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The Nigeria Communication Satellite tv for pc (NIGCOMSAT) has stated digital transformation and innovation might flip the Nigerian economic system round and deal with rising degree of youth unemployment.
NIGCOMSAT additionally stated plans have been underway to determine the regional centre for Synthetic Intelligence (AI) on the UNN.
Managing Director and Chief Government Officer of NIGCOMSAT, Jane Nkechi Egerton-Idehen, made this identified yesterday, whereas delivering the twentieth Herbert Macaulay Memorial Lecture organised by the College of Engineering on the College of Nigeria Nsukka Nsukka.
In her tackle titled, “Championing innovation: Digital transformation and financial diversification in Nigeria,” Egerton-Idehen stated over-reliance on the oil sector had created a weak economic system in Nigeria.
She confused the necessity for Nigerians to embrace digital transformation which offers numerous alternatives for progress.
“We see how a lot digital transformations have additional enhanced sectors like Monetary and Insurance coverage (Monetary Establishments); Commerce; Agriculture (Crop manufacturing); Manufacturing (Meals, Beverage & Tobacco); Development; and Actual Property, amongst others,” she stated.
She famous that it was in step with the imaginative and prescient to diversify the economic system by means of digital transformation that the Nigerian authorities determined to determine centres for Synthetic Intelligence.