Science & Tech
THE National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM) on Friday said that the deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in public sector would promote efficiency and accurate data gathering for economic growth.
The Director-General, NACETEM, Dr Olusola Odunsanya, said this in an interview with newsmen while highlighting the opportunities of AI in the public sector.
Odunsanya said that data gathered from different sources helps in policy framework and decision making in government.
“If one looks at the deployment of artificial intelligence in civil service, in recent times, a lot of reforms has been carried out,” he said.
He said that such reforms include professionalism, data driven identification and the Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS) that is linked to human resources.
‘’These data comes in different ways due to data collected from different sources and helps the government in planning.
‘’When you juxtapose the development in the public service reforms, it now indicates to you that government will be able to take data driven informed decisions and the application of Artificial intelligence makes it faster.
‘’In spite the recent reforms the public sector is far beyond in the deployment of these technologies and these are the things we need,’’ he said.
According to him, it is the technologies of our time that will define the future of fourth industrial revolution.
“With the deployment of these technologies, the future of work is one that will be remote work.
”E-commerce and e-governance will be important and a lot of data economy generated.
“Perhaps the data economy is the biggest economy that Nigeria will experience.
“It is fine that Nigerian government and its functionaries and the paraphernalia of government realise that our wealth may not be oil anymore but will be in e-commerce and data, which will be a huge data economy that is emerging.
“So, we need to prepare ourselves; get ready and begin to train the critical manpower that is going to be involved.”
NACETEM is an agency of the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, vested with the mandate of training and developing middle to high level manpower and conducting policy research in the areas of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) management for all tiers of government and the private sector. (NAN)
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-January 12, 2023 @ 15:17 GMT|
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