Oluseun Onigbinde (18 September 1985)
is a Nigerian
entrepreneur and
open data analyst popularly known as the
co-founder and
CEO
A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...
of
budgIT,
a Nigerian civic startup. Oluseun Onigbinde is a fiscal transparency advocate and firm believer in the power of Open Data. In 2012, he was awarded the Future Awards Prize for Science and Tech Innovation.
Oluseun on 13 September 2019 got appointed as Technical Adviser in the Ministry of Budget and National Planning. Some
Nigerians reacted badly to his appointment due to his past criticism of the same government that appointed him
On Monday, 16 September 2019, Oluseun resigned his appointment as Technical Adviser to the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning on his
medium page.
Early life
Oluseun is a native of Masifa,
Ogbomoso
Ogbomosho (also Ògbómọ̀ṣọ́) is a city in Oyo State, south-western Nigeria. It was founded in the mid 17th century. The population was approximately 454,690 in the 2006 census. It is the second largest city in Oyo State and also among ...
,
Oyo State. He was born in
Osogbo, presently
Osun State,
Nigeria.
Educational background
He had his primary and secondary school education in
Ibadan. The prestigious
Loyola College, Ibadan where he excelled in the sciences. He scored nine distinctions in his West African Examinations Council's exam, earning the best result of the school's 2001 set.
Oluseun attended the
University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta is one of the higher institutions of learning owned and run by the Federal government of Nigeria.
History
The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, or FUNAAB, was estab ...
where he obtained a
bachelor of engineering (B.Eng.) in
Electrical/Electronics Engineering and the
Stanford university graduate school of business
The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business sc ...
where he completed the executive program in
social entrepreneurship.
Career
During his NYSC, he was posted to
Benin City
Benin City is the capital and largest city of Edo State, Edo State, Nigeria. It is the fourth-largest city in Nigeria according to the 2006 census, after Lagos, Kano (city), Kano, and Ibadan, with a population estimate of about 3,500,000 as of ...
where he got a job at
Access bank. He later joined
First Bank for a period of three and half years. It was while he was working at First Bank that he got the idea for BudgIT. According to him, his interest in banking was from the strategy angle, a space where he could contribute his ideas.
Oluseun Onigbinde is a recipient of several awards and he is currently an
Obama Foundation Scholar at
Columbia University. He is a board member of the ONE Africa Policy Advisory Board.
He was appointed as Technical Adviser at the Ministry of Budget and National Planning but resigned few days after this appointment.
BudgIT
In 2011, Oluseun Onigbinde and Joseph Agunbiade formed a team during a hackathon held at the
Co-Creation Hub. It was here that he came up with the idea for a need to publicize government spending to the general public, leading to the startup BudgIT.
In 2014, the
Omidyar Network invested $400,000 in BudgIT; this has always been listed on their website. In June 2015, the
Kaduna State government under the administration of Mallam El-Rufai, signed BudgIT to build Open Budget mobile portal similar to the Buharimeter; a platform which was built by BudgIT for
Center for Democracy and Development to hold
President Buhari
Muhammadu Buhari (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician and current president of Nigeria since 2015.
Buhari is a retired Nigerian Army major general who served as the country's military head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 Au ...
accountable for his campaign promises. In January 2017, BudgIT raised an additional $3 million grant from
Omidyar Network and
Gates Foundation. In February 2016, Oluseun Onigbinde was honoured to make a presentation at the
Chatham House under
the African Project on issue of accountability and governance.
Civic Technology
Onigbinde has always been a big believer in data-driven journalism and participated a health journalism project as part of the Knight Innovation Fellowship of the International Center for Journalists. In 2014, BudgIT launche
Tracka a project tracking tool. Tracka monitors public projects in over 600 communities in Nigeria.
His organization also founded Civic Hive, Nigeria's civic innovation hub, that incubates solely civic tech start-ups.
Personal life
Seun resides in
Lagos with his wife, Oluwaseun, and daughters - Wuraola and Ireoluwa
Awards and recognitions
* Ashoka Fellowship for Global Entrepreneurs.
* The Future Awards, 2012.
* World Summit Youth Award
* Knight International Journalism Fellow/ International Center for Journalists
* Harambe Fellowship (Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance)
* 2016 Aspen New Voices Fellowship
* 2016 Draper Hills Summer Fellowship, Stanford University (Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of the Law).
* Obama Foundation Scholar (2018 - 2019)
* Quartz Africa Innovators Award
* 2018 Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow
References
External links
*
Oluseun Onigbinde on CCHub’s ventures page.
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1985 births
Living people
Web developers
Loyola College, Ibadan alumni
Nigerian technology businesspeople
Yoruba businesspeople
21st-century Nigerian businesspeople
People from Osogbo
Nigerian company founders
Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta alumni
Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni