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Doctoral Student @ MIT
HR Manager @ Pernod Ricard Western Africa
Senior Digital Communications Analyst @ Oando Plc
Creative Director @ Thalia Bespoke Nigeria
Senior Writer @ TechCabal
Managing Director & Computer Science PhD Student @ The Diasporic Group & Cornell University
Educator @ Covenant University
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Senior Lecturer @ The Technical University of Kenya
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Hello Sarah, I'm glad you found it useful. I just wish I had more experience working with a lot of other brands and also other experts. As you can imagine, our comms team in Oando will not have as many experts in the digital space as an agency that focuses on just digital. In my role, I have been able to work with agencies though so I have picked up a lot from them. I have also just made sure to upskill myself constantly and also worked for other brands in my spare time.
Toyin Jolapamo
Senior Digital Communications Analyst @ Oando Plc
I think this is a bit dangerous. Attempting to ascertain sentimental correlations and apply them to huge financial decisions may work in certain contexts and you could definitely train a model with 99% training accuracy on this task, but future situations that are dependent on complex human action can never be adequately represented by a numerical parameterization and a finite state machine. If the model is not large enough, we will not learn all the possible combinations of interactions. If it is too large, then we only learn the context of our training dataset. That being said, you could do both and get good results during training. Personally, I do not have extensive NLP experience or Bayesian experience in production, but their fundamentals suggest that they would learn this type of model well independently or in conjunction. Naïve Bayes is good for state estimation-based decision making, and NLP can be used to model language and extract sentiment. However, these models depend completely on the input dataset that one utilizes, and the chosen labels (if using a supervised method) that are often subjective. Using data from the internet is also dangerous because it is next to impossible to have humans annotate every piece of training data without spending a large amount of money, and learning from problematic input data can lead to problematic situations.To make this less vague, take the 2016 example where Tay, a chatbot made by Microsoft and trained on Twitter data, became extremely racist in less than a day of online training (https://twitter.com/geraldmellor/status/712880710328139776). Attempting to determine causation in a data driven sense is a slippery slope, and until AI solves the data-driven generalization problem (which I believe may be never) I wouldn't build a system like this in production until I could guarantee significant human supervision and have looked at the ethical implications on those who do not financially benefit from the proposed system.
Ifueko Igbinedion
Doctoral Student @ MIT
Hello Toluwanimi. I completely agree with you. ADHD is underdiagnosed in Nigeria. The diagnosis has very specific criteria which include hyperactivity, inattention and impulsivity of a certain duration. A lot of healthcare workers are unaware of the criteria. Parents may also seek help late or not at all. When the diagnosis is made, there is little consensus on what management methods work best. This lack ofuniformity of therapy makes management challenging. Coping for families involves support groups, a Multispecialist approach to care including the paediatrician , paediatric nurse, paediatric psychologist, child psychiatrist and the occupational therapist. Children with ADHD may have other issues like oppositional behavior which need to be addressed. Building capacity to diagnose and treat ADHD as well as creating public awareness will go a long way to help children with this condition
Ayodele Renner
Consultant Paediatrician @ Lagos
How many fishers will be ready to tell you, fishing at large scale is very profitable?
How many even in your environment will consistently encourage and mentor you to gain more.
The role of an engineer, beyond his analytical sense and political ambitions is that of developing substantial growth even low scale.
As a computer engineer (that's how you ought to be addressed even by yourself: the consciousness of who you are) no one hinders you from developing programs and tools to solve issues in your community. Renewable energies utilisation could be part of it.
Have you ever thought of how in coaction with other engineers around you, you could mobilise waste resources in Buea to make it active?
What of developing plants which will assist the women along the Muea market to easily wash their fish for example?
What of extension to use streams, to generate electricity for Student hostels or automation of water plants in student hostels.
Your question shows you have interest in solving Education and Health issues?
What plans have you taken towards that? If you do consistently, the same funding agencies will come to you, then we could assess your loyalty to solve Africa's problems with your skills.
The earlier we stop the blame game, the better.
You might also want to host a session which people who share interest in your field. This particular session comes from a public demand to elucidate with persons having interest in renewable energies.
