Enugu State Govt. Inaugurates New Tech Hubs And Youth Innovation Centers

 

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on Thursday, inaugurated the new Technology Hub and Youth Innovation Centers established by his administration to systematically prepare the youth of the state to become competitive in the national and global space, in line with the emerging digital economy.

Inaugurating the Tech Hubs and Youth Innovation Centers located within the precincts of the Three-Arms-Zone, Independence Layout, Enugu North LGA, Enugu, and another in Obollo Afor, in Udenu Local Government Area of the State, Gov. Ugwuanyi disclosed that the centers will offer services such as ICT training in Software Development, Website design/Hosting, Linus/Unix systems, Graphic Designs, Internet of things (IoT), etc.

The governor introduced that they'll also offer services in craftsmanship and fabrication, entrepreneurship improvement, innovation programmes, career enhancement projects, electronics/robotics, facilitation of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), among others.

He talked about that the selection to set up the Tech Hubs in Enugu State become knowledgeable by way of the large numbers of youths who graduate from severa technology and technical faculties and tertiary establishments inside the state, maximum of which give fine programmes in vocational training, talent acquisition, Sciences, Engineering, Technology and Management.

“Yearly, great numbers of youths graduate from those institutions, a lot of whom are inclined to set up progressive enterprise ventures to show off their abilties and talents however were hindered with the aid of dearth of considered necessary resources and beneficial operation environment”, he said.

According to him, “Enugu State is imbued with a favourable Tech environment fueled by way of the sizable highbrow aid of these educational institutions.

“Our management understood the need to intervene by means of supplying those youths a well-resourced, less costly, and aggressive surroundings through Tech Hubs and Youth Innovation Centers to pursue their passion and install their abilties.

“We are therefore planned in our effort to harness those highbrow and human resources to provide Tech Hubs in which era fans, innovators and entrepreneurs will have interaction to proportion thoughts and develop products and services with the intention to make the society higher even as developing jobs and wealth for our teeming youths.

“Today’s occasion is therefore a watershed in the concerted efforts of our administration to create new possibilities and amplify present ones for our youths and different citizens through begin-u.S.Acceleration and enterprise incubation with a purpose to sell youngsters inclusion, activity advent and wealth creation. The envisaged productive engagement of our youths may also reduce adolescents restiveness and promote safety”.

Consequently, Gov. Ugwuanyi consequently charged the kids of Enugu State, to make use of the opportunity to equip themselves with modern-day virtual talents for the rising virtual economy.

Commending the State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Sir Obi Kama and his crew, for powerful supervision of the assignment, the governor discovered that his management has initiated a obvious and aggressive process for hiring competent management groups for the Tech Hubs, whose mandate will include setting up liaison and co-operation with Global Tech giants and really a hit enterprise fashions through mentorship, training and certification.

Earlier in his deal with, the Commissioner for Science and Technology, Sir Kama, narrated that the new Tech Hubs have been the brain toddler of Gov. Ugwuanyi consistent with his management’s youth empowerment agenda, stressing that regardless of the dwindling assets due to the nation’s monetary challenges coupled with the outbreak of the unconventional COVID-19 pandemic, the all-crucial tasks have been conceived and brought one hundred percent by using the state government.

In their goodwill messages, the Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Edward Ubosi, represented through the House Committee Chairman on Education, Science and Technology, Rt. Hon. Arc. James Akadu, the Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, Mrs. AdaOnah Kene-Uyanwune, Chairman, Enugu State Universal Basic Education Board (ENSUBEB), Chief Ikeje Asogwa and the Special Adviser to the Governor on SMEs, Arinze Chilo-Offiah, applauded Gov. Ugwuanyi for the ambitious initiative geared toward harnessing intellects and imparting employment for teeming youths of the nation.

They described it as uncommon and entreated the adolescents of the country to make themselves to be had and faucet the inherent advantages the innovation centers provide.