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		<title>[Tweets] On Internet Surveillance Contract for Nigeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 20:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still wondering if Jonathan Administration signed a 2-year contract with Elbit Systems worth $40 million, as reported by Premium Times? 1/10 &#8212; &#8216;Gbenga Sesan (@gbengasesan) May 4, 2013 The silence of government simply means one thing. Otherwise, Dr. Abati and Dr. Okupe &#8211; and the twitter chap &#8211; would have responded. 2/10 &#8212; &#8216;Gbenga Sesan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria: Pardon for GEJ’s former oga at the top…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR, granted Presidential Pardon to his former Oga At The Top, and one of his aides was quick to shift the blame to the Council of State. Well, here&#8217;s what the constitution says. And more&#8230; What does the Nigerian constitution say about #PresidentialPardon? Who makes the decision? Does Council of State vote, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2013 Cyber Dialogue Conference. And Blogs You Should Read!</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1248</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cyber Dialogue conference, presented by the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, convenes an influential mix of global leaders from government, civil society, academia and private enterprise to participate in a series of facilitated public plenary conversations and working groups around cyberspace security and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mapping tweets in Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi, Tunis, Accra, Addis Ababa, Mogadishu and Kigali</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1238</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Mapping Tweets in Africa, Simon Rogers wrote: Who uses Twitter in Africa &#8211; and where are they based? Mark Graham and the team at the Oxford Internet Institute have looked at Tweets from key African cities &#8211; and the variation tells you a lot about access to technology across the continent. Just look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking a More Free Internet through Multi-­Stakeholder Dialogue</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1233</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 05:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joint Statement of Civil Society Delegates to the 2012 Internet Governance Forum We, the undersigned representatives of civil society who attended and participated in the 2012 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) on 6-9 November 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan, make this statement upon the conclusion of the meeting to highlight the opinions we expressed and concerns we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Time to Map: Mapping the Nigerian Tech Ecosystem</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1224</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a time for everything. There&#8217;s a time to learn, and a time to apply that which has been learnt. There&#8217;s a time to apply what&#8217;s been learnt, and a time to show results. There&#8217;s a time to show off results, and a time to connect results and resources with others. There&#8217;s a time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Reasons To Attend #TENT2012 From 10-12.12.12</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1218</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[#TENT2012 registration closes Friday, November 23, 2012. Register today: bit.ly/SYTzrK #Techie #Entrepreneurial #Nigerian @talented — Paradigm Initiative (@pinigeria) November 20, 2012 Reasons To Join #TENT2012: Speakers. Mentorship. Networking. Demos. Energy. Prizes. Games. Failure. Location. Clinics. Investors. Different — Paradigm Initiative (@pinigeria) November 20, 2012 Speakers: No death by powerpoint. At #TENT2012 you get real stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria and Global ICT Policy: Making Sense of All These Meetings</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1215</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The room is full of people from various countries and age brackets, but one group stands out. They say longer hellos to each other and seem to have something in common &#8211; thousands and thousands of travel miles earned between scores of conferences that they now navigate with so much ease. They may be advocates, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PIN Hosts TENT Gathering To Jumpstart ICT Innovation In Nigerian Universities</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1209</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Nigerian student, PIN will now accept your registration for #TENT Gathering holding Dec 10-12, 2012. Register via bit.ly/SVqFJg &#8212; Paradigm Initiative (@pinigeria) October 30, 2012 Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) will, from December 10 through 12, 2012, host the first edition of its annual TENT Gathering, where 500 students with keen interest in ICT solutions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 New Economy Skills</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1199</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few thoughts expressed on twitter earlier today, based on what I told students at 2 meetings where I spoke at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife last weekend: Final Year students in Computer Science/Engineering, ICT, etc, in Nigeria, may want to look at jumping on #BigData. It&#8217;ll be hot for a while &#8212; &#8216;Gbenga Sesan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Report: Governments Grow Increasingly Repressive Online, Activists Fight Back</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1194</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 07:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington – September 24, 2012 – Brutal attacks against bloggers, politically motivated surveillance, proactive manipulation of web content, and restrictive laws regulating speech online are among the diverse threats to internet freedom emerging over the past two years, according to a new study released today by Freedom House. Despite these threats, Freedom on the Net [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell Nigerian Legislators To Obey The Law</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1185</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overheard in Abuja: &#8220;Legislators don&#8217;t want to declare incomes because if you know what they earn, you&#8217;ll hit the streets.&#8221; #OccupyNigeria — &#8216;Gbenga Sesan (@gbengasesan) August 30, 2012 On August 29, 2012, Punch reported that &#8220;National Assembly, through its Clerk, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa, has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to stay execution of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BUSINESSDAY: “40 UNDER 40: Gbenga Sesan, CEO, Paradigm Initiative”</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1181</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Funke Osae-Brown for BusinessDay Gbenga Sesan grew up in Akure. He saw a computer for the first time ever during his third year in secondary school, but he never had access to it until another three years. His inability to satisfy his curiosity about computers was a very big challenge to him. Instead of getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VANGUARD: “My teacher said computers not for people like me – ‘Gbenga Sesan”</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1180</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gift Gabriel for Vanguard Newspapers Federal Government College, Idoani, Akure had just received two sets of computers and Gbenga Sesan, who was in his third year, was too excited to try his hands on the devices. “Sorry, you can’t understand how to use them because they not for people like you”, a teacher rebuked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian Telecom Sector Report (June 2012)</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1152</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data is king and numbers don&#8217;t lie. However, any researcher or data lover will tell you how hard it is to happen upon some much-needed data in Nigeria. I&#8217;ve often had to use multiple primary sources to get data, which should already exist, for reports and research work around the Nigerian technology space. This explains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vacancy: Content Managers</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1172</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A fast-growing Nigerian Internet Portal is looking for talented content managers. Does the following describe you? - Age: Between 20 and 27 - Experienced Internet user - Experience of working with desktop software (MS Windows, Internet browsers, MS Office, Image editors) - Basic knowledge of HTML - 2+ years work experience with computer - Good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Speed: Global Download Study</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1143</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[via chartsbin.com Nigeria: 104KBps According to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Nigeria currently has a broadband penetration rate of 7%. The NCC is working with the Ministry of Communication Technology and stakeholders to grow this to 35% by 2017. With 47,143,356 Internet users as at the end of 2011, 28.43% of Nigerians have access to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Remember Ojota!</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1136</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few days after Ojota was overtaken by military men whose deployment will remain a mystery, as with some things Nigerian, I returned to breathe in the air. As I alighted from the car, a friendly voice said, &#8220;be careful sir,&#8221; but I wasn&#8217;t looking for trouble and it was bright enough for me to avoid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Evidence and Signature Now Admissible in Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1129</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a series of tweets earlier today, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) focused on the new provision for the admissibility of digital evidence and signature in Nigerian courts, and more. Read them below. Follow @pinigeria and let&#8217;s get the conversation going. The age-long setback for digital evidence in Nigerian law courts has been eliminated with emergence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOT AN OPTION: Why I’m Not Giving Up on Restoring Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://www.gbengasesan.com/?p=1123</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Gbenga Sesan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was one of those afternoons in Lagos. The sun was up in all its might, as if to prove a point to air cooling units. Traffic was bumper to bumper, with enough frayed nerves to light up any tiny dispute. And then, a wrong turn that led into the unforgiving Mushin traffic. In between [...]]]></description>
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