A workshop on the 4th edition of ICT Days opened in Douala this week.
As they say, “Technological Innovation is the Pillar of the 21st Century Industry,” with just a click or two, one can carry out transactions in education, health, banking, trade, and check cyber criminality using innovative technologies.
Speaking during the fourth edition of the ITC Days in Douala, the organiser of the event, Reine Essobmadje, General Manager of Evolving Consulting, revealed that with innovative technologies, one can use ICT to carry out e-commerce that can go a long way to enhance commercial transactions in Cameroon. She made known that big data like urbanisation and town planning can be carried out through ITC to know the number of persons living in each neighbourhood, number of houses needed and to efficiently design cities. “Carrying out e-consulting,” IAI Lecturer Serge Bissa added, “is easy, time-saving and cheaper than going to a healthcare unit.”
Through big data, Jose Curto Diaz, one of the resource persons, said people, through technological innovation, enterprises or individuals can use many machines to work at the same time. Using a Smac phone, one can instantly get information concerning one’s health, how much energy one has used and how long one has walked which are part of internet 3.0.
GICAM’s Executive Secretary, Alain Batongue, underscored that ITC is a weapon for enterprises’ development. He said it improves enterprises’ performance and make them competitive and respected at the international scene.
As enterprises technical partner, GICAM has organised and trained senior staff of companies on efficiency, competiveness as well as aspects of ICT in business. In his address, the Country Representative of African Institute of Computer Sciences, Armand Claude Abanda, expressed that through the initiative of the First Lady, Chantal Biya, some 103,350 women were trained on ICT and another project to train one million youth, children and women on ICT will be launched in the days ahead. Earlier, Kaptue Pierre, Inspector General in charge of Technical Matters in the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, said the capacity building in ICT favours industrialisation and emergence.
