It was a truth universally acknowledged that Nigeria, a nation possessed of considerable technological prowess, must be in want of applying said prowess to the preservation of human life. Yet as the flash floodwaters rose across the country recently, claiming 200 lives and leaving 500 missing, one could not help but observe a most peculiar phenomenon: a digital economy that had mastered the art of cryptocurrency transactions and fintech innovations had somehow failed to master the considerably simpler challenge of water level monitoring!
The irony was not lost on those who had witnessed Nigeria’s remarkable technological ascension over the preceding decade. Here was a nation that had birthed unicorn startups, developed sophisticated blockchain applications, and deployed advanced drone technology to monitor thousands of kilometers of oil infrastructure. Yet when nature presented its annual hydrological examination, the country appeared to have forgotten that the same sensors monitoring crude oil flow could theoretically be repurposed to detect rising water levels in flood-prone areas.
Source: TechOnion.org
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