WTM Presents: Voices from Web3Bridge Cohort 12 (Episode 4)

0:00As a developer um I have a lot of things to achieve but one is providing solution using what I know the knowledge especially the web three knowledge the blockchain knowledge to solve problem trying to like transform some of the web 2 app into web 3 because web 3 um blockchain is providing um scalability security and transparency Hello everyone, my name is Iod Jawusheka. I’m the founder at Bridge. Over the last 5 and a half years, has been training amazing developers in Nigeria and in Africa. Trust me, Port 12 was amazing. We had 74 guys into the court, 39 guys from the court. They are intense. But then is going to be bigger

0:48than this 12 court because everyone guys apply from Cameroon, from Togo, from Kenya, from Zimbabwe, from Uganda. And yes, Nigeria is not left out. Trust me, don’t want to miss the experience. Today I’m chilling with Masio and his team at W the Media. They’re speaking with the guys that just finished from the court. Make sure you watch that. As we see here at W the Media in 3 2 1, how bro?

1:12I’m good. Uh-huh. Look at you. Okay. Do you want to introduce yourself? Tell us your name, where you’re from here in Nigeria and your tribe.

1:20Okay. I’m Kamos Sukoy. I’m from Anra state and IU by tribe. And uh can you tell us a little about your background and how you got to update the bridge?

1:30Okay. Um I got into tech when I was in the university and uh that was towards my final year. I met a friend and a brother Kasujuku. So he taught me the web two basics before I left for NYC. So after that we keep in touch discussing talking and when he came here he was part of the course 7 I think. So after that he keep telling me about blockchain and web 3. So he said I should look into it. So um early this year late last year I have to like give it a shot. I applied and I passed the test and I was invited

2:08to come over. when I told him he was very very happy and I say I should go that is a good shot. So when I came here um I wouldn’t say that um what I saw here wasn’t what I was expecting you because I saw a lot of things. I saw the union the togetherness the unity the brotherhood and the teaching like taking me from where I’m where I am to where I’m supposed to be. Like it was a lot of good experience being here.

2:42How would you say you experience the mentorship being here? You speak about the brotherhood, about the camaraderie. Yeah. Like how do the mentors fit into your experience this community?

2:49Okay. I would say that my cohort is very blessed because when we came we met the senior guys, the alumni, some of the alumni they are here for master class 8k. So if we en encounter any problem, we used to run to them. the way they like take their time to break it down to make sure that we understand what the problem we are facing is and how to tackle it. They will guide you through and they will ensure that you get it done. So and even the owner of three bridge like when you go to him for any problem he will also come down. You’ll

3:23be talking to you like your own senior brother. So you see that there’s a unity. So even with the staffs and everybody and your team members, everybody when they come here, the unity and the togetherness is wow. Yeah.

3:38Oh yeah. And I’m curious what did you hope to achieve coming here? Like what what are the goals for you? Yeah. As a developer um I have a lot of things to achieve but one is providing solution like to any problem existing problem like using what I know the knowledge especially the web three knowledge the blockchain knowledge to solve problem or trying to like transform some of the web two app into web 3 because web 3 um blockchain is providing um scalability security and transparency. So this is not where you like rush to the bank saying that you made a transaction and he failed. Everything is on chain. You see your

4:15transaction if you fail or went through you see everything there. I’m curious do you feel like blockchain is important for Africa at large? Very very important. Very very important because um I I won’t say but we need transparency in Africa.

4:31Yeah. No I understand. I understand. Yeah. That’s beautiful. And you all have been just completing this cohort now. You all are working on projects. I’m curious what what have you been working on? What solutions have you been designing?

4:41Yeah, we me and my team have been working on um projects. So, we have a we have two projects but we are working on one now. The other one work on it after we left here after we leave here rather. Then um the one we are working on now is more like um is a platform where you can gift someone like a gifting platform but we don’t want to call it a gifting platform. So where you can generate something like a gift card, you can give it out for to someone or you can also give it out to like an employee like an incentive or maybe an encouragement to

5:15like or appreciation and uh you can also give it out as a merch a program tech um conference. So that is what we are building on.

5:23Listen and what would your advice be to someone who is a web two developer and not really sure whether or not web two is for them?

5:29Okay. Um, I won’t um advise the person anything, but I’ll just tell the person it’s either web three bridge or web three bridge. Booyah. Um, okay. Well, thank you. And to kind of wrap up, we like to say Booya here at We Them Media. And I’m curious, how do you think we spell Booyah? Okay. Booyah. Capital B 0 Y A H.

5:52Okay. Okay. You say so. You want to count it down and we can say it? 1 2 3 Booyah.