Nasirudeen B. Yakubu is the Managing Partner/CEO of 3logy Limited, emerging technologies company. In this interview, he speaks on critical thinking and how Artificial Intelligence can help Nigeria produce many Bill Gates.
What is idea behind 3logy?
3logy Limited is an emerging technopreneur company for emerging generation that promises to live up to the challenges of modern day world of technology. We set out to expose young kids to emerging technologies (Artificial Intelligence , Internet of Things, Robotics, ML Computational Thinking, Design Thinking and Programming) to enable them speak the language of the future.
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What is unique about 3logy?
We train kids of between ages 6-17, we mentor them and expose them to emerging markets. As we all know we live in the time of constant change, especially in terms of technology. Change that replaces the way we do everything. As technology replaces any job where work can be automated, our kids need to be imparted with adequate skills from the very young age.
What specifically do you want the kids to achieve?
We want to catch them young so that they would be self-reliant and have self-esteem and grow up to be employers of labour not job seekers. They will also grow to be millionaires.
How do you employ?
We employ only children and every child has something to offer. No wrong question and answer in 3logy. We tell our trainees to always feel free to show their creativity, ours is to guide them and match them with one another for team work.
Do you pay them?
Yes of course we pay per workload, we do pay via parents account so that they can monitor what their children do with the money.
How do you train them?
We train 10% physical 90%virtually globally. Only some parts of the trainings are physical and we do virtual graduation, and virtual seminars for kids.
Seminar for kids?
Yes! 3logy seminar series (3SS) is a monthly seminar series for kids that exposes them to emerging technologies. Participants will be prepared for the job of the future in an economy that is digitally driven.
Do you have any ongoing project?
Yes the kids are working to solve issues affecting the world now we are working on snow in Europe that affect cars, houses etc and we finding an IoT / material science solution to this problem.
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