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VISION
To build a world-class Artificial Intelligence knowledge,
research and innovation ecosystem that delivers high
impact & transformational research, business use
applications, AI-first start-ups, employability and social
good use cases with global recognition for solution-
orientation, quality and excellence; such that in 10
years, Nigeria will become one of the top 10 AI
talent/knowledge destinations with 20% GDP
multiplier impact.
Effective use of data and analytics hold the keys to our
collective future
› The McKinsey Global Institute says that AI is contributing to a transformation of society
“happening 10X faster and at 300X the scale or at roughly 3,000X the impact” of the
Industrial Revolution.
› In a research conducted by Accenture, it was concluded that AI has the potential to double growth
rates in 12 developed countries by 2035. AI and Data Science are likely to have even more impact
in developing countries, solving problems in essential sectors such as Finance, Healthcare,
Agriculture etc.
› It is time for Africa to build the requisite capacity in Big Data, Machine Learning and Deep
Learning at a quantum that brings the best of academic research and industry application to solve
fundamental local problems
̶ “African PhD students or researchers working on artificial intelligence and quantum
computing to accelerate the structural transformation of their economies will invent the
future". Makhtar Diop, World Bank's Vice President of Africa
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/speech/2017/11/30/innovation-in-africa
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https://nextbillion.net/why-international-investors-should-look-to-africa-for-technological-innovation/
https://www.accenture.com/nz-en/insight-artificial-intelligence-future-growth, Tencent Research Institute
Teens all over the world are already redefining use of AI
Over the world there have been increasing demand and participation of kids in AI.
With over 500 AI-centric startups by teenagers, Tanmay Bakshi, 13-year-old prodigy taking IBM and
artificial intelligence by storm with over 20,000 views on his YouTube channel, another 15 year old sensation
training a neural net, 16 year old Harshit Sharma, a class 12th government school boy creating history as a
Google employee.
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China has now included Artificial Intelligence in secondary
school curriculum and Australia including AI in their
secondary school
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AI is now the basis for Global and National competitiveness and
we must prepare for this reality
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Data and its extension in AI is the leapfrog option to address
the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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AI in Africa by Africans to solve African problems
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Caveat Emptor:
You cannot shave a man’s hair in his
absence (MKO Abiola)
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High impact knowledge transfer must build on established
cultural and symbolic concepts e.g. from amulets to medical
wearables
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AI+ Researchers Forum
• AI+ Researcher Forum is aimed at raising the standard in research excellence for academic and industry researchers in
Machine & Deep Learning. The platform will provide an opportunity for budding researchers to learn from renowned and
experienced researchers through regular paper review sessions and one-on-one mentoring.
• On a monthly basis, the forum will select leading academic papers, published on leading platforms like arxiv.org or
presented at leading conferences (NeurIPS, ICML etc.) for a collective knowledge sharing review.
• The intent is to pre-read the papers and run a scheduled 3-hour dial-in session every last Sunday every month 6-9pm
Nigerian time.
• The forum will also hold an annual 5-day residential conference, holding as a stream within the 5-day AI bootcamp as an
academic research conclave to learn how to learn emerging theoretical principles, review papers and discuss new
research approaches for world-class research in AI
• The forum will also have an annual 1-day Meet-The-Industry poster session to showcase their latest research works for
industry partnership, support, endorsement and application. This will hold during the annual AI for Executive session.
• The forum will regularly mobilise and support community members to make paper/poster submissions at international
conferences.
• The Forum will provide regular grants and travel incentives to leading researchers to attend local and international
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Roadmap : Massive AI Knowledge programme and Ideas
Incubation
› AI+ Clubs in secondary schools and
universities
› AI Talent programme
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Proactive investment in the next generation
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200,000 Downloads …free ebook
www.datasciencenigeria.org/aisimplified
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MarkeTell collects predefined data from a panel sample across
the country
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Check4Me is a crowdsourced research community of local
residents who receives specific tasks like activity verification,
status update etc. and are expected to report back
immediately via picture, audio and video evidence.
