Cloud Computing Awareness-creation in Cameroon: US Tech Company donates 65 m Fcfa to boost efforts

CEO, Jespo Mbwoge explaining the concept Cloud computing

 

By Billa Solomon B and Joy Bikom*

 JJ TECH, a US-based company, has made available a grant of 100,000 US dollars (about 65 million FCFA) to boost cloud computing awareness-creation in Cameroon.

JJ TECH CEO, Cameroonian-born Prof Jespo Mbwoge, who announced the grant , last  July 23 , at a Silicon Mountain Summit on Cloud Computing at St Claire Hotel in Molyko-Buea, further awarded a scholarship worth $70,000(over 45 million Fcfa) to 20 summit participants  to undergo a six-month IT training in Cloud Computing.

 The summit, which was aimed at creating awareness on the importance of Cloud computing to Cameroonian youths, was attended by over 150 participants. Participants included University lecturers, engineering graduates, students, IT tech experts and aspirants

Cloud computing is defined as the "on-demand delivery of computer system resources" or "being able to have access to data from anywhere in the world. Micheal Gwei and Emmanuel Ayiseh, both experts in Cloud Computing expounded on Cloud Computing jobs and Cloud Computing models as well as service types.

The grant was handed to JJ Tech Partners Molyko - Buea office to execute the cloud technology sensitization program across the country, particularly the Amazon Web Services Cloud Technology and other IT offers.

The 20-person scholarship, he said, would   guarantee professional training with international recognition to enthusiasts of Cloud Computing, thereby providing professional cloud engineers and technicians who can even be employed as offshore operators by western companies seeking talents abroad.

Speaking at the summit, Prof Mbwoge narrated his past life including his switch from accountancy to Information Technology (IT), and the numerous challenges he faced but overcame them. (Prof Mbwoge was an accountant but later migrated to the US where he developed interest in IT, becoming an expert in the subject)

 He encouraged participants to be consistent, determined, and most especially, go in for the best.

 Prof. Mbwoge said Cloud computing employments would not require the engineers to move abroad, but stay back in Cameroon and use the internet to carry out their cloud computing jobs.

 

 

Participants at the  cloud computing summit

 

He said the selection of the scholarship beneficiaries must be based on objectivity and not gender-bias –and those selected would be contacted privately by email.  

(*Billa Solomon B and Joy Bikom are University of Buea Journalism students on  internship )

NB:This report was first published in The Horizon Newspaper ,Cameroon,of July 28,2022.