Nigeria is a vast, complex country facing myriad challenges, not the least of which are climate-induced and other natural disasters, but new tech is in the works that can help model and predict nature’s fury and cushion its impact. ML engineer Jacia Ebubechi gives the lowdown.

AI implementation has not kept pace with tech breakthroughs since procedures to ethically manage privacy during data collection and use are cumbersome and opaque. ML engineer and creative technical writer Jacia Ebubechi offers some pointers and encouragement for the AI hesitant.

All the fanfare over AI and its potential obscures its actual capabilities. Such misconceptions must be appropriately addressed so that the razzmatazz and the high expectations it engenders do not part company with reality, according to ML engineer Jacia Ebubechi.

Quality of healthcare and its outcomes have long lagged in Nigeria. Sluggish AI adoption, above all in data management, is partly to blame. Solving this problem would also do much to tackle other problems confronting Africa’s top economy and most populous nation.