Short bio:
“Sadibou SOW is an educational technology consultant who has more than 10 years of experience in the fields of education and pedagogy. He is the founder of the Webber Institute of Technology.”
Long bio:
“Sadibou SOW was born in Gabon to a Senegalese father and a Beninese mother. His passion for technology started early when at the age of 6 years old, he programed his first video game on his father’s computer. Later, he studied software design in South Africa, where he spent 4 years, before moving to Senegal in 2007.
Sadibou’s career took a turn towards education in 2009 when he assumed the role of a part-time programming lecturer at various schools and universities in Dakar. It was during this period that his affinity for the education sector started to bloom.
In 2011, he took a significant entrepreneurial leap by founding INAOTA, an IT services agency that would later collaborate with renowned corporations such as Microsoft, Orange, SANOFI, and Samsung.
INAOTA is behind AfriqueITNews.com (the platform has since been acquired), which was once the most influential technological news platform in francophone Africa and the “AfriqueITNews Forum” that he and his team organized at “La Gaîté Lyrique” in Paris.
INAOTA is also behind one of the first coding schools in Africa, the “DevAcademie”.
In 2016, Sadibou was chosen among tens of thousands of applicants to spend some time improving his entrepreneurial skills in the USA, as part of the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI), which was punctuated by a town hall meeting hosted by former US President Barack OBAMA.
During his stay in Boston, he was lucky enough to witness the best of tertiary education at prestigious universities like Harvard and MIT. With this experience heavy in his mind, after he returned to Senegal, he felt it was time for him to focus his energy on his educational endeavours.
In 2016, the 3 years long journey for the “Webber Institute of Technology” (WIT) to open its doors began.
Meanwhile, as the school’s walls were being built and with more time on his hands, Sadibou decided to apply to work for Amnesty International as a regional technologist covering West and Central Africa. He spent two years there, helping to improve the global human rights organization and its partner’s digital literacy, from January 2018 to January 2020.
Today, Sadibou Sow is focusing on delivering the best education possible in the fields of technology at WIT.”