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The Federal Government has taken important steps to fortify Nigeria’s innovation capableness done the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ecosystem successful bid to accelerate the country’s improvement successful the planetary integer translation era.
This was the absorption of a two-day league connected The Global Sustainable Technology and Innovation Community (G-STIC) and Masterclass connected Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem, Systems Thinking and System Dynamics that commenced astatine the National Assembly Library, Abuja, connected Tuesday.
This year’s league with the theme, “Powering the Next Generation of Innovation,” was organised by the National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM) and the National Board for Technology Incubation (NBTI), nether the supervision of the Ministry of Innovation Science and Technology (FMIST).
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Esuabana Nko-Asanye, successful her remarks, noted that the league presents a unsocial accidental to fortify the nationalist innovation ecosystem, physique the nation’s artificial quality capacity, and integrate systems reasoning into policymaking and improvement readying processes.
She said, “Through this G-STIC platform, we are portion of a planetary assemblage moving to fast-track the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by applying precocious technologies, strategical foresight, and innovation-based solutions.
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming each sector-agriculture, health, education, energy, and governance. It has the imaginable to optimize production, foretell clime risks, heighten argumentation efficiency, and make wholly caller forms of worth successful the integer economy.”
She noted, however, that beyond the exertion itself, what makes AI genuinely transformative is the mindset and systems reasoning that usher its application. She added that Systems Thinking fosters the interconnectedness of social, economic, and biology systems and enables the federation to plan policies and programs that are not lone technically sound, but besides socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable.
She assured that the authorities is implementing bold initiatives aimed astatine strengthening Nigeria’s nationalist innovation strategy done evidence-based policies and inter-agency collaboration.
She added that the authorities is supporting the improvement of a robust AI ecosystem successful Nigeria done the ongoing National Artificial Intelligence Strategy framework, portion promoting exertion incubation and commercialization done the NBTI network.
She stressed that the authorities is driving clime enactment and greenish innovation done institutions similar NACETEM, which are aligning nationalist STI priorities with the Paris Agreement and Agenda 2063 of the African Union.
Director General of NACETEM, Dr Olushola Odusanya , successful his remarks said Nigeria tin harness the accidental to code analyzable nationalist and determination challenges successful energy, nutrient systems, healthcare, education, governance, and clime change.
He said “Artificial Intelligence is nary longer an abstract concept; it is transforming industries, creating caller concern models, and redefining however nations vie and collaborate. Meanwhile, Systems Thinking and Systems Dynamics are enabling governments and institutions to recognize analyzable interactions, plan much coherent policies, and expect systemic risks.”
He added that the league was aimed to fortify Nigeria’s relation successful the planetary AI and Systems Thinking ecosystem – ensuring that researchers, policymakers, and industries are not near down successful shaping the 4th concern revolution.
According to him, the league besides demonstrates cross-sectoral applications of AI, Systems Thinking, and Systems Dynamics successful addressing pressing challenges successful vigor access, agriculture, health, education, and clime resilience.
“It besides provides a nationalist level for argumentation dialog and cognition co-creation, bringing unneurotic legislators, authorities agencies, backstage innovators, and improvement partners to forge strategies that accelerate the accomplishment of the SDGs,” helium said.
The Director General of NBTI Kazeem Kolawola Raji said the bureau aligns with Nigeria’s improvement strides successful each sectors stressing that the bureau is besides investing to harness the talents of the younker successful acquisition institutions to boost their innovative and technological skills.
The league was designed to fortify collaboration betwixt government, industry, academia, and civilian society, portion creating enabling policies that foster innovation and exertion entrepreneurship to champion the acceleration of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria.
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