Kwara govt backs BBYDI’s AI Literacy project for schools

By Demola Akinyemi, Ilorin

The Kwara authorities authorities has expressed beardown enactment for the AI Literacy for Everyday People project, a nationwide inaugural by the Brain Builders Youth Development Initiative (BBYDI) with enactment from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.

The inaugural is aimed astatine equipping Nigerians with the cognition to understand, use, and prosecute ethically with artificial intelligence.

Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Dr. Lawal Olohungbebe said this
during a courtesy sojourn to the Commissioner successful Ilorin, by the BBYDI team, led by Communications Director Sanni Alausa-Issa.

Olohungbebe who commended BBYDI’s innovative approach, peculiarly its program to bid teachers and integrate AI literacy materials into existing curricula, described the inaugural arsenic “a timely and forward-looking effort that complements the Federal Government’s caller program betterment and aligns with Kwara State’s imaginativeness for 21st-century education.”

He further encouraged BBYDI to formalise its collaboration with the Ministry done a memorandum of knowing (MoU), noting that the authorities welcomes partnerships that physique teachers’ capableness and amended integer competence successful schools.

Speaking during the visit, Sanni Alausa-Issa emphasised that the AI Literacy for Everyday People task is designed to marque artificial quality accessible and understandable to each Nigerians careless of age, literacy level, oregon location.

“Our attack is to marque AI relatable,” Alausa-Issa said, stressing that “We are producing vigor dramas successful section languages, illustrated handbooks, and flashcards for superior and secondary schools. We are besides grooming teachers, parents, and younker assemblage champions to guarantee that what is learned is passed connected sustainably.”

He added that the project, which has the endorsement of the Kwara and Osun State Ministries of Education, aims to empower citizens to usage AI responsibly, fostering creativity, ethical awareness, and inclusion.

Sanni besides outlined the organisation’s ongoing efforts to beforehand inclusive AI acquisition crossed the country.

The courtesy sojourn was portion of BBYDI’s collaboration with authorities governments to localise AI acquisition and align with Nigeria’s caller nationalist curriculum, which places renewed accent connected skills, creativity, and integer awareness.

In a related improvement the authorities Commissioner for Youth Development, Ambassador Ndanusa Usman Shehu, besides applauded the AI Literacy for Everyday People task of the Brain Builders Youth Development Initiative (BBYDI), describing it arsenic “a important measurement towards preparing young Nigerians for the realities of a integer world.”

The endorsement came during different courtesy sojourn by the BBYDI squad to the Commissioner successful Ilorin, wherever discussions centred connected collaboration to beforehand artificial quality education, younker empowerment, and ethical exertion usage crossed Kwara State.

Amb. Shehu commended the organisation’s effort to “domesticate AI” by making it accessible done storytelling, assemblage engagement, and local-language resources.

He assured the squad of the Ministry’s readiness to spouse with BBYDI to scope younker groups, innovation clusters, and schools crossed the state.

“This inaugural is timely. We cannot proceed to speech astir younker improvement without preparing our young radical for the technological aboriginal that is already here,” helium said. “The Ministry is unfastened to moving with you to guarantee much young radical recognize AI and usage it responsibly.”

He besides praised BBYDI’s absorption connected ethical education, saying that exertion should not lone beryllium learned but utilized safely and responsibly—a connection that resonates with the Ministry’s broader younker empowerment agenda.

During the visit, BBYDI’s Communications Director, Sanni Alausa-Issa, presented an overview of the AI Literacy for Everyday People project, noting that it is designed to marque AI understandable and usable for each Nigerians—regardless of education, language, oregon entree level.

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