Galaxy Backbone has reiterated its commitment to ensure
that Nigerian Universities join the fray of cloud users as it partners Vice-Chancellors
of Nigerian universities, reports ITRealms.
This, ITRealms
reports would enable the leveraging its suite of cloud applications which can
be accessed over the internet or Galaxy Backbone’s fibre and terrestrial wide
area network.
The partnership ITRealms
gathered was one of the major outcomes at the Annual Vice-Chancellors of
Nigerian Universities (AVCNU) Conference held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State
recently.
The Managing Director of Galaxy Backbone Ltd, Mr.
Yusuf Kazaure who was represented by the Group Head, Business Development, Galaxy Backbone Ltd,
Nneka Nwobi shared their excitement over the collaboration with AVCNU.
“We are excited that the shift from traditional software
models to the Internet has steadily gained momentum over the last 10 years. As
a leading ICT infrastructure and services company in Nigeria, we believe that
the next decade of cloud computing promises new ways to collaborate everywhere
and empower Nigerian Universities with the technology platform to compete in a
global world” he said.
He
explained that the key components of Galaxy Education Cloud include nationwide,
dedicated institution management systems, a robust, personalized platform for
student administration, access to nationwide fiber backbone with special
discounts for higher education and dedicated online collaboration spaces for
VCs and faculty with secure access control.
Equally,
Malam Yusuf said that as a key technology partner, Galaxy will ensure
high-speed connectivity links to all institutional partners as well as provide
capacity-building activities for university personnel.
Galaxy Backbone boss further said that universities are critical stakeholders in preparing the
future workforce and that there was need for meaningful and robust engagement
between the Gown and Town so that outputs from the ivory towers would meet the
needs of the industries.
He
urged the university authorities on the need to embrace requisite technologies
and digitization of records across universities which would open plethora of
opportunities that would drive internally generated revenues (IGRs) that are
essential for entrenching universities autonomy.
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