please what does tech nation mean by peer recongniton or hasnt been recongnised by his or her peers. what type of evidence will this require
What context was it used.
@tunde1234 Whilst I cannot speak for Tech Nation, the guidance should help us answer this question. An example of MC and OC evidence as listed on Tech Nation guidance are quoted respectively.
Outside of your normal day-to-day job role, you led or were a significant contributor to a substantial open-source project, as evidenced from compilation of code commit summaries, repo stars or similar metrics such as download statistics, where possible.
Your GitHub profile demonstrating active participation in a collaborative project
All contributions (for example to an open-source project, GitHub, or Stack Overflow profile etc.) must demonstrate a consistent and ongoing track record of contributions to the sector. Contributions which have been made solely to support the timing of your application are unacceptable.
From the above, I’ve had applicants ask me: both MC and OC allow GitHub contributions, so “I will just put a few here and the rest there.” But it does not work like that.
For MC, you want to show that you led (authored) a project, plugin, or framework that other experts like yourself (peers) liked, forked, downloaded, or adopted. This shows that what you did is valuable to other experts like yourself, and they acknowledge and agree. This shows recognition of what you did by your peers.
For OC2, you want to show that you consistently contributed to relevant open-source projects or tools created or authored by several authors, individuals, frameworks, or platforms that are useful to other people in the sector. The downloads, stars, and adoption here show the relevance too. So think of contributions to a component library for Figma, VS Code for GitHub and what have we. It doesn’t have to be very popular, but it should be useful and contributions should be substantial and ongoing.
So, simply put, peer recognition is when you led, authored, or did something that your peers acknowledge and use.Hence being “Invited to national kids broadcast platform” can show contribution for OC2, depending on the context but will not show recognition for MC, and it will, if it were to be “Invited to national Developers broadcast platform” - You must indeed be a recognised expert, if you are invited to speak to other experts (Peer recognition)
All the best.
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