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Oreoluwa Somolu Lesi is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and UK-trained economist and information technology expert. She is the founder and executive director of Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC), a non-profit organisation that empowers women and girls socially and economically through education in Information technology.

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Gone are the days where girls are relegated to doing domestic chores, leaving boys to go to school and have a career.

It also encourages the girls to rise to the top to see these women as options.

It is best at this age for parents, guardians and teachers to give the girls the opportunity to be the best, have confidence in themselves and basically dream as widely as they can.

There is a greater awareness of the issue of, the gender gap in technology.

Over the years, we have been able to create awareness about the gender gap.

It also encourages women who are in technology all ready to step out.

It is important to grow people. To realise that people are individuals with their dreams.

We encourage the women we find to give talks to the girls so that there is visibility.

We need more women in the space because they bring their unique perspective to development, technology and policy.

Revalidating the role of women in technology is not meant to compete with the men, it shouldn’t be like that because we all have our area of strengths and perspective. We are bringing different levels of exposure to the team or workplace.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oreoluwa Lesi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.