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Agenda
› All roads lead to Data…
› Data…so what
»With so much data comes so much responsibility
› Building Truly African Learning models
› Solutioning AI
› World-class Continuous Capacity
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Medical AI for Africa: Low-cost replacement
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Precision farming in Nigeria with algorithmic Zenvus
Precision Farming
› Zenvus is an intelligent solution for farms that uses proprietary electronics
sensors to collect soil data like moisture, nutrients, pH etc., and send
them to a cloud server via GSM, satellite or Wifi. Algorithms in the server
analyze the data and advice farmers on farming. As the crops grow, the
system deploys special cameras to build vegetative health to help
detection of drought stress, pests and diseases. The data generated is
aggregated, anonymized and made available via subscription for agro-
lending, agro-insurance, commodity trading to banks, insurers and
investors
Biosurveillance
› Use different forms of data with spatiotemporal modelling to infer disease
risk across spatial field. As data points are seen, refine
estimates/predictions of risk (here for malaria)
Smartphone crop disease diagnosis
› Image classification implemented on $100 Android phone
› Disease vector counts are needed: an infuriating task when done manually.
We can also automate this count in software on the phone.
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Lifestyle: Lara.ng, a Nigerian chatbot that does more than
Google map for the low-income segment
› Lara.ng is a simple chat-based AI interface public transportation directions
and fare quotes in Lagos, Nigeria
› Lara.ng gives public transit directions to her users, majorly commuters in
Lagos, on-demand, 24/7.
› It is specifically created for public transit users, while the sister platform
myrp.ng is targeted at drivers and transit passengers.
› It’s aunched Lara on Whatsapp, so users are able to text a number and get
directions on WhatsApp
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Kudi.ai is another Nigerian chat-to-payment AI interface that
translates the trauma of payment into fun
Kudi uses an everyday conversational AI system to communicate with you. She helps you
transfer money, keep track of your account details, buy airtime, pay recurrent bills such
as GOTV, DSTV And PHCN and she also reminds you when some of this bills are due.
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Agenda
› All roads lead to Data…
› Data…so what
»With so much data comes so much responsibility
› Building Truly African Learning models
› Solutioning AI
› World-class Continuous Capacity
› Imperatives for Inclusive Growth
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Every African Data scientist must seek to play on global big league for best
practice whilst adapting learning for local use cases./earning
https://www.kaggle.com/bayoadekanmbi
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PhD research on RNN/LSTM driven Social pricing model based on SNA is
now a pre-approved patent on a Big Data product that uses customer
network
Social Pricing Recommender algorithm for low income Research publications on Big data application
prepaid telecommunication users using uncalled-called
numbers modelling (US62400186)
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Social Calling Recommender system
Total phone
numbers saved on
a phone
All the no. called All the no. uncalled
within 90 days within 90 days
1 Super Tie
A X X has been called
Medium Tie
B Y 3/4 Y has been called
C Z Basic Tie
2/4 Z has been called
D P No Tie 3
1/4 P has been called
2 0/4 FILTERING
All super/ medium ties are
Social Equity/person filtered for validity by checking
What relationship exists between each of similarity of ARPU, device type,
the uncalled phone numbers (X,Y,Z & P) and P&S with the main customer
the called phone numbers (A,B,C & D)
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In-App Push Notification
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RECOMMENDATION PRE-RECOMMENDATION
Social propensity:
→ Netǁork headrooŵ to offer disĐouŶts
Likelihood that a super/ medium tie mean Dear Bayo, You can
speak to Ade for the
→ CurreŶt offers eŶjoLJed ďLJĐustoŵers to
potential of higher social relationship next 30 mins at only avoid discount overload
N50. This is valid → Credit ďalaŶĐe- to be sure he has
between 10 am and money to spend as the offer is made
12 noon today
→ Last
sure thedaLJof outgoiŶg
customer aĐtiǀ to
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use
the offer
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Translating Insight into Business Impact
As General Manager,
Analytics 4 years ago!
