Computer Donations: The First Students are Served.

Computer donations: the first students are served

Students came into possession of their machines yesterday at the Ngoa-Ekelle Campus

Students from the "mother of the universities" came into possession of their machines yesterday at the Ngoa-Ekelle campus. 

"You wanted the computers, here they are!" It is by these words that the Minister of Higher Education (Minesup), Chancellor of Academic Orders, Prof. Jacques Fame Ndongo yesterday began his speech at the amphitheater 700 University of Yaounde I, Ngoa- Ekelle, in front of a human tide consisting mainly of students from the university and assimilated schools. All went massively to this solemn ceremony of handing over the computers, the special gift of the Head of State. 

Before proceeding with the actual surrender, Minesup wanted to impress upon the entire educational community and students how important this gesture was to President Paul Biya, a "father concerned with the future of young people" who today are becoming more digital. An artificial intelligence-based entrepreneurship, thus constituting the foundation of the new economy in the era of the information society. 

"The Head of State offers the future leaders of the nation that you are, the appropriate opportunity to be irreversibly attached to the digital modernity and thus become the seeds of digital governance to be innovators and creators entrepreneurship of the 21st century, "said the minister.

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Made in China, each computer is equipped with an Intel Atom Z850 processor, a Microsoft Windows 10 operating system, and Microsoft Office 965 production software. 80,000 computers of the first contingent arrived at the airport Yaoundé Nsimalen, December 22nd and 25th. 

If this event is possible today, it is thanks to the convention of nearly 75 billion F signed on 18 June 2015 between the Republic of China and the State of Cameroon. An agreement that decisively works to reduce the digital divide in Cameroonian universities should be noted, however, that convention does not concern the 500,000 ordina offered to students by the State. 

Cameroon will also benefit from the construction of nine digital educational development centers. Meanwhile, the distribution of computers continues today at the University of Yaounde II.