Intel trains experts on ICT

Information Communication Technology experts from selected universities are undergoing a two-week training to tackle the nation’s socio-economic challenges.

The training, organised by an ICT company, Intel Incorporation, started at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, on Monday.

According to the Chairman, Committee on Intel Galileo Board Training Workshop, Dr. Kayode Alese, the training will give the participants the requisite capacity to operate the new Galileo Board technology system.

The training, he added, would enhance the participants’ capacity in using ICT facilities to tackle national challenges, such as cybercrime, poverty, security, and issues related to health and Agriculture.

Declaring the workshop open, the FUTA Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adebiyi Daramola, commended Intel’s presentation of 40 Galileo Board to the university as well as its choice for the training.

Daramola said the collaboration was the latest in a series of local and foreign partnership for FUTA.

According to him, an existing collaboration between the university and the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University has contributed to boosting the rating of the institution.