Digitalizing African poetry using immersive and interactive 3D formats for existing and to come contents incorporating sounds, videos as well as interactive animations and games to made into Extended Reality(AR/VR/MR). We Leverage Google AI models (Gemini, PaLM 2) for NLP-driven poetic analysis, personalization, and multilingual access.
Inspired by Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah, a renowned professor of literature and Vice Chancellor University of Abuja, Nigeria, and also necessity to improve the very limited 3D African contents accessible on the internet, dropping interest and greatly reduced use on African poetic pieces, to spark the interest African poems and modernize poetry publication using emerging technologies.
Flagship project of the University of Abuja at the 17th Abuja International Trade Fair by the ABuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry. First of it's kind open platform for showcasing African digital products.
Accessible to any device running modern web browsers from laptops to phones.
High quality graphics with optimum performance and display across all devices.
Integrating Google's Gemini API and PaLM 2 for natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and poetic generation. This enables personalized poetry recommendations, multilingual translations, and interactive storytelling.
The necessity to improve the very limited 3D African contents accessible on the internet, dropping interest and greatly reduced use on African poetic pieces, to spark the interest African poems and modernize poetry publication using emerging technologies. The project digitalizes poetry using immersive and interactive 3D formats for existing and to come contents incorporating sounds, videos as well as interactive animations and games to made especially available in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) meeting with the Metaverse trends. IIDAAPP will encourage more futuristic approaches to oral or written poetry and literature and increase engagement by current, younger and coming generation as well as serve as a platform for distribution of premium works by poets and artist and to create avenue of content creator and scholar to meet, interact and showcase existing works and collaborating of future projects.
IIDAAPP will operate as a project owned by Co-owned by the University of Abuja in collaboration with direct contributors and stakeholders.
1. Spotlight the works of Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’ Allah and its contribution to African poetry and literature
2. Establish an Online Digital Poetry Platform accessible as website and apps
3. Create an avenue to engage poets, artist and academicians
4. Organize training for arts and poetry digitization
5. Organize online and onsite arts and poetic exhibitions
6. Stage events for contemporary poetry
7. Promote interdisciplinary projects of arts and poetry with other fields.
8. Create and distribute in-house contents for the public
9. Promote art digitization of African contents
10. Promote and encourage the use of VR/AR in education and entertainment
11. Promote public contribution to society with backings for educational institutions.
12. Create Poetry Ambassadorship programmes for schools and organization
13. Integrate Google AI Models (Gemini, PaLM 2) for NLP, sentiment analysis, and poetic generation
14. Develop AI-driven personalization for poetry recommendations based on user preferences
15. Build multilingual AI translation for African poetry to reach a global audience
16. Collaborate with Google AI experts to refine and scale AI-native features
1. Expanding and reviewing the above listed activities to spell out modalities for execution and possible investors in the areas.
2. Exhibition at the 17th Abuja Trade Fair Exhibition
3. Benchmarking of existing immersive 3D arts and poetry
4. Exhibition platform website development
1. Ministries of Arts, Culture and Tourism and related government agencies
2. Embassies
3. Educational Institutions
4. Artist and Designers
5. Poets
6. Writers
7. Publishers
8. Software developers
9. Modelers/illustrators and animators
10. VR/AR gadgets manufacturers
11. State and Local Governments
12. Real Estate companies
13. Media houses
14. Musicians
15. Leisure centers and parks
16. Ministries and Parastatals
17. Human rights and Ethics and value-based organizations
18. Religious organizations
19. Movie producers and Actors
20. Individual and multinational businesses
21. Electronic gadget sellers
22. Communications companies
23. Cooperate Organizations
24. The general public interested and arts and poetic contents
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Reaching for intercontinental markets and exhibition within and outside Africa with poetry.
Making a way to revive African rich poetry for promoting wise sayings and teaching.
Getting to know about how to show case my writings to the world is what I find interesting about the project.
Helen John
PoetIIDAAPP has been so inspiring as I got to know that poetry has been a missing link for developmental orientation.
Ola Stephen Onuh
VR creatorI have found a better way to enjoy Africa poetry through the visualization of writing contents.
Roger Scott
TeacherI'm a visual learner and I enjoy to see things rather to read them and the quality are stunning
Ahmed Isah
Marketing ManagerIIDAAPP, Office of the Vice-Chancellor, University of Abuja, Airport Road, Abuja, Nigeria