5,000 youths to benefit from Ogun digital summit – Organisers
The Director of Ogun Digital Summit, Sola Otesile, on Thursday, urged the youth to cultivate a positive attitude toward the use of technology to enhance national growth and development
Rather than engaging in the use of technology and ICT tools to commit crimes and jeopardise their future, Otesile urged them to be innovators and use the potential of technology to revolutionise the economy and create solutions to a myriad of socio-economic challenges buffeting the nation
This is just as the tech entrepreneur said that this year’s Ogun Digital Summit, organised in collaboration with the Ogun State government will expose over 5000 youths to cutting-edge technology that is in high demand and would have sufficiently empowered the youths to contribute meaningfully to the country’s development.
Otesile stated this when speaking with the journalists in Abeokuta over the 5th edition of Ogun Digital Summit beginning on October 29
He said that this year’s summit with the theme “Innovation: Pathway To Our Nation’s Prosperity” is designed to encourage the youth to see how they can use the power of technology to solve identified challenges in the area of arts and culture.
Otesile said, “One of the major reasons for setting up this digital summit is to open the eyes of the youth to the proper and productive ways of using technology which is a double-edged sword that can either make or mar your life depending on how you use it
“There are a lot of young people out there using cars and doing well that are not into internet scams or using the technology to the disadvantage of others, they are only leveraging on the potentials of technology, some doing two jobs in one corner of their homes.
“There are also a lot of IT skills that are in high demand and which can give our youth sound footing as providers of solutions to some challenges, all of these this year digital summit shall bring to the surface and discuss.”
Otesile said that this year’s summit will also provide a kind of feedback from its previous editions as there will be a start-up or innovation exhibition out of which five brilliant innovations will be selected to meet with the investors who will be ready to buy into their ideas.
He said that the four-day summit which will be held at the June 12 Cultural Centre will be declared opened by Governor Dapo Abiodun.
Others expected at the summit are popular thespians, Lateef Adedimeji and Kunle Afolayan, the ace cinematographer, Tunde Kelani, Kiki Oshibajo, an international fashion designer, Olugbenga Agboola, founder of Flutterwave, Director General of National Information Technology Development Agency, Kashifu Abdullahi among others.
The Special Adviser to Gov Abiodun on ICT, Dayo Abiodun, who was represented by Mrs Banjo Olawunmi from Bureau of ICT, said the government would always support efforts to deepen the culture of digital transformation among the youth, hence its support for the annual Ogun Digital Summit.
Abiodun urged the youths to embrace the training opportunity provided by the summit to build a better world for themselves and the nation.
The Convener of the summit, Victor Adeleye, said the focus was to encourage the youth to begin to use the instrument of technology to tackle identified challenges in any sector of their choice thereby creating jobs and economic value chains that aid the national prosperity.
