E-Business
“CureChat’, Mobile App to Save Lives Goes Live
CureChat, a new app aimed at reducing loss of lives caused by ignorance through effective public health awareness has gone live in Nigeria and the promoters are happy about it.
It is premised on providing for the long needed technological solution to bridge the gap between doctors and patients in Nigeria.
CureChat was launched in September 2015.
According to the promoters, malnutrition, malaria, typhoid among other illnesses have been burning problems in Nigeria and the bordering countries in Africa for many decades without complete eradication.
Folabi Karunwi, Founder/CEO, CureChat Ltd, said that these public health issues have been a major burden on the country’s economy affecting the day-to-day life of every citizen.
CureChat Ltd, he said is up for the Challenge
According to Karunwi, “Lack of health awareness has been a major cause of the number of deaths reported in Nigeria yearly. There is a clear need to identify an approach to creating public health awareness in a rather effective manner in order to reduce the number of loss of lives caused by ignorance in Nigeria and Africa.
CureChat Ltd pitches their new startup under the limelight that people nowadays have easier access to the internet and new technology than in the past, which can be helpful in creating more awareness on public health. Both teens and adults are obsessed with their smartphones and clearly show a higher tendency to use new technology to gain access to information and seek professional advice.
“The CureChat App creates a platform in which patients can directly chat with doctors on their smartphones to be educated on health matters. It gives patients the opportunity to communicate confidently with health professional and fosters boldness to eventually and most importantly visit a hospital” Karunwi added.
The CureChat App provides a promising means to break silence among patients and the health conscious in the target group by allowing anonymous chat in which they can openly discuss their doubts and health challenges with doctors.
This app aims at fostering strong communication between doctors and the people. Users can directly chat with consultants, locate hospitals nearby, chat with experienced users who have recovered from similar ailments and also learn about various sicknesses, identify causes, symptoms and prevention methods.
People as well as doctors can sign up on the platform. It is free to download.
The CureChat App can be downloaded from Google Play Store, Apple Store and CureChat.com.
The CureChat App runs across a whole range of mobile devices guaranteeing optimal performance.
Users can register under three subscription packages to receive services on The CureChat App.
Gartner predicts that by 2028, 75 percent of enterprise software engineers will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) code assistants, up from less than 10 percent, currently.
According to a Gartner poll of 598 global respondents conducted in the third quarter of 2023, 63 percent of organisations are now testing, deploying, or have previously implemented AI code assistants.
AI code assistants provide for more capabilities than only code development and completion, notes the research firm.
According to Gartner, the use of AI code assistants can lead to higher work satisfaction and retention, resulting in lower turnover costs.
Philip Walsh, senior principal analyst at Gartner, comments: “Software engineering leaders must determine ROI and build a business case as they scale their rollouts of AI code assistants.
“However, traditional ROI frameworks steer engineering leaders toward metrics centred on cost reduction. This narrow perspective fails to capture the full value of AI code assistants.”
Gartner notes that software engineering leaders must “reframe the ROI conversation from cost reduction to value generations”.
Walsh adds: “Calculating time savings on code generation is a good place to begin building a more robust value story. To convey the full enterprise value story for AI code assistants, software engineering leaders should connect value enablers to impacts, and then analyse the overall return to the organisation.”
National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said that the planned national ID card will be issued to applicants by their banks.
NIMC said it is working with the Nigerian Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) to deliver the cards to applicants.
“The card will be issued through the applicants’ respective banks in line with existing protocols with the issuance of the Debit/Credit cards,” the agency said at the weekend update on its official X handle.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROPOSED NEW GENERAL MULTIPURPOSE NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD
- The new National ID Card is a single, convenient, and General multipurpose card (GMPC) , eliminating the need for multiple cards—not three.
- The single GMPC has multiple use cases:…
— NIMC (@nimc_ng) April 12, 2024
It said applicants need to request their cards with their NIN “through the self-service online portal, NIMC offices, or their respective banks”.
“The card will be powered by the AFRIGO card scheme, an indigenous scheme powered by NIBSS,” NIMC said.
“The card can be picked up by holders at the designated center or delivered to the applicants at the requested location at an extra cost to be borne by the applicants,” the update read.
National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said that the new national Identity card, powered by AfriGo Card, is a single card with multiple services.
NIMC made the clarification against the confusion and criticisms that have trailed the AfriGo Card , touted as a National Domestic Card Scheme.
NIMC is launching the AfriGo Card, in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria Inter-bank Settlement System (NIBSS), and has had appointed SecureID, a Lagos headquartered company to manufacture the Card Scheme
Making clarification on the card, Kayode Adegoke, head of Corporate Communications of the NIMC, said the General multipurpose card (GMPC) will eliminate the need for multiple cards.
“The new National ID Card is a single, convenient, and General multi-purpose card (GMPC), eliminating the need for multiple cards—not three.
“The single GMPC has multiple use cases: Payments/Financial, Government intervention/services, travel, etc.
“The National Identity Management Commission is working with the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian Interbank Settlement System to deliver the payment and financial use cases.
“The card will be powered by the AFRIGO card scheme, an indigenous scheme powered by NIBSS. Applicants for the card will have to request with their NIN through the self-service online portal, NIMC offices, or their respective banks.
“The card will be issued through the applicants’ respective banks, in line with existing protocols with the issuance of the Debit/Credit cards.
“The card can be picked up by holders at the designated centre or delivered to the applicants at the requested location at an extra cost to be borne by the applicants,” he said.
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