Great Futoite, what are you building?
Writer - AI
Tech Topic Of The Day: Where are the technicians/technical support staff?
Scenario 1: MACHINING BUSHINGS - only ONE good machinist in the area around our factory, who can read mechanical drawings and machine the parts correctly. He finds it very difficult to get young ones who will be interned and trained to machine metal parts for industry.
SCENARIO 2: CNC machine maintenance & repairs are a necessity with machining shops. Very, very few machine mechanics & technicians are available in the Lagos area with knowledge to maintain and repair precision manufacturing machines. What products do we get from Fed Poly Nekede, Yabatech and the rest?
The name of the school is FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY , OWERRI....hope we've not lost focus of the KPI for our school.
Writer - BI
From a specialized university with technology at the core, FUTO will gradually become a conventional university that offers all and sundry. Then it will lose it's unique advantage. Even if they must go into the medical field, I think medical technology (which may involve the design of medical equipment and tools) would have been a better marketing proposition than medicine. Now, how will FUTO measure up with the institutions that have had a strong base in medicine like UNN, UI, UNIBEN etc.
I won't be surprised if they roll out new courses of study in the liberal arts some day. People will then go to FUTO to study literature in English😢
Writer CE
Wow!!!
I hope they will do the Technology aspect of this disciplines to the core.
Nursing for instance is going robotic.
Telemedicine is the in-thing right now.
AI is virtually deployed in so many diagnostic predictions.
If FUTO live to the full expectations it will be the first in Africa.
Way to go, a welcome Development.
I pray the vision doesn't go conventional. But Technological.
Writer - BI
Boss! Your last paragraph is also what I hoped for. But seeing the name of the school SBMS I can't expect much. If it was rather School of Medical Science and Technology, I would have thought otherwise. But with Basic Medical Science, mixed with the Nigerian culture of theory over practical, FUTO is gradually going conventional
Writer - CE
Yeah.
Emeka was my course mate at Lagos Business school.
He was a student from UNN.
He was at the time I met him the only indigenous lens maker and eye 👁️ glass frame maker
He didn't learn it from UNN he studied optometry but today he is in UK with his family doing it for them we lost the opportunity to train others under him.
Bayo also was my course mate in Lagos Business School.
He finished the conventional university education or so, no job.
He returned to Igbobi for 3year, to learn how to make prosthetics. Today he makes real life artificial limbs.
In world of medicals today, amputees' are given flexion tissue-like limbs that does the same thing the human natural hands does conventional universities don't do this.
Our world is changing.
I look at Nigeria I bow my head is sorrow, because the world discussion has shifted but we are still talking trash on hermeneutic herdsmen and fossil fuel.
As we speak Technology for protein synthesis to fight virus from body antigens are on. Is not medical doctors only that do this is always a collective meet of disciplines.
I hope and pray the aim is upheld.
Writer - AI
This captures, I believe, what we are all expressing - the technology focus for FUTO in any discipline that is accredited for study by NUC. Your points are very apt.
The leadership of the Alumnus can help us get this viewpoint to the school authorities. It's exciting what is possible if FUTO continues to focus on the technology
Writer - BI
The world will not wait for us. Sometimes I wonder what we were doing in African when the world got serious with Electricity over half a century ago. It is obvious we were not part of that technology and today, 100 years after electricity, we are still shouting "up NEPA".
In my opinion, until we (in our little ways) try to change the conversation, those you call leaders will only have herders and bandits to discuss.
Sadly, the only thing the regulators know how to do best is Ban. When the cryptocurrency guys started making waves, everyone started talking about cryptos. That's his it works in this type of environment where elected leaders are not proactive. If we start now, the conversation will start changing to the things that matters.
Writer - CE
The university management on her own can't do much but solidified plans and manpower sophistication.
The onion is on NUC to ensure that the right Standard Operational Procedures are upheld in structure recruitment funding, and delivery they are the regulators.
My take is that;
if the vision must thrive independent of the Bureaucratic undue process of the Nigeria system!
Then she must hull on her human capital resources
FUTO as a matter of necessity should leverage on her passionate grand breaking alumnus, to penetrate global interest.
With the stride Prof. Ekekwe is making, there is no interest FUTO can not pull it's attention.
If only the designs are right, NUC will be begging them to Transfer skills to other universities
But if is dosed on the fire brigade approach of gaining accreditation without adequate planning's and sufficient fund allocation it may produce a worse state of things.
Write CE responding to Writer BI comment
You see what we don't know is that Politics is the conductor of true development.
I will not shed light on this now but some day I will.
But let me share my pre-occupation last week.
The COVID-19 report show that Uk Food Systems has been dislocated.
In other to fix it the National Research institute (NRI) has shifted research on Food Systems for the next 10yrs.
The government have released not appropriated funds for such research.
Global professionals are sort for worldwide to come help fix that dislocation, it was a shock to me being in that webinar why did I bring this to account.
Without funding and government plans backed with visionary legislative policies
We will keep having Rochy and Hope's kind of situation.
The intentions may derain without Government interest being in that direction.
If I open the medical archive of India you will understand why politics is the Conveyor belt for development.
Let me stop here I have a free mobile connective for one yr to pick up.
Let me go and get it and know if it is tied with a monitor
Copied from discussion at FUTO Alumni Lagos WhatsApp group
Writer BI
ReplyDeleteTrue, everything runs based on politics and that's why most developing nations like ours struggle. But since we understand that the system is broken, we can't rely on them to drive innovation. They are politicians not entrepreneurs. They mostly discuss sociopolitical issues like the herders, bandits, terrorist etc. and any other issue that that affects society at large.
So in my view, they will never bring up a conversation around AI or clean energy except some entity in the society they govern is using or abusing such tools in society.
Now is a critical mass of people (in society) start using/building with unconventional tools, (even breaking traditional rules in some cases), the conversation will start to change. It won't be about just bandits/terrorists anymore.
They will either come in to understand and regulate it, or ban it if they can't understand it😀. But at least, the national discuss won't be just about cow and bandits anymore.
Just like electricity powered the invention and innovations of the 20th century, AI is and will continue to power the inventions of the 21st century into the foreseeable future. Google, Facebook or Tencent will not necessarily care about the effect of Bandit/terrorists or need Buhari's permission to colonize Africa under our watch. Just in case you have not observed it, I can categorically tell you that the global politics have shifted. Whilst local (national) politics is important, these global corporations will be more relevant politically both now and in coming years. It all starts with trade (business) and then it becomes political. That has been the trend of colonization from history.
Nobody writes you a memo that he wants to colonize you. So while our elected officials bother about boko and bandits, we must not be distracted by them.
50 years from now, those bandits and herdsmen won't matter anyone. What will matter then is if we will have been a free, independent people who can decide on the fate of our nation/continent, or if we will be negotiating another independence deal with the West or China for self governance.