Tech
ZEUSTEK ICT, a software developing company, has trained 300 women in Plateau on Artificial Intelligence (AI), to enhance their business visibility.
Mr Timothy Dakey, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Zeusteks ICT Solutions, disclosed this on Wednesday in Jos, at the company’s official launch of JUMMAl AI application.
Dakey said the free training was the company’s way of giving back to society and ensuring that women were empowered in the technological sector.
He noted that women, especially those from the northern part of the country were marginalised, and so the training would encourage women to leverage on the use of AI in improving their businesses.
“We discovered that the trend in technology is advancing, but adoption in Africa is slow so we came up with this free training in AI to promote their business,“ Dakey said.
He further said that Zeustek launched JUMMAI.AI, a generative artificial intelligence application developed in Hausa language, aimed at addressing the business needs of women in Northern Nigeria.
“The content of the APP is also fashioned to train and empower women with requisite digital skills, making them globally competitive like their pairs in other climes,’ he said.
Earlier, Prof. Goselle Nanjul, Plateau’s Commissioner for Science, Technology and Innovation, commended Zeustek for the initiative.
Nanjul, said that the company’s vision aligned with the seven points agenda of Gov. Caleb Mutfwang, which was chiefly predicated on leveraging on technological tools in enhancing people’s lives in the state.
He said that the training would help ease the administration’s quest to utilising E-Governance, E-Learning, E-Commerce, and Digital Economy, thereby enhancing efficiency.
He expressed the government’s continuous commitment to providing an enabling environment for technology to thrive in the state.
Nanjul further charged beneficiaries to take advantage of the training to improve their livelihoods, and the society at large.
Some of the beneficiaries who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said the training was absolutely free and they were now using the tools to improve their businesses.
Mrs Uche Francis, who sells electrical appliances, said she had made huge sales leveraging on online outlets.
Asumata Anzaku, another beneficiary, said her food stuff business was now online and growing by the day.
Similarly, miss Favour Objewho, said the training was worthwhile as her food business was now making waves globally and she now had more customers. (NAN)
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May 16, 2024
