Uniccon Group Launches Omeife AI, Digital Literacy Mobile Apps  

UNICCON Group of Companies has launched Omeife AI and Digital Literacy Apps to bridge the technology gap in Nigeria and across Africa.

Recall that UNICCON Group launched Africa’s first humanoid robot (Omeife) in December 2022.

These apps are derivatives of the Omeife for the benefit of Nigerians, Africa, and the world.

Omeife AI seeks to push the ideas, resources, values, history, and culture of the African continent to the world by first creating an enabling AI infrastructure that will propel the existing users, workforce, and Africans to achieve better and more efficient results with the help of AI.

The Director General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa, who unveiled the apps at the Group’s headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital applauded the UNICCON Group for the significant success recorded since the launch of the humanoid.

He spoke about the extraction of services to provide digital literacy saying the technology is needed to achieve the targeted 95% digital literacy in Nigeria.

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He recalled that the Nigerian Government has launched a National Digital Literacy Framework (NDLF) to make Nigeria a leading talent hub and global economy aimed at setting a digital literacy and skills agenda for Nigeria by providing a clear and consistent definition of digital literacy for the purpose of building curricula, modules and programs.

“So, the launch of Omeife AI and Digital Literacy Mobile Apps is a step in the right direction in contributing to achieving the Federal government vision, to achieve 95% digital literacy rate in Nigeria by 2030.”

 “Omeife can be in the hands of Nigerians to learn in a personalized manner and have an interactive experience. I have gone around the facility and I am impressed with the technologies in place. I am happy with the convergence of technology in this place, from biological, physical, and chemical perspectives,” Inuwa explained

He pledged the support of the NITDA to the Group’s through funding its research endeavors.

The Chairman of the Group, Dr. Chuks Ekwueme, acknowledged the National Technology Information Development Agency (NITDA), academia, industry partners, policymakers, and the community for supporting the thriving of digital literacy.

He specifically thanked the NITDA’s DG for being a partner in progress.

Ekwueme emphasized that the apps launched will solve unique problems in Africa and add value to society.

He noted that building a digital economy is impossible without the digital education of the masses, especially those at the grassroots, such as local traders and undeserved.

The General Manager of UNICCON Group, Mr. Kehinde Ake, in a welcome address, called on all relevant stakeholders in the technology space to support the initiative of enabling digital literacy in Africa.

He stated that there will be no digital economy if the beneficiaries are digitally ignorant.

The apps launched have translation services from source to target languages such as English, Pidgin English, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, French, Swahili, and Arabic. They also render subtitling, knowledge assistance, text summarization, and video translation.

According to the UNICCON Group it seeks to bridge the technology gap in Nigeria.

The event had the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON), GIZ, Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), the Nigerian Computing Society (NCS), Convexity, and other in attendance.

In their goodwill messages, while extending collaboration opportunities, they applauded the UNICCON for advancing digitally literacy in Nigeria.

Some of the features of these apps includes Translation services, Subtitle translation, Knowledge assistant, Summarisation, Video translation (Pidgin) and Digital literacy.