2023 Techies Week
2023 Kogi State Techies Day was organized by the Kogi State Chapter of the Nigeria Computer Society. Kingsley Femi Fanwo Cisca Oladipo Olumide Babatope Longe Nigeria Computer Society, Kogi State Chapter, Folusho Owoeye
2023 Kogi State Techies Day organized by the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) was held on the 28th of November 2023.
The hybrid attendance event was declared opened by the President of the Nigeria Computer Society, Dr Muhammad S. Aliyu FNCS, MCPN and graced with the representatives of government, led by the Kogi State Honourable Commissioner of Information and Communication; Chief Kingsley F. Fanwo, the Vice Chancellor of Thomas Adewumi University; Prof. Francisca O. Oladipo, the Dean, Faculty of Computational Sciences and Informatics, Academic City University College Accra Ghana; Prof. Olumide B. Longe, the National President of Nigeria Women in Information Technology (NIWIIT); Mrs Dele Bayo-Osubo and hosted by the Chairman of NCS, Kogi State Chapter; Dr. (Mrs) Oluwakemi S. Ayodele FNCS, MCPN. Other members of the professional body, that graced the event include Prof. Sunday E. Adewumi FNCS and Prof. Bamidele Oluwade FNCS.
Prof. Olumide Babatope Longe who was the keynote speaker, did justice to the theme of Techies Day; “Emerging Technologies,” and advised ICT professionals in Africa to take the lead in innovative solutions to shift from being a consumer continent to becoming productive.
The guest speaker, Prof. Oladipo summit that Large Language Models can be used to correct biases in Artificial Intelligence (AI) as evident in intelligent search engines such as ChatGPT. She observed from research that this recently trending AI database gives prominence to scholars and scholarly materials from the Global North West while undermining the contributions of the Global South.
The Zonal Coordinator (North Central) of NCS Mr Bayo. M. Onimode, enlightened the gathering about the challenges of local content development in Nigeria and proffered useful solutions for the domestication of ICT resources in Nigeria.
The State Coordinator of NIWIIT Miss Folusho Owoeye, added voice to the need to encourage school girls to embrace IT.
The IT Round Table was moderated by Dr. Ayodele and the discussion was on “AI and its Impact on Society: Collaboration between Industry and Academia.” The discussants were; Mr. Power A. Babaniyi, Founder, of Young Developers Hub, Mr. Alade T. Sunday of StartTechOne Nigeria Limited and Mr. Famous Onyema from BrainPals Innovation Technology.
The highlight of the occasion was the inauguration of the newly elected executives with Mr. Godwin Sani of the Federal University Lokoja as Chairman of NCS Kogi State for the next two years.
The duo of Mr. B. M. Onimode and Dr. Ayodele gave out awards of meritorious service to deserving members. Dr Ayodele commended GYB Model Secondary School Lokoja, Kogi State Polytechnic Lokoja and Confluence University of Science and Technology Osara, whose students were in attendance, while Mrs Bayo-Osubo gave goodwill messages.
Mr. Godwin Sani, the newly inaugurated Chairman gave the vote of thanks to all stakeholders to bring Techies Day to a close.