<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Staurus Training insights</title><link>https://staurustraining.com/blog.html</link><description>Perspectives for institutional leaders</description><language>en-GB</language><item><title>Africa&#39;s Fastest-Growing Economies and AI: What the Data Actually Shows</title><link>https://staurustraining.com/blog-ai-africa-growth.html</link><guid>https://staurustraining.com/blog-ai-africa-growth.html</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Ethiopia is growing at 9.2% this year and has a national AI institute. It&#39;s tempting to connect those facts. The IMF and AfDB data says something more precise, and more useful, instead.</description></item><item><title>AI and Workplace Security: The Real Danger Isn&#39;t What You Think</title><link>https://staurustraining.com/blog-ai-workplace-security.html</link><guid>https://staurustraining.com/blog-ai-workplace-security.html</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The workplace AI risk that matters isn&#39;t a future scenario. It&#39;s already measured: employees leaking data through unsanctioned tools, and fraudsters using deepfakes to impersonate colleagues on video calls. Both have already cost real institutions real money, including in Nigeria.</description></item><item><title>AI and Fraud Detection: What Nigerian Banks Are Already Doing</title><link>https://staurustraining.com/blog-ai-banking-fraud.html</link><guid>https://staurustraining.com/blog-ai-banking-fraud.html</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Real-time transaction scoring is already standard in Nigerian banking. The open question isn&#39;t whether to use AI in fraud detection — it&#39;s how to govern it once the regulators catch up.</description></item><item><title>Bringing AI Into Public Service Delivery: Where to Start</title><link>https://staurustraining.com/blog-ai-public-service.html</link><guid>https://staurustraining.com/blog-ai-public-service.html</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Estonia and Rwanda didn&#39;t start with AI — they started with clean data and joined-up systems. The uncomfortable truth for MDAs considering AI is that the hard work comes first.</description></item><item><title>From Turing to Today: A Short History of Artificial Intelligence</title><link>https://staurustraining.com/blog-history-of-ai.html</link><guid>https://staurustraining.com/blog-history-of-ai.html</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>AI is not new, and it has crashed before. A short history of artificial intelligence from Alan Turing&#39;s 1950 question to today&#39;s large language models, and what seventy years of hype cycles teaches institutions about adopting AI sensibly.</description></item><item><title>How Revenue Authorities Are Using AI to Close the Tax Gap</title><link>https://staurustraining.com/blog-ai-tax-administration.html</link><guid>https://staurustraining.com/blog-ai-tax-administration.html</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>From Estonia&#39;s pre-filled tax returns to Chile&#39;s fraud-detection models, tax authorities worldwide are using AI to target audits better. What this means for FIRS and Nigeria&#39;s state revenue services.</description></item><item><title>Nigeria&#39;s National AI Strategy: What Institutional Leaders Need to Know</title><link>https://staurustraining.com/blog-ai-governance-nigeria.html</link><guid>https://staurustraining.com/blog-ai-governance-nigeria.html</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Nigeria&#39;s National AI Strategy sets a five-year vision and five pillars. Its governance body isn&#39;t seated yet — which means the compliance burden sits with your institution today, not tomorrow.</description></item></channel></rss>