 So my name is Omoale David Asheru, I'm the country director for Andela in Nigeria. Andela is a software engineering company, we like to say that we connect brilliance with opportunity and so we find, we develop, we train software engineers and then match them to companies around the world you know doing a lot of stuff through technology in a nutshell, that's what we do. So in terms of golden, the global skills gap and closing that what is this skills gap? So for me the way I see the skills gap is basically the gap between what skills employers are looking for in employees and the skills that employees or job seekers are being trained or prepared for and there's a gap, there's a huge gap and it's really rising. So closing that gap for me, I don't know that we can ever close it, so for me it's really about building a bridge between those two things. Brilliance, opportunity, connecting it and so that's what Andela also tries to do and how do we do that? So the skills gap is in the way it's defined, it's really two major things, there's the technical skills, so technical skills are like the hard skills you know what you do, medicine, cap entry, whatever and then there's the soft skills which are the things that are not so quantifiable you know those are more difficult to train on communication, leadership and so in terms of technical skills, my industry is technology but why that is very unique is because unlike other industries where the technical skills are just sort of for the industry, technology is an industry but it's an industry that cuts across every industry so even if you're in medicine, you're in cap entry, these days everything, the foundation is technology so we're sort of unique and so what that means is that for our skills you need technology skills not just to be in the technology industry but really to be in any industry and there is a gap so for instance for us one of the reasons Andela actually started was in terms of technologists, software engineers in the US for example for every five vacancies there's only one qualified person software engineering and so when you talk about all over the rest of the world Africa where we started and where we have a lot of operations you have a lot of brilliant people software engineers some who are not in fact but can be trained to do that and good enough because it's technology we're not limited by distance again that's one of the things that we push remote work so you're not limited by distance you're not limited by demography you can get the skills you need from wherever you know to fill the gaps that you have so what I said I'm bringing technology to the forefront because again like I said technology on like every other technical skill is not industry specific it's really the future of the world so regardless of where you have a skill gap regardless of what industry you need to look at technology and so that's really important to bring out in trying to solve or close the global skills gap also the model that we have run in Andela is typically for these skills you would be relying on education on people in education and what we're also realizing is there are lots of people that are outside the formal sector outside the formal age range they're just really outside but they need to still be a part of part of the discussion and so I'm just trying to show how Andela a company I mean and we're not a social enterprise we're for profit but we've seen that and we've had to also invest in that just basically building and developing people who do not fit into or who have even gone through the formal education sector but we realize that there are gaps in what is required for the future