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A local voice for financial wisdom is close at hand

Data scientist wants to improve women's lives with an AI chat option offering financial advice for rural communities across Nigeria - and Africa.

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by BIRD STORY AGENCY

News24 October 2023 - 12:05
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Olubayo Adekanmbi at the Grand Challenges annual meeting in Dakar, Senegal
What we have built is a solution that allows people, especially women, who cannot read or write to track, plan, document, report and learn about their daily incomes and expenditures patterns, just by talking to their phones

In his journey from analysing blood samples to pioneering financial inclusion, the story of Olubayo Adekanmbi seems on the surface to be one of an unconventional career transition. Yet in many ways, the object of his metamorphosis was evident right from the earliest days of his very first job.

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