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Build strong learning community
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Introducing
Data Science
Nigeria
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VISION
To build a world-class Artificial Intelligence knowledge,
research and innovation ecosystem that delivers high
impact & transformational research, business use
applications, AI-first start-ups, employability and social
good use cases with global recognition for solution-
orientation, quality and excellence; such that in 10
years, Nigeria will become one of the top 10 AI
talent/knowledge destinations with 20% GDP
multiplier impact.
Data Science Ecosystem : from training to value creation
Non-profit
Talent Talent
Talent Access
Enrichment Profit-making Deployment
Capacity Building Industry/Academic Leverage Job/platform Placement
• All-expense paid boot camps • Internship opportunities • Local/International Job placements: Guaranteed
• Inter-University ML Competition • Industry project participation through DSN Data placement and onboarding in leading local and
• DSN 100-day Machine Learning Study Scientist-on-demand programme international firms requiring well-trained data
package • PhD-level Academic research mentoring for AI- scientists
• Online free courses in partnership with related doctoral research
www.datacamp.com • Scholarship/Sponsorship support via institutional
partnership
DSN Talent to
enhancement students who want to scale up their AI/ML project
• Hackathons on industry projects as a start-up
• International hackathon mobilization/participation • Dataprenuerial AI/ML Start-Ups : incubating
Profit framework
research ideas into social enterprise or high-impact
business innovations
• Industry Sponsorship programme : Data access and
promotion of industry support for specific/relevant
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Our US ED status and Nigerian non-profit registration and
world-class Advisory Board
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10 of the 2nd Bootcamp attendees given employment by KPMG
Project Name: Unsupervised clustering of banking customers
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Rosemary Fadare Twitter Mining NLP Algorithm of Nigerian
slangs got a cash award and recognition
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Zainab Ishaq Musa wins the 2018 Hult Prize regional competition for
applying Machine learning to solve energy challenge.
Qualified for UK acceleration and Finals in the US for the US$1,000,000 pitch.
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Capacity-building bootcamp: fully residential and 100% free
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2nd Bootcamp: 4-day intensive learning/hackathon and
fully-free residential Bootcamp
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2018 in review
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Strategic Government and C-level engagement and involvement
Mr Afolabi
Imoukhuede, Senior
Special Assistant
Increasing
(SSA) to the Nigeria
government
President on Job
awareness building.
Creation and Youth
E.g. presentation on
Employment, Office
Mobile Big Data at
of the Vice
eNigeria organized
President at the
by NITDA
Data Science
Nigeria event Nov
26, 2016
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Driving industry conversation with an Industry Summit and showcase
of local success stories : Zenvus, Kudi.ai, Lara.ng
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Cross-industry awareness building on role of Big Data:
Legal : At the Nigerian AI for Marketing/Branding :
Bar Association Conference Google Nigeria BreakFast
Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the Dr Yemi Kale, the Statistician General of the Federation and CEO
Nigeria President on Job Creation and Youth Employment, Office Nigeria Bureau of Statistics speaking on Data is the Oil at the Data
of the Vice President at the Data Science Nigeria event Nov 26, Science Nigeria Big Data Summit in October 2017
2016
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Increasing government awareness building. E.g. presentation on Mobile
Big Data at eNigeria organized by NITDA
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Building global data scientists network to mentor local
Data Scientists: Focus is to achieve 2,500 by end of 2018
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Regular world-class Industry expert Meet-Ups and Knowledge
exchange – Prof Raj of IIT, USA speaks on Natural Language
Processing and Chatbots
Professor Raj Krishna, a
Microsoft Big Data
Evangelist and a faculty at
the IIT Chicago, USA spoke
on Natural Language
Processing.\
Dr Stewart's presentation
focused titled "Applying
Design Thinking in
Artificial Intelligence"
focused on the shift from
Avon Newmann
Architecture to Big Data
Architecture.
