be part of the insurgent and be careful what you discuss outside. I also decided to sleep in different room everyday.
How I felt what is like to not have access to communication :disappointed:
Unfortunately for us as the insurgence continued menacing, the government decided to shutdown all telecommunication service. You image how it would feel like if you could not make a phone call. You cannot book an appointment, you would not know where to find whom you are looking, you cannot call your love ones. You are shut out from the world and at the same time you are menaced by an insurgent. I must confess it was hell. It was very insensitive of the government to opt for that as a mean of combating the insurgent.
Hacking communication with satellite technology :wink:
But I am an Engineering student and a network intermediate. At that time, the university has just won the WorldBank StepB project
And that met we had access to a satellite internet connection which was working fairly at the time.
So my friends and I decided to step up VoIP service to help us make phone calls using the Internet. It was very interesting and rewarding. We had a couple of people come to us to make calls to their love ones.
Remember parents were worried for their young children at the University. They needed to keep in touch with them considering the situation they (students) were in.
And I graduated in 2012 :triumph:
The insurgency was subdued partially in 2011, we continued our studies temporarily. Then I graduated in 2012 June, I was so happy.
Now what?........ :question: :pensive:
While I am searching for Job I discovered that I have a keen interest in the analysis of information flow in Nigeria. Considering what I passed through at Borno, I am now bent on aiding the process of information flow analysis. When information is being disseminated
1. How do you understand it
2. How do you analyze it.
3. Things that are being said how does it affect the present situation?
Those are the questions I would want to use data analysis and data visualization to answer.
My theory, if information was organized, analyzed, the insurgency we passed through we are still witnessing in Nigeria would have be controlled*.
We need your participation
Can blockchain adoption solve cases like this? You can send your suggestions to mafisicoders[at]gmail.com.
normal = blockchain_awared_population /population
if(blockchain_awareness > normal){
...
control insurgency( )
...
}