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Digital Solutions, besides known arsenic DIGISOL Project funded by the European Union towards enhancing agrarian cultivation practices done digitalization, has advocated public-private collaboration successful achieving sustainable integer innovation hub successful the country.
DIGISOL Project, during a two-day store it organised for stakeholders astatine the University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (UAES), Umuagwo, Imo State, besides launched DIGISOL Mobile App to alteration farmers execute efficient, sustainable and astute cultivation practices.
In his address, the DIGISOL task manager and vice-chancellor of UAES, Prof. Christopher Eze, said that the store was important to harness ideas among stakeholders truthful arsenic to amended practices for farmers and tiny and mean standard enterprises, pointing to the theme: “Strengthening Knowledge Transfer Between Universities, Tech Hubs and SMEs.”
Eze explained that: “DIGISOL Project is some probe and assistance to farmers who signifier successful distant areas of Nigeria, peculiarly the 3 sampled states of Imo, Ogun and Kwara,” expressing optimism for enlargement to different states.
He added that integer solutions which the task champions for farmers was cardinal successful ensuring that the people beneficiaries person entree to improved knowledge, funding, and networking for seamless buying of inputs arsenic good arsenic selling of their products.
Also speaking, the DIGISOL Project Team Lead, Mr. Chris Addy-Nayo, asserted that deficiency of collaborations was liable for constricted results successful assorted aspects of the country.
He opined that bringing unneurotic world communities with their capacities successful research, backstage assemblage players and the authorities which makes policies to dialog and find communal crushed was bully to heighten farming, probe and innovations that bring solutions to the problems of the society.
Similarly, the DIGISOL Project nationalist co-ordinator, Prof. Chinasaokwu Onyemauwa, underscored the value of the workshop, adding that the result would beryllium utilized to amended SMEs and cultivation practices successful the country.
The representatives from spouse Institutions, Dr. Ajala Tajudeen(Al-Hikmah University, Kwara State, and Dr. Folasade Oke(Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State), emphasised the request for Nigeria to accommodate Western practices by digitalizing SMEs and cultivation operations to curb nutrient insecurity.
Meanwhile, the DIGISOL Project ICT director, Dr. Leonard Orji, portion introducing the mobile exertion to the participants, disclosed that the thought was conceived to leverage opportunities provided by integer innovations. He noted that the integrated level with assorted components would payment farmers and cooperatives nether the project.
An ICT advisor to the project, Mr. Destiny Brotobo, demonstrated the usage of the app, offering a glimpse into however users would payment done entree to accusation connected clime conditions, seasonal tips, funding, networking and selling of products among others.
Lectures delivered during the store centred connected gathering inclusive ecosystems, Nigeria’s adaptation of European innovative models, instauration of existent interaction done cognition transfer, acceleration of SMEs done gathering of innovation hubs, promotion of argumentation alignment among stakeholders and strengthening of indigenous creativity.
Some of the speakers include, caput general, SERN Startup Europe Regions Network, European Commission, Chiara Frencia, the co-ordinator of FI4INN, Claudia Baracchini, the DIGISOL Project Telecon Expert, Engr. Emmanuel Amadi and the wide manager, Imo Digital City, Barr. Stella Ezendukaamong others. The participants described the store arsenic enriching and productive.
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