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Aurora Lab, a Nigerian artificial intelligence innovation centre, is launching a bold invitation: bring us your toughest real-world problems and let’s build AI that fixes them.

The initiative challenges the trend of AI remaining in theory, labs, and conferences. Aurora Lab wants solutions that touch everyday lives — in classrooms, hospitals, farms, businesses and communities.

From Ideas to Impact

The hub is built around three ambitious goals:
• Deliver high-impact AI solutions for Africa
• Build globally competitive AI business products
• Train world-class Nigerian engineers ready for the international stage

Aurora Lab says the real breakthrough is in its pipeline — one that connects people who deeply understand local challenges, engineers who can build practical technology, and partners committed to measurable results.

The Problems They Want

Submissions are open across critical sectors, including:
• Education: access, quality, teacher support, learning outcomes
• Healthcare & public health
• Agriculture & food security
• Climate & environmental sustainability
• Economic development & governance
• Business & SMEs: operations, growth, finance, customer engagement

Every idea will pass through a structured review. Selected problems will then be refined and co-created with partners to produce AI tools designed to attack root causes — not just symptoms.

The Bottom Line

If you see a challenge slowing Nigeria or Africa down, Aurora Lab wants to hear from you.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BwhPnUasR/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Submit your problem statement here: https://tally.so/r/68ZD2k

Welcome development to be honest

you no see Boko Haram?

you no see laukarawa? why you dey wait make dem show you thsoe ones. nonsense..is that real world problem?

Unemployment electronic transmission of results, poor network

Josepholome:
Submit your problem statement here: https://tally.so/r/68ZD2k

Let them find solution to neurological challenges...from spine injury to brain injury etc

I don't know why I kinda find this funny, like AI is some magical wizard that can solve any problem.
Besides most things AI can do (reliably) has probably been explored by NVIDIA/google/open AI since they stand to gain the most from those solutions (esp. NVIDIA)

Any other new thing people might come up with and send to them e.g medical diagnosis/medical assistant, AI can't do it reliably (yet) it's risks (wrong/hallucinated diagnosis) far outweigh the merits, enough that even google and the likes aren't pushing for it (yet).

But who knows, there might be some localised problem those big tech missed, but I believe you don't necessarily need "AI" to solve those issues as a normal cleverly designed software/hardware can solve those problems.

Can AI solve food problem?

The way things are going now, AI seems to be smarter than the average human. Singularity might just be closer than we thought.
We're watching and waiting.

If I give them a problem will they pay? Clowns!

Election Crisis. Show real results in real time.

Maj196:
Can AI solve food problem?

Simple and direct answer is Yes.


AI is already being used to solve food and agricultural problems in advanced countries.

They should go to inec/eyeneck and show them how to transmit election results real time with out glitch.

How can someone dig from Nigeria through the Earth's Core and come out at the other end, Maybe China

If the people behind the AI can bring out this solution and try it first, then I will take them serious

The drunk in the street corner can offer solutions to complex problems. The real question is who will implement them? Action is the difficult part. We have sat to draw solutions to our problems since time immemorial. Nobody is ready to take the required action(s).

This exercise will be a waste of time and hope.

Josepholome:
Aurora Lab, a Nigerian artificial intelligence innovation centre, is launching a bold invitation: bring us your toughest real-world problems and let’s build AI that fixes them.

The initiative challenges the trend of AI remaining in theory, labs, and conferences. Aurora Lab wants solutions that touch everyday lives — in classrooms, hospitals, farms, businesses and communities.

From Ideas to Impact

The hub is built around three ambitious goals:
• Deliver high-impact AI solutions for Africa
• Build globally competitive AI business products
• Train world-class Nigerian engineers ready for the international stage

Aurora Lab says the real breakthrough is in its pipeline — one that connects people who deeply understand local challenges, engineers who can build practical technology, and partners committed to measurable results.

The Problems They Want

Submissions are open across critical sectors, including:
• Education: access, quality, teacher support, learning outcomes
• Healthcare & public health
• Agriculture & food security
• Climate & environmental sustainability
• Economic development & governance
• Business & SMEs: operations, growth, finance, customer engagement

Every idea will pass through a structured review. Selected problems will then be refined and co-created with partners to produce AI tools designed to attack root causes — not just symptoms.

The Bottom Line

If you see a challenge slowing Nigeria or Africa down, Aurora Lab wants to hear from you.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BwhPnUasR/?mibextid=wwXIfr

They should use AI to solve the mystery of cancer.

The work has been waiting for cure for what seems like forever.

I will be happy if their AI can format the brains of our leaders replaced with another AI that has no tolerance for religious bigotry and corruption from homes to government houses and Aso Rock.

Corruption! Corruption!! Corruption!!! That's the root of all the problems facing Nigeria. Ask your AI to solve that.

Josepholome:
Submit your problem statement here: https://tally.so/r/68ZD2k

Quaraption will always be on top of the list.

Davidoff2000:
you no see Boko Haram?

you no see laukarawa? why you dey wait make dem show you thsoe ones. nonsense..is that real world problem?

I mean.....

The problems are everywhere

Grid collapse every eke market day
Boko haram
Kwara killings
Wike and fubara
Incessant kidnappings
nairaland bigotry.

Just to mention a few

they are not sincere company at all

The real world problem is the inability to know the real world problem. Solve it.

It's only Baba Tinubu that can solve Nigeria's epileptic problem.Let us give him maximum support