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By Madu Obi
Anambra State - owned Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, COOU, and Bliss Team Educational Services Limited (Bredhub-UbTech), an ICT company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, to review the educational curriculum of the state to allow students to do coding, Artificial Intelligence, AI, and robotics
The Managing Director of Anambra State ICT Agency, Mr Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata said at the occasion that COOU would play a leading role to energize the Anambra tech drive that Governor Chukwuma Soludo has been dreaming of.
According to Agbata, the MOU was in line with what is contained in Governor Soludo’s manifesto
He said: “It is no coincidence that we are here to flag off initiative where students of COOU will have a good time with real-time robot that is disrupting the world.
The university system must continue to play an important role, akin to the revolution played by Stanford University that birthed Silicon Valley, one of the top tech capitals in the world."
The acting Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof Kate Omenugha said the university has been looking forward to this kind of disruptive creativity that would benefit students and staff of the university.
She said: “The signing of MOU for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Education, makes me feel a bit fulfilled as it aligns with my administration’s desire to add academic and social bites in the institution.
When we came into this university, we wanted to add academic and social bites in what we are doing. This has in-turn made the university a beehive of academic activities within the last seven months of my administration.
We drew inspiration from Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo. Two professors from the school, Prof Umedum and Prof Agofuru have already done 13-weeks training on AI and Robotics Education in readiness for this project.
We have to key in to this because there are so many things we will learn. It will also be open to the outside community, including those people consuming hard drugs, with a view to keeping them busy and change their psyche so that they can become more productive to the society.
Part of what we do here is community service to both our internal and external publics with a view to giving back to the society.”
Managing director of Bredhub, Ahamefula Michael said there is need for people to up their knowledge of artificial intelligence and robotics so that they can live in a society under the current 4th Industrial Revolution.
"We are creating industrial revolution in this part of the world; we want to produce students with real knowledge who can provide solution to society’s problems,” he said.
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