Stephanie Itimi

Entrepreneur and InfoSec Researcher

Stephanie Itimi is a digital entrepreneur who is enthusiastic about internet education and security. She founder of Seidea, a career development platform with a social mission of helping Black and Minority Ethnic women build cyber-security careers and Seiarto, a luxury postcard company, with a focus on West African art. Outside of entrepreneurship, she is a PhD research student in Information Security, based within the CDT in Cyber Security at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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I create future proof companies and projects to improve digital literacy and in turn economic development.Current Work Portfolio:Seidea: a career development platform with a social mission of helping Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women build cyber-security careers.Seiarto: a luxury postcard company, with a focus on West African art.Seipod: a monthly podcast focused on empowering BME women with the cybersecurity knowledge needed to be secure online.Seicode: a virtual coding club sponsored by Google for BME Girls 9-16.

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About

Stephanie has a track record of supporting global initiatives and was part of the BBC World Service team that developed the world's first public health information service on the WhatsApp platform. Tackling false Ebola news, Stephanie led a data restructuring project which supplied text, pictures and audio to over 16,000 consumers in West Africa, as well as through partners such as UNICEF, the World Health Organisation, the World Food Program and the Centre for Disease Control.She has also played a significant role in the development and manufacturing of high-profile initiatives in Slovakia, Morocco, the United Kingdom and several West and East African nations through her diverse consultative experience with Culture Fez, Balloon Ventures, UN Women and the European Commission, promoting freedom of data, digital literacy, financial empowerment and gender equality. She is the author of two academic books entitled "The informal sector in Nigeria and its effect on development” and “ Postmodern Nigeria: A Socio-Economic Analysis”.Stephanie holds a BA in Economics from Coventry University and an MSc in Global Economic Governance and Policy from SOAS, University of London.

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