The maiden edition of GITEX Nigeria, on Monday, opened in Abuja with strong calls for Africa to embrace artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and precision agriculture as tools to close the continents productivity gap and position it as a global innovation hub.
Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, in his keynote address, said Africa must adopt AI models that reflect its unique realities, including local languages, health systems, and farming practices.
There is a world where Africa will bring diversity into AI. For ChatGPT or any other model to be strong, it must understand the reality of everyone, Tijani said.
