Technology as Catalyst for Change Across Sectors Communication Education, others - SPPG
...SPPG's admission highly competitive through a rigorous virtual selection process
... it's unconventional school designed to attract, train and support a new genre of etaical and effective leaders - Mrs Alero
Emmanuel Oduara
The School of Politics, Policy, and Governance (SPPG), in partnership with the Yar’Adua Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation, convened the Big Ideas Platform 2024 on May 25, 2024 held at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre.
With the theme “Information Technology and Behavior Change,” exploring technology and social innovation as game-changers for Africa’s development.
The CEO School of Politics Policy and Governcce, Mrs Alero Ayida-Otobo, in her speech, said that technology is truly a game changer, playing a pivotal role in tackling Africa’s challenges across sectors like communication, commerce, education, and more.
The platform delved into four key subthemes: blockchain technology, environmental awareness, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence (AI). Four prominent African innovators presented their “big ideas” for leveraging these technologies for positive impact.
The Big Ideas Platform 2024 serves as a valuable platform in knowledge sharing and exploration of the transformative potential of technological advancement.
The innovations presented, offered significant development for addressing Africa’s pressing issues and driving positive change across sectors in education, communication, medicine, others.
While speaking with Newsmen, Mrs. Alero, highlighted how Nigeria change maker, pioneering Big Technological solutions to foster development in Africa.
SPPG, has produced leaders
who not only possess the right values but also have the knowledge and skills required to solve complex public problems.
Also nothing, a milestone was achieved where 55 members of the alumni were aspirants for elective offices in various
parties of which 9 won their party tickets and ran as candidates in the recent 2023 elections she said.
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Further more, she said SPPG has target to train a minimum of 5000 such transcendental leaders over 5 years in Nigeria and other African countries on our empirically designed curriculum of 140 multidisciplinary topics delivered in 10 months by 94 renowned academics, practitioners, and experts from around the
world.
She was delighted to announce the Introduction of #TheSPPGAdvantage campaign.
The rationale of the campaign is founded on the understanding that the challenges of Nigeria’s political and governance space demand more than just passion and desire for change. With the
SPPG Advantage, we're offering a comprehensive approach to empowering leaders to drive positive change in Nigeria she stressed
The platform is to foster discussions on scaling these ideas for Africa’s transformation.
