Seychelles Nation - 19.09.2008
The Seychelles University Foundation has started a series of talks with representatives of the private sector to find out what they need in the area of information technology (IT).
Dr Payet addressing stakeholders at the opening of the workshop yesterday
The aim is to enable the university to formulate suitable programmes that are relevant to Seychelles.
The first session took place in a week-long workshop which started yesterday at the Seychelles Trading Company’s conference room on Latanier Road, where IT experts, human resources managers and teachers looked at the needs under the guidance of Professor Manfred Eich from Germany’s Hamburg University.
“It is our intention to bring together all the local stakeholders, both from public and private sector, to determine the local needs and opportunities with respect to the IT education sector,” chairman of the foundation Dr Rolph Payet said.
He said the talks will go a long way towards ensuring the IT faculty at the University of Seychelles will give due consideration to local IT needs and opportunities, given the heightened role of information technology in this globalised world.
He gave Singapore as an example of success – a prosperous country that owes much of its progress to the development of its IT.
Dr Payet also called on the private sector to consider improving the IT network locally so people can access computer technology from different parts of the islands.
Although the country’s primary IT goal is to be connected to the submarine cable, it will not help much if its benefits are not distributed more widely in Seychelles than is done by the current network.
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