Loic Bethel Dje
Youth and Apex Performance Mentor | Initiator @ PureBreedSbe
Sure, we need to start planning for the future. You want to consider what made these people stand out, they were able to make the best use of opportunities that comes their way. There are many Dangotes that are on boats in Makoko, Lagos, we cant neglect the role of opportunities. However, all things being equal, I will say1. Education - to support critical thinking and evaluation. Even up to PhD is possible/necessary.2. Entrepreneurship - to create income generating opportunities from things around.3. Empathy - to understand and respect other people, to pull other people up, to win together and be real human.
Dr. Emmanuel Mogaji
Senior Lecturer Advertising and Marketing Communications @ University of Greenwich, London
Thankfully, I never just dive into spending large sums of Naira, because of the space I work in, I am always able to see what's performing well and change gears very quickly. This is not to say that I have not had some campaigns perform poorly. In fact there was a particular campaign we launched in 2019, it did so well, and we tried it again in 2020 thinking because there are more people online, the campaign will perform better, but it didn't. In this situation, I simply laid out some of the assumptions we made that were wrong, some of the learnings, and how we intended to pick up the slack, because it was a campaign that contributed to our overall goal, so when we realised that we had fallen short, we needed to be creative about how we could get the same traction on other campaigns.
Toyin Jolapamo
Senior Digital Communications Analyst @ Oando Plc
For example; female genital mutilation (FGM) is one of the most prevalent harmful practices against women and girls.
It is on record 80 percent of this form of rights abuse on women and young girls happen in Africa, with Somalia being the highest with about 98 % their girls having undergone such a gruesome experience. There are some Cameroon's ethnic groups that believe in FGM as a means to keep women faithful to their husbands , reduction of sexual immorality among women, removal of sexual ambiguity and improving genital esthetics .
This practice use to be common with the Ejagham tribe(where I come from) in the South West region of Cameroon.
Reliable information equally hold that , about 20%of girls in some communities around Kouserri were circumcised on 2010 , but by 2015, it dropped to about 2% and unfortunately went up to about 10% by 2018.
Other passive examples could be found around the Northwest Region where a widow and children are deprived of property left by their deceased father. Fortunately the is a recent penal legislation in Cameroon that protects widows in this regard .
Thirdly cultural norms where a widow is forced (against her will) to marry her deceased husband's brother(this can commonly be found around the Northwest Region of Cameroon) etc etc .
Arrey Ojong Collins
International Criminal and Human Rights Lawyer
Hmmm, I think most people have been in contact with tech already, they just might not think much about it. Most people in these academic institutions have smartphones and access to the internet. That's a valuable tool at their disposal.
While some of them are taking advantage of this opportunity like Emmanuel Njoku [https://techcabal.com/2022/02/24/meet-the-19-year-old-nigerian-building-his-own-blockchain-empire/], others aren't or aren't privileged to have access to this.
Fortunately, different organisations and agencies have different initiatives targeted at exposing young people to tech. We share some of them in our daily newsletter [https://techcabal.com/category/tc-daily/]
Also, at TechCabal, we're definitely looking forward to working with schools and communities to tell them more about tech. We even have a newsletter focused on people interested in entering tech coming up soon.
I think the younger generation is privileged to have more resources at their disposal and will do greater than this generation. Technological advancements tend to get better as time goes by. All is well.
Daniel Adeyemi
Senior Writer @ TechCabal
Thanks, Dafe for this insightful question.What can be done when spaces are not purpose-built to suit the users' persona and psychographics: renovation and remodelling. If the property is bought, a full remodelling can be done. If rented, a renovation can be done. For example, adding a workstation at the corner of a room for remote work, or a reading corner for the children at the children's bedroom or a changing vanity top in one of the toilets. The beautiful thing about the perspective brought about by the pandemic is that it has informed design professionals for planning better spaces especially residential developments.
Dr. Abraham Owoseni
Educator @ Covenant University
Hello Precious, You should explore Medium. It's a platform for writers. You can eventually start your own blog, but try and build consistency on medium and also get some inspiration and maybe start building a community. Don't ignore LinkedIn and Twitter.
Toyin Jolapamo
Senior Digital Communications Analyst @ Oando Plc
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