Senate has began the legislative process towards the establishment of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology in Uga, Anambra State.
A bill to that effect sponsored by Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, which was read for the first time on Tuesday, July 7, 2020 passed second reading on Wednesday this week.
In his lead debate on the piece of legislation, Senator Ubah said; “the institute, when established will carry out scientific and applied research in the area of modern information technology application to optimize processes and decision support systems.”
Besides, the lawmaker said the institute would provide dynamic learning infrastructure with quality education through rigorous teaching and research methodologies in ICT, stressing that it would provide academic programmes with quality curricula focus to forge professionals, experts and scholars in the field of ICT, electronics, software engineering and telemedicine.
Senator Ubah further explained that the institute would aim at fostering such values amongst its academia, undergraduates and graduate scholars, and ensuring a place of pride for our teeming youths in the world of learning.
A copy of the bill obtained by VON, shows that it seeks to provide platforms for modelling, design and control of processes and systems, create single and multi-objective optimisation models, group decision making models, desktop and web-based software systems for information processing, optimisation and decision support. It will enable for research and studies to enhance modelling for automobile breakthroughs, renewable energy sources and for night vision devices.
It notes that “technology is extremely important in the workplace as a means of communication, today businesses rely on it heavily.”
“Technology allows many businesses to expand more quickly by having the proper means to promote. It is trending now that all businesses have social network websites that would enable service delivery and giving updates to their customers.
“ICT is the trending best practice the world over, and an institute specially designated for this purpose should be a welcome development,” the bill stated.
In his contribution to the debate, Senator Smart Adeyemi sought the support of the Senate for the bill, and called for the establishment of the institute in all the six Geopolitical zones of the country.
Also, Senator Binos Yaroe noted that education remained the bedrock of development of any nation and therefore stressed the need for the government to venture into areas capable of generating employment opportunities and revenues like the ICT and mining, among others into the country.
Mercy Chukwudiebere
