Python Nigeria Community has pledged to raise an army of artificial intelligent developers in the country through training of young Nigeria in the use of python programming language.
Pius Okigbo Jr, chairperson of the community, said that artificial intelligent is the new frontier for Nigeria and developing countries to play in the 4th industrial revolution.
He pledged to use his wealth of experience in the software industry to deepen the knowledge and understanding of how to use python software to deliver top grade services in the country and ultimately for the benefit of our young people.
“I will ensure that we have some sort of interface where we can share our advancement and reach within the community and see how best we can propagate the goals and objectives we think we can gain by driving the use python in our software community,” he noted.
The immediate Past Chairperson, Python Nigeria Community, Kelvin Oyanna, explained that the community is basically building people to develop skills and expertise in python programming language to solve problems.
“When young people are armed with skills they are able to use it to build technology tools to solve problems in finance, infrastructure, and agriculture and build solutions to solve our Nigerian problems.
“We are really looking for people who have no skills, no experience at all to come on board, for us to confidently say we gave them the platform to develop the skills and expertise they need in their job or building of business around technology.
Whichever level of qualification you are? We are willing through our various initiatives like meet-ups and training to upkeep and train people to develop their expertise to be able to become better in their job or build businesses around whatever technology they want to build.
“We play the role of talent developer. We develop people with the expertise to enable them solve problems in their various work places, jobs or start-ups and monetize it. We have been able to train over 55 persons in the use python programming.
Python Nigeria is a not- for- profit organisation as such doesn’t charge people to train them. To achieve this training we collaborate with agencies that assist to fund the training.