The School of Information Technology and Computing (SITC), American University of Nigeria (AUN) has announced its 8th SITC Technology Open House taking place on Thursday, December 8, 2016, at the Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja.
Addressing a press conference in Yola to announce the event, Mathias Fonkam, a dean in the School, said the free outreach was aimed at reducing poverty in society.
“It is an outreach programme projecting and showcasing what we have here in AUN. Our vision is always trying to engage with the community and trying to support the university’s mission of development,” Fonkam said.
The dean, who was flanked by other members of the Faculty, expressed the optimism that the participants would find the programme enriching and rewarding, as according to him, “it can open the door for employment.”
He said that the AUN emphasis on technology in line with the changing world had marked the university out as best among equals anywhere on the globe.
According to him, “One of our objectives for doing all these is that we want to make our students to be employers of themselves with the skills acquired and also to be able to employ others. Government cannot employ everybody, so, people must be trained so that they can use the technology to help others. With little or nothing, you can survive by just acquiring the IT knowledge. It is really aimed at helping people to go out there and create business and employment.”
He explained that technology has so simplified life that a lot of success can be achieved without involving movements from one place to the other or without having a large office.
He also noted that the innovations in mobile technology and their integration with Internet and Cloud Computing have been unprecedented and create huge worldwide opportunities.
“The change has been so rapid that some of the mobile phones that you are carrying now are faster than the main-frame and even super computers of yesteryear. The question is whether you’re really making a maximum use of these devices,” he said.
The dean announced that the Open House programme would focus on three broad areas- Web design & application track; Database management &system modeling track, and Server administration & telecommunications track.
The forth-coming event would be the first time it would be holding outside the Yola campus of the University since it was introduced eight (8) years ago.
Zebulon Agomuo