#PhD4Innovation
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1st Dedicated Science Community/AI Hub in Nigeria
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Library
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The AI Hub provides support & Access to AI data collection tools
AWS AI DeepLens Cameras Intel Movidius Neural Sticks for advanced facial Research Drones/Sensors for Farm data
Latest Google Clip AI Cameras
and object recognition. collection
Bionic Nature Observing Fisheye 360 Degree Wireless Sleep Quality /Health/
GSM/GPRS/GPS Tracking Device AWS IoT Button
Device With Recording Wifi Panoramic IP Camera Wellbeing data collector
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Visit by the Japanese AI envoy on AI/Robotic Lab in Lagos
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› (1) Robust AI Capacity Building
» Inter-University Machine Learning Competition
» Development of Nigeria-centric AI curriculum for students
» #DeepLearningNigeria expert bootcamp/Hackathon
» All-expense-paid residential learning bootcamps with world-class experts
» Access to best global AI communities for knowledge exchange/collaboration
» Special Support/sponsorship of female learning programmes/event
» Travel Grant/support for local/international learning events
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› (2) Learning Communities/Platform
» 3 AI Hubs for community engagement and learning in Nigeria’s 3 regions
» AI+ Club on 40 campuses with mentors and weekly learning sessions
» Industry Meet-Ups for use case and best practice sharing
» Regular competition-based learning (Kaggle, Zindi)
» AI free Summer schools for preteens/kids
» AI Library and Access to AI tools
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› (3) Content Development (local, context-based and use of local data and scenarios)
» Introductory AI Books with e.g. AI for beginners
» AI Naija Online School (Nigerian-centric AI learning videos with local context and data)
» AI intro for pre-teens ebook
» Machine and Deep learning Learning Series
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› (4) Talent support and deployment for industry
» AI Talent deployment via internship and project exposure
» AI Talent recruitment, job placement & onboarding programme
» Freelancer/Outsourcing projects to engage community members
» Expertise building through direct industry projects (Data Scientists on-demand)
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› (5) World class mentoring
» #MentorAfricanDataScientists –one-on-one Mentorship by pairing local AI talent with offshore world-class
experts
» NYSC Corp member mentorship programme to support Campus-based AI+ Clubs
» International Competitive Pitch/Competition Support
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› (6) Topdown AI awareness and Executive Immersion
AI ideas-to-market/incubation
Expert support and kick-off fund for AI start-ups
AI Venture Fund programme
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Strong partnership with the industry
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KPMG-sponsored Bootcamp hackathon on Unsupervised
clustering and best-fit product prediction of Nigerian banking
customers and
› Background
» Participants were provided with data from a survey of banks in Nigeria to understand
the preferences, levels of satisfaction and expectation of customers
Best model/winner : k-means clustering
» The database contains responses from more than twenty-three thousand (23,000) retail
customers, from over twenty-nine (29) cities across Nigeria
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» Identify five (5) to seven (7) distinct customer segments
» Provide descriptions and attributes of each identified segment
» What percentage of the total customer base does each identified customer segment
represent?
» Bank C wants to launch a new dollar card product
̶ Who should be their target customers?
̶ Determine the propensity for adoption of the intended new product
› Distinct Customer Segments : Candidates were able to identify distinct segments by making
use of multiple differentiating characteristics
› Rational and Logical Sequence to Solutions: Candidates were also able to show the thought
process behind the solutions proffered, making use of layman terms to explain complicated
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Artificial Intelligence can help in building advanced models
and algorithms to support the Inclusion narrative
Use of calling networks and frequency of
bank transaction alert as SMS
Weather/Macro/Farm output predictor for
Risk smallholder farmers’ loan
Scoring
• Local Image
classification
App Usage success rate
algorithm for
based on data/wifi
biometrics
Identity Access coverage /POS Location
quality indices
• Predictive identity Inclusion
based on proxies
Matrix
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Example 2: Conversational Commerce – Chat your way to
wealth in preferred local languages
Mr.
Location Help
Nearest
›Access to ATM,
Dealsmobile money agent, bank
Money Quick help
Codesto
›Access forDeals
transfers/airtime purchase by
branch etc. banking, fintech, app etc.
› Quick guide- e.g. My ATM is locked,
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Conversational Commerce – Chat your way to wealth in
preferred local languages
Add Human Agent
Machine
Learning
Credit
Text Natural Language
› Skype Response
› WeChat Offers
› Text WhatsApp
› SMS
Response
Response
Conversational Persistence
Module
Local slangs
Trending issues
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