The august occasion, which took place on Saturday at the OIC Conference Centre in Senegambia, was aimed at empowering educators with AI-driven teaching skills.
Africa Missions Global is a fully-fledged faith-based not-for- profit organisation committed to addressing the plight of the less privileged in Africa and around the world through appropriate community development and empowerment initiatives. The Mission, which commenced its activities in the 1990s, has about 30 chapters across countries in Africa and other parts of the world such as Europe, Canada, and the United States of America.
About The Gambia, the West Coast Director of AMG, Dr Sesan Akinnawo, stated: “In The Gambia we started in about a year ago to reach out to communities with assistance. Today’s function (the AI training) is to impart knowledge to teachers. For the next one year we are going to impart knowledge to educators. We intend to provide an App for participants to continue to interact and learn more.”
He added: “What we will try to do in The Gambia will be more than what we have done in other nations.”
Since it pitched tent in The Gambia, the AMG has continued to impact communities in various places through addressing their health needs with health talk and counselling, feeding and the provision of clothes to those in need, particularly in West Coast Region.
The minister for Public Service, Administrative Reform, Policy Coordination and Delivery, Baboucarr Bouy, who represented the Vice President of The Gambia, delivered the keynote address on the topic: ‘Empowering Educators with AI-Driven Teaching Skills’ prior to the training session. He said,“AI has more to offer to benefit mankind rather than harming us.”
He explains the importance of AI to society in various facets of national development, such as education, public and corporate administration, and in business and the economy.
“AI is a branch of computer science that is dedicated to creating systems that exhibit intelligent behaviours that are typically associated with human functions such as understanding, language learning, reasoning, and solving problems,” he said.
Mr Bouy encourages all to embrace the new information-gathering technology to learn and make good use of it.
He also commended AMG, coordinated in The Gambia by Mrs Adepeju Dara, for their selflessness and service to mankind, especially to the people of The Gambia where they have now established themselves.
Lead facilitator of the training programme, Dr Fola Ojuola, gave a brief background of AI before taking participants through the course. “We hope to launch an App for the participants by November this year, which will be very helpful to all,” he declared. “As the world is transitioning to AI, Gambia is also transitioning to AI.”
The participants also received certificates for undergoing the training.
