The Senior Manager, Oracle West and East
Africa Operations, Mr. Bukunmi Omidiran, and other stakeholders have
called for the use of Information and Communications Technology in
tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
The stakeholders included the
Vice-Chanellor, Kwara State University, Malete, Prof. AbdulRasheed
Na’Allah, and the General Chair, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Dr. Ayodeji Oluwatope.
They spoke during the ninth international conference on ICT applications in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
Omidiran said the use of ICT in Nigerian educational institutions was still at the very nascent stage.
Noting that there were still lots of
opportunities for improvement, he said people were just beginning to
push the boundaries of the use of ICT in Nigeria.
He also said there was an appreciable use
of ICT by some industries such as the banking, advertising, oil and gas
and insurance industries.
“There are a lot more that we can do.
East Africa is doing better than West Africa particularly Nigeria, so
there is a lot we can do such as integrating payment systems in the
educational system and having a one-stop system of all university
administration with all kinds of services“
Na’Allah said it was imperative to adopt
more use of ICT in the tertiary education sector so as to be at par with
modern technological and educational trend.
Oluwatope urged greater ICT use and penetration in tertiary institutions in the country.
He stated that the conference was
intended to bring to the fore issues in ICT applications to
administration such as Cloud Computing, Big Data and Business
Intelligence.
He added that it was intended to provide a
platform to discuss new trends to aid the management and administration
of tertiary institutions in the country.
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