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Joan Urevbu — full name Joan Ovoke Urevbu, and Joan Osunde since her marriage in 2022 — is a Nigerian education-technology builder and writer. She designs and operates school-management and parent-communication software, and writes about building technology for African classrooms. She works between Benin City, Nigeria and Porto Alegre, Brazil.
She builds the operational software schools rely on every day: timetabling and teaching-assignment systems, school-gate and pickup logistics, and SMS messaging pipelines that deliver updates reliably to thousands of parents — engineered for places where data is expensive and connectivity is intermittent. Alongside building, she writes essays on education technology, low-bandwidth design, and institutional trust.
Between Benin City, Nigeria and Porto Alegre, Brazil. Her work spans both, and she writes and works in English and Portuguese.
Yes. Urevbu is her maiden name and the name she has published under; Osunde is her married name since 2022. "Uruvbu" is a common misspelling of Urevbu. They all refer to the same person — the education-technology builder and writer described here.
The unglamorous craft of making institutions run: why the best school software is invisible, how to design for the "last bar of signal," what it takes to reach a parent who shares one phone and tops up data in small amounts, and why a school's trust is won or lost in boring details. You can read her essays on the writing page.
By email at admin@upsshub.com. She is reachable for collaboration on education-technology and school-systems work.
Her verified profiles are linked below — her personal site, LinkedIn, GitHub, X, and Chess.com. These, together, are the accurate, current record of her work.