Gina🇨🇲

Tech Enthusiast (Data | Development | Design).
Women's Advocate.
Mindfulness. I tweet random stuff 😃

[Gina🇨🇲 @ginandze]

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐈𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥❓
-A female perspective in the design of tech products ensures innovation, inclusiveness and more effective solutions.
It was fun talking #tech with the girls at @PlanCameroon today!

[Gina🇨🇲 @ginandze]

The number 7.
Completion.
It is finished.
And so a new era begins.
Amen.

[Gina🇨🇲 @ginandze]

Reach out for help!
https://t.co/VqQx8EJvag

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Let us #UniteToEndGBV
There is #NoExcuse

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@SabineVdL Thank you Sabine. 🙏🙏

[Gina🇨🇲 @ginandze]

Join us for BeLA’s FREE #HerTechSpace webinar on Aug 26, 2024, at 5 PM on Google Meet! 🌟

Hear from inspiring women in tech, get expert advice, and find valuable resources.

🔗 Register: https://t.co/0I3xtSHO2e
💬 Join Updates: https://t.co/SKoScDLlLY

#WomenInTech #Empowerment

[Gina🇨🇲 @ginandze]

@CynthiaAcha @TechWomen @USEmbYaounde Congratulations!!! 🎉

[Gina🇨🇲 @ginandze]

@kamran4300 Send

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@kamran4300 Course

[Gina🇨🇲 @ginandze]

Attended the biggest tech event in Cameroon this year - #AWSCommunityDayCameroon! 🇨🇲
Women in tech are killing it too - shoutout to @DeliaAyoko and @WittyJany
Big ups to @AWSUserGroupDouala for putting on an awesome event! 👏

[Gina🇨🇲 @ginandze]

@nkwenti_fn Yeah me too!
Y'all did an amazing job putting the event together Fon.👏👏

[Gina🇨🇲 @ginandze]

Today I attended #AWSCommunityDayCameroon and had such an amazing time.
Listened to some really inspiring speakers and yup, I met some really cool people too!

[Gina🇨🇲 @ginandze]

#AWSCommunityDay

[Tambe Tabitha Achere🤗 @TambeAchere]

#BlackTechTwitter #BlackInData

I got into Oxford's MSc in Software Engineering programme ❤️
https://t.co/5G1pMwFGFH

How do people fund degrees like this one without taking loans?

[Gina🇨🇲 @ginandze]

Indabax Cameroon 2024!

[Gina🇨🇲 @ginandze]

@0x_Kun @Rizzabeast @binance Me neither

[Gina🇨🇲 @ginandze]

@_the_tech_girl_ Congratulations Divi ❤️

[Petra @agienpetra]

So honored to be featured as a mentor spotlight for @outreachy

[Gina🇨🇲 @ginandze]

@Barichnel @africatechie

[Women Techmakers Bamenda @WTMBamenda]

Keynote speaker - @idadelveloper WTM Bamenda Lead and Ambassador

Keynote: Don’t Chase Clout, Create Impact

RSVP: https://t.co/oEiqHqQoos

📅 20th April 2024
🏢 Admiralty Hotel
🕰️ 8:00am

#WTMBamenda
#WTMBamendaIWD
#IWD2024
#Impactthefuture
#WTMImpactthefuture

[Gina🇨🇲 @ginandze]

#UnleashOurInternet

[Rebecca Enonchong @africatechie]

Long post on internet in Cameroon, following the Starlink announcement.

Fibre remains the best internet solution by far. It's the fastest, the most reliable, and the least expensive.

The problem we have in Cameroon is that although we have amazing infrastructure into the country with several very high capacity undersea cables that land at our borders, we purchase too little capacity to meet the demand in the country. So we end up using less than 15% of what is available.

The second problem is that fiber can't stop at the landing sites. We need to deploy the fiber throughout the country. This is a big investment and it will take time.

The main impediment to progress is Camtel. They control the capacity that is purchased, they resell to MTN and Orange at outrageous rates, and they also control the deployment of fiber within the country.

This situation is untenable. The first step, and this can happen OVERNIGHT, is for Camtel to purchase more capacity for the undersea cables. Even if government must subsidize for a few months, the value to the economy will more than cover these costs. The capacity needs to be increased by 10 or 20 times at a minimum. We can always resell excess capacity to neighboring countries.

You can feel the capacity problems when your connection drops. Too many people trying to access the same very limited data. It's like with Eneo that has to shut down power to some users to give access to others. Internet works the same way except it can be increased very easily.

Second, and this can also happen OVERNIGHT, the pricing to the other telcos must be reviewed and lowered. Since the telcos are forced to buy from Camtel and can't negotiate their own terms for undersea cable access, it is important that they get reasonable pricing from Camtel despite the monopoly, and that they pass on those savings to the consumer.

In the longer term, the government will need to break the Camtel monopoly. Reliable, inexpensive, available internet is a necessity, not a luxury.

I am also tired of hearing the security argument.

If government had any concern for consumer safety with independent internet providers, they would ban bars, alcohol, cigarettes, betting, and many other products that have a more deleterious effect on consumers. The truth is that they don't care about consumers.

The only security the government is concerned with is theirs. They want to continue to have full control over the internet and disconnect at will, as they did in 2017 in the North West and South West for a full 93 days.

Their problem with Starlink is that the simplicity, the reliability, the low cost of the solution only highlights the incompetence of those in charge of our internet access. Rather than embracing the Starlink, approving it so that they can collect taxes on it, get internet access into remote areas of the country where fiber or mobile access is impossible, they ban it.

There are solutions. There are fast solutions. These are political and not technical problems. Let them unleash our internet, and see the resulting economic growth that will ensue.
#UnleashOurInternet