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Ovia heads public sector growth at Helium Health where she interacts with the company’s clients that are public-sector facing. For governments, mostly the ministries and other such parastatals, the value proposition remains the ability to gain more insights into the numbers across public health institutions hence increasing the chances that whatever little funding is available for the sector within the national and state budgets actually goes to where they are needed. Nigeria’s political elite (and those up the echelons of wealth) accustomed to trips abroad for health reasons, from annual body checkups to lifesaving surgeries, were, for once, stuck with the medical care systems their lack of care and political will had created. Personally, Ovia’s immediate long term goal is to transition into advising on policy development on local and global levels using insights and data gained from digitizing medical records across public and private healthcare sectors, and she is well on the right path.

Rwanda is quickly becoming an innovator’s paradise. Technology companies and manufacturers from within and outside the continent are moving to the country to either set-up innovation hubs or manufacturing plants

From Lagos to Dakar, conversations abound about the future of work and how innovation continues to disrupt what we think we know. New technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics still generate understandable uncertainty about what roles humans will be able to play in the labour force in another five years

Starting and running a business has some striking similarities to adventure games. The excitement and potential pitfalls against a background of courage that’s required when seeking adventure in games, remain principal ingredients to succeed as a founder, especially when it’s a ‘first’