The First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu has said that as the world continued its steady course into the digital era where innovations shape interactions and define ideas, it was time to balance the act, ensuring that humanity, not technology, lead.
According to her spokesperson, Busola Kukoyi, Mrs. Tinubu made this submission while addressing the ‘Education Above All’ plenary session of the 12th World Innovation Summit for Education , WISE in Doha, Qatar.
Alluding to the success story of Qatar in the area of education, the First Lady who shared the stage with her counterparts from Lebanon and Syria was convinced that no religion forbade girls from being educated. As such, she said the federal government was doing everything ppssible to provide every Nigerian child with the endless possibilities that education offered.
“Everything begins with education. We are doing all we can as a government to advance the education sector. We must collectively look at the bigger picture, knowing that Nigeria has a huge human capital resource and that is what we thrive on.
“Our youth are known globally, either in the arts, education, fashion, movie industry or agriculture. They are doing tremendously. and not only that, president Bola Ahmed Tinubu is treating Innovation and technology as the bedrock of human capital development.
“Nigeria, being an emerging economy, digital literacy has helped us a lot because it is faster, it reaches a lot more people. It also comes with its downside. Our young people are either using it for good or negatively.
We believe we would keep empowering the young ones in this area and they would do better”.
The chairperson of Qatar Foundation and host of the summit, Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser harped on the need for education to do more in transforming lives and communities by connecting young people with new jobs.
Other speakers at the summit attended by over 150,000 participants from all over the world, harped on the need to see humans as the basis of various ongoing transformations in the world.
They emphasized that human values and ethics should determine the use of AI posing the question that progress would be worthless without human values.
The 12th World Innovation Summit for Education, WISE has as its theme, Humanity.IO, Human values at the Heart of education.
