TECHDIGEST – Artificial Intelligence (AI) is highly rated among the most disruptive technologies, and a great means for startups to achieve their hyper-growth targets.

With a number of applications in big data, computer vision, natural language processing, and more, AI is revolutionizing businesses, industries, and people’s lives.

AI technology startups are attracting the attention of multiple investors across the globe, and particularly so in Europe, North America, Asia China and in Africa countries like Nigeria, South Africa, and Egypt, among many others.

AI refers to the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly or routinely carried out by humans.

The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience.

Examples of AI startups are Darktrace, Freenome, Mobvoi, Benevolent AI, Tusimple, Unisound while those founded by Nigerians are Cloud Minds, and 4paradigm Intelia, Spear Lab, Ceretronics Technology, and Aide Solution, just to name a few.

Chopwork, the latest addition to Nigeria’s e-market sector, is an Artificial Intelligence-powered digital market platform created for sellers and buyers of digital products and services to grow at any scale.

The Nigerian startup is determined to eradicate poverty among people in Nigeria and Africa by providing them a profitable online platform to connect to clients globally in selling their digital products and render quality service to customers.

In an interview with TechDigest, the Chief Executive Officer of Chopwork Marketplace, Akoh Jerry said the company’s resources are geared to offer people the opportunity to make money from the comfort of their homes and overcome poverty.

According to him, the company standard of operations are uniquely formulated to ensure that service providers on the platform do not experience any delay before getting paid as a customized process in place to enable them access money earned from transactions.

Akoh emphasised Chopwork serves as a source of livelihood for Nigerians to earn quality money to meet their daily needs and thrive properly. So, as a creative or service provider in Nigeria and other developing countries, you can register for free on platform, list all your downloadable products and services.

The downloadable products can be sold multiple times thereby generating passive income while the creative can render quality services which are properly secured to protect both the service providers and the buyers.

Another unique feature of Chopwork digital market platform, is the introduction of a programme called Sales Executives which is open for anyone interested in joining the business to register as a sales executive and create a virtual market based on existing products and services on Chopwork.

By coming on board, the sales executives can promote their virtual products through the existing market which can be both offline and online. Also, a sales executive earns a commission whenever you advertise and results to a customer buying a product through your link.

The CEO of Chopwork maintains that the platform gives access to both skilled and unskilled individuals to work and gain financial independence thereby becoming economically empowered.

AI remains one of the key technologies that has helped to transform industries and solve world problems conveniently. As the years pass, AI technology and Machine Learning has continued to gain prominence in factories, healthcare, banking, and security which now extends to e-Commerce, social media, and mobile application platforms.

However, as AI technology progresses and solutions are developed, more challenges also appear concerning how we do things.

The hunt for AI talents, supporting IT systems, processing unstructured data, improving cybersecuriy, transparency, established AI ethics are some of the major issues necessary to help drive sustainable growth in in the application of AI technologies for in more diverse areas of human endevaour.

To enable encourage more players in the Nigerian tech startup ecosystems, the Chopwork founder, appealed for the enactment of friendly tax laws, open access to funding opportunities, investors and provision of more resources for new startups while also helping existing ones to upscale.

Abbas Badmus is a staff writer with Techdigest

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TECHDIGEST – Founder of Chopwork Marketplace, a Nigerian e-commerce startup, Jerry Akoh says the company’s vision is geared to tackling the scourge of poverty and unemployment among Nigerians and Africans.

Chopwork Marketplace was among the nine startups unveiled by NITDA at the GITEX Future Stars Show which held recently in Dubai, UAE.

In an exclusive interview with TechDigest, Akoh said that Chopwork Marketplace is an Artificial Intelligence-powered e-commerce platform created for sellers and buyers of digital products and services to grow at any scale.

He emphasized that Chopwork Marketplace is motivated by the determination to eradicate poverty among people in Nigeria and Africa by providing them a profitable online platform to connect to clients globally to sell their digital products and render quality service to customers.

“Chopwork serves as a source of livelihood for Nigerians to earn quality money to meet their daily needs and thrive properly. So, as a creative or service provider in Nigeria and other developing countries, you can register for free on Chopwork, list all your downloadable products and services.

“The downloadable products can be sold multiple times thereby generating passive income while the creative can render quality services. These services are properly secured to protect both the service providers and the buyers.

“To get more businesses online, we created an affiliate program called Sales Executives. Anyone can register as a sales executive and create a virtual market based on existing products and services on Chopwork. The sales executive can promote their virtual market through existing market which can be both offline and online’’.

Akoh, who also told TechDigest that Chopwork Marketplace offers people the opportunity to make money from the comfort of their homes, added that service providers will not have to wait till the completion of the service before getting paid because a customized process has been put in place to enable them access money earned from transactions.

Akoh expressed his gratitude to NITDA and NCAIR for giving him the opportunity to participate at GITEX 2021, saying that the event helped expand his vision and perspective about the value of networking and strategic partnerships.

“Chopwork marketplace is a global platform and since we launched, I’ve interacted with clients from across the globe but GITEX changed my perception about the scale that Chopwork needs to grow. My vision has grown exponentially as a result of attending GITEX.

“I was able to create lasting partnership in the little time I spent attending the conference. Many thanks to NITDA and NCAIR for availing me the opportunity to showcase my product to the world”,Akoh said.

Akoh applauded the Nigerian government for creating enabling environment to startups to grow and thrive through various initiatives being managed by the agencies under the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy.

The Chopwork founder, however, called for the enactment of friendly tax laws, open access to funding opportunities, investors and provision of more resources to startups to enable them contribute to developing the country’s digital economy.

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