Data Scientists Network to Train 1m Nigerians, Enable 2bn Africans

Emma Okonji

Data Scientists Network (DSN) formerly known as Data Science Nigeria has restated its commitment to train one million Nigerians in digital skills and impact two billon people from the African emerging markets with its technology solutions in the areas of health, agriculture and other sectors that will enhance the quality of people from the African emerging markets in the next five years.

Aside training, DSN has developed technology solutions that are driving business operations in organisations and financial institutions like the banks.

DSN made the commitment in Lagos recently, while celebrating five years of its operations in Nigeria as a technology training platform.
Founder and CEO of Data Scientist Network, Dr, Bayo Adekanmbi, while thanking his team for their commitment in the last five years, said DSN would continue to impact on learners in Nigeria and beyond, having established its presence in 49 countries.

“From January next year, we will restructuring our learning platform into a centralised learning platform, where all our established centres around the world can connect as we will build weekly learning platform that anyone, anywhere can connect to. We will be partnering with global experts in different parts of the world to facilitate the initiative. The idea is to change the narrative of emerging markets and position Nigeria as the centralised learning hub,” Adekanmbi said.

Addressing the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on technology solutions, Adekanmbi explained that AI would not only enhance Information and Communications Technology (ICT), but it would also increase productivity in agriculture, telecommunications, manufacturing and other sectors of the Nigerian economy.

“Application of AI will help to increase economic output in services and industry, especially in agriculture. If AI is applied in agriculture, for instance, it will help reduce a lot of wastage that is currently being experienced by farmers. Robotics, Machine Learning (ML), Augmented Reality (AR), Internet of Things (IoT), are all technology solutions that make use of AI in their operations. While robots work with AI, we use AI to collect data for IoT operations. Machine learning is about how machines interact and communicate with each other with the support of AI,” Adekanmbi said.