The Director of Science, Technology and Innovation, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. Kolawole Olobashola, has urged staff to embrace emerging transformational technologies.
According to him, it’s needful at this time when the world is rapidly advancing into a future defined by technology.
Speaking recently at a one-day sensitisation workshop on Blockchain, Digital Assets Management and Artificial Intelligence, Olobashola emphasized the importance of staff training on such applications to further reposition them to be at par with their contemporaries in digital technology.
The Director noted that in the era of AI-facilitated businesses, computer-based assessments, robotic engineering, and regenerative technologies, our staff, teachers, students, and every other individual desiring enhanced accomplishment must sprint up with digital evolution.
In his remarks, the Chief Executive Officer of Digital Assets Management Academy (DAMA), Prince Ozioma Nwankwo, described digital asset as an electronically stored item that exists in a digital format and has value or ownership rights.
Nwankwo said the programme is categorised into Traditional Digital Assets, which do not require blockchain technology to prove ownership, and Blockchain Digital Assets, which are newer types of assets with a secure and transparent digital ledger to record ownership and transactions, having core features such as decentralisation, immutability, consensus, trust, and transparency.
The CEO stressed that the concept of blockchain digital assets and artificial intelligence are no longer futuristic as they are already reshaping industries, economies, governance and people’s daily activities.
He therefore called on industrialists, SMSEs as well as government agencies to seize the new opportunities being created by digital assets management to boost entrepreneurship and gain access to global markets and investment tools previously out of reach.
Abuja Times reports that the workshop was organised by the Department in conjunction with DAMA.