LAGOS, NG, Jan 1, 2024 – (ACN Newswire) – Some 20+ years in the past, in what eager observers have described as a “leapfrog” and as “the telecom revolution”, Nigeria leapfrogged from 400 thousand landlines to 80 million cellular traces in months. It stays the biggest singular developmental stride Nigeria has taken in its 63 years of existence. Structured mass adoption of latest expertise enabled Nigeria to avoid regular step-by-step processes to reach at its vacation spot forward of time, and forward of others who have been there earlier than them within the Telecom Trade.
Deploying comparable methods, Nigeria can obtain comparable outcomes in Clear Vitality and Energy, and in several areas of Know-how. Take Synthetic Intelligence (AI). McKinsey estimates that by the 12 months 2030, the worldwide AI financial system will probably be at $16 trillion yearly. (That is bigger than your entire American financial system!)
So what is going to it take for Nigeria to stamp the AI revolution like we did within the Telecoms revolution?
I put this query to Ray Sharma just a few weeks in the past over dinner in an artsy and eclectic restaurant in London’s Tech Metropolis or Silicon Roundabout. Ray is considered one of earth’s most aggressive Know-how Enterprise Capitalists with successes that embody Expedia and Tinder. Ray agreed with me that primarily, it should take human useful resource.
Human useful resource is Nigeria’s considerable blessing. After India and China, Nigeria has the very best variety of expert Tech workforce within the diaspora. That is a military ready to be unleashed on the revolutionary gateway.
What in regards to the in-country inhabitants? A whopping 160 million youth – under the age of 35. The overwhelming majority of whom are good, hungry, revolutionary, and trainable. Such a useful resource wealth can catapult any nation on earth when intention and technique align. Recruit them and funnel them into Frontier Applied sciences. AI. Blockchain. Robotics. IoT, and the like.
Ought to Nigeria unleash her potential upon the AI house, with a modest ambition to seize 0.1% of the worth of that rising trade, in simply 5 years, she would have created a $16 billion a 12 months trade. And from simply AI! Add Blockchain Know-how, Fintech, IoT, Robotics, Clear Tech, Methanol and Hydrogen Manufacturing, and so on, then you definitely start to envisage a horizon of countless potentialities.
What’s my level?
Along with her large, younger, good, revolutionary and teachable workforce, plus a seemingly insatiable world tech market, Nigeria might create the type of various nationwide wealth and financial system that may dwarf her complete funds and current financial system.
Know-how permits us to leapfrog, to ship a Know-how revolution, and create a brand new Nigeria with our worldwide companions.
EdenBase (with Domineum) is partnering with us to create Tech Ecosystems prefer it did with London Tech Metropolis and in Switzerland. We’re constructing out manufacturing capability for Methanol and EV lithium-ion batteries. These will lay the inspiration for our proposed AI-driven Renewable Sensible Mini Grids to energy our Innovation Parks and Tech Cities plus set off huge manufacturing (Additive and Inexperienced) in partnership with Germany’s IMAPS Institute for Materials Purposes. We’re constructing out the BPO (and different outsourcing) trade and can companion to arrange thousands and thousands of Nigerian youth for careers in numerous technology-driven areas starting from the mushy (information, AI, blockchain, and so on) to the onerous ({hardware} expertise, welding, digital manufacturing, and so on). We now have partnered to develop and launch the world’s first mass V2X mission the place we manufacture/assemble Electrical Autos (EV), powered by Renewable Vitality (RE) with bi-directional charging/discharging capabilities that permits your EV to behave as a generator that powers houses or factories after performing its ‘automotive duties’ of ferrying you round. Now that is what a leapfrog seems to be like.
Clear power and Clever RE Minigrids – powering and driving manufacturing. Productive Tech ecosystems – partnering world class establishments to set off revolutionary startups on scale. These will drive the unleashing of the creativity of Nigeria’s huge, good, revolutionary and youthful inhabitants. They, in flip will drive the emergence of the brand new Nigerian financial system, unbiased of fossil fuels, and constructed on the altar of Innovation, Science & Know-how.
In 2024, Nigeria is really open for enterprise – the Enterprise of Know-how, Clear Know-how. Those that missed the alternatives unearthed by Nigeria’s telecom revolution some two-decades in the past, now have the chance to get on board this endless Tech Revolution within the largest untapped single market on planet earth.
Is it potential to ship these and extra on scale? Can Nigeria leapfrog her strategy to close to the entrance of the road in clear power and energy era, inexperienced manufacturing and outsourcing?
You wager!
And in Nigeria’s Ministry of Innovation, Science and Know-how, Minister Uche Nnaji is betting on it too.
Contact:
Emeka Orjih, MBA (Wharton), Technical Adviser on Worldwide Cooperation & Finance to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Know-how, Nigeria. emeka.orjih@scienceandtech.gov.ng
The Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Know-how, Nigeria is without doubt one of the strategic Ministries of Authorities with the duty of facilitating the event and deployment of Modern Science and Know-how to boost the tempo of Socio-economic improvement of the nation. www.scienceandtech.gov.ng
Matter: Analysis / Trade Report
Supply: Nigerian Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology / FMIST
Sectors: Every day Finance, Digitalization, Training, Synthetic Intel [AI], Authorities, Startups
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