Ask a Nigerian business owner what they think of artificial intelligence and you will struggle to find a skeptic. Ask them what they have actually done with it, and the conversation changes quite quickly. A recent study by Zoho found that 93 per cent of Nigerian organisations say they have already begun their AI journey. That figure, on its own, would suggest a country sprinting ahead of the rest of the developing world. Yet a separate measure puts Nigeria's real AI adoption rate at just 10.1 per cent in the first quarter of this year, below
Ask a Nigerian business owner what they think of artificial intelligence and you will struggle to find a skeptic. Ask them what they have actually done with it, and the conversation changes quite quickly. A recent study by Zoho found that 93 per cent of Nigerian organisations say they have already begun their AI journey. That figure, on its own, would suggest a country sprinting ahead of the rest of the developing world. Yet a separate measure puts Nigeria's real AI adoption rate at just 10.1 per cent in the first quarter of this year, below