Build Africa's Skills on Tech, Agropastoral...

The Government of Cameroon has done a lot in creating so many secondary technical schools and higher teacher technical training colleges in universities but little has been done in equipping the workshops with tech and tools for practical lessons.

Students from these institutions complete their courses without a solid background in practical work and so missing the most important aspect of tech education. Most of those who graduate from these higher technical institutions want to become teachers in technical schools because during their period of study from secondary through university in their various disciplines, they do not master the application of scientific laws into practical work needless to talk of operating the technical equipment in the laboratories.

Because access to tech and the knowledge of use is not mastered, t hey will graduate from these institutions and have nothing to offer to the society and most of these graduates find themselves as teachers in society. In the course of teaching, they are often embarrassed with questions from students concerning practical lessons as they went through schools with no machines to operate.

These teachers are satisfied with what they teach to their students, and specialized in the teaching of scientific theories.

The students upon completion of their various courses will pass the scientific theories as they received from their teachers to the younger students in secondary technical schools and this syndrome keeps going on year after year in Cameroon technical institutions. They make these students believe that technology can be transferred on papers. Never can tech be transferred on papers as skills will not be developed. Skills transfer, employability are the paramount objective of every student who passes through a technical institution. These skills are acquired through practical work and help the student to be creative and innovation. If a student graduates from a tech university in Cameroon without practical skills in the field of study, whatever qualification he or she has is for self esteem. Cameroonian tech schools only graduate self esteem graduates and the community cannot benefit anything from their theoretical studies.

The most part of graduates from tech institutions in Cameroon go to the teaching profession while few seek jobs in companies and there are rarely those who are self employed so very little contribution into the economy of the nation.

Cameroonians should understand the importance of applying scientific theories and skillfully. If this is done, they will be job creators and not just job seekers.

Look at the thousands of personal computers, smart phones, cars, Lorries, solar panels, trucks, tractors etc in our cities and count how many are made by our tech students.

Tobby Vision Computers in line with vision 2063 of the African Union to develop African airspace and technical vocational education training (TVET) trains students to be productive in the various specialties:

·        Graphics Design  

·        Administrative Assistants

·        Computer Software Programming for Application Developers

·        Entrepreneurship  

·        Computer Maintenance

·        Computerized Accounting

·        Agro Pastoral  

With our partners we apply the scientific theories that is why our graduates are job creators as they set up their own small business concerns and are easily recruited by the private sector as they graduate readily equipped for that sector.

 

Become A Personal Computer Wizard In 2 Months

 The Management of Tobby Vision Computers wishes to announce to the general public that Registration for Holiday Computer Classes is currently going on in the center every work day from 8:00am prompt.

Tobby Vision Computers is located directly opposite Express Union Bambui.

We also offer publishing and publication of practical computer school manuals, Personal Computer Maintenance, Sales of Computer Accessories, Web design, apps building and documentation services with clean photocopy.

Our fees are very moderate and period of studies is negotiable. The regular study time is from 8:00am – 12:00pm and 1:00pm – 5:00pm daily for morning and afternoon shifts respectively, each student assigned to a personal computer.

We have professional and a highly dedicated staff that inspires our students to become personal computer wizards within a very short time.

Tobby Vision Computers, inspiring young men and women to reach for the skies in ICTs.

N.B: If you are interested in learning to code your own apps please consider attending the Tobby Vision Computers

Promoting Agriculture through Tech Savvy and Access: Training the Bambui Farmers of Tomorrow

I notice that young farmers were generating a lot traffic on social media but were not doing anything particularly beneficial for themselves or their environment. So I founded my centre to train farmers also and to reach out to young people in my community by helping them learn about the opportunities that would open up for them if they were to study ICTs then pursue careers in agriculture, further their education either in the arts or sciences.

The “Ngong” Project in Bambui which trains the Bambui farmers of tomorrow is still expecting funding for the training of these farmers in ICTs. ICTs are very important because they are enabling the results of agricultural research to be delivered to an increasing number of end users some of whom are, in turn, suitably empowered by ICTs so that they can provide researchers with updated information on progress of their crops, appearance of pests and diseases.

I have been working at Tobby Vision Computers, an ICT school for 14 years now and have partnerships with Mendel Foundation a community- based organization for educational support to the underprivileged and protection of the environment, collaborating with Reignite Action for Development (RAD) Cameroon, a local branch of a UK charity, providing a multi-sectoral and holistic approach to natural resource management to the local community and Community Based Extension Common Initiative Group COBEX) all involved in agricultural practices. Since ICTs are now being applied to all parts of agricultural research in the development sector, connecting Tobby Vision Computers programmes with agricultural and rural change is a programme that is struggling to gain momentum when funding would be available for the Bambui farmers of tomorrow.

Many Community Based Organizations (CBOs) in Bambui and environs carry out their work at remote sites and collect field data manually, processing this data only when they return to their offices and this process naturally increase the risk of error. Today, more and more researchers are able to access data sources remotely using a mobile phone, notebook or tablet, for immediate submission via internet to a project data repository or sharing with collaborators.

Bambui–Tubah small farmholders are turning to the mobile phones to connect to agricultural and information services and markets. They are in need of smart phones, notebooks, tablets and hand held data capture devices. Tobby Vision Computers partner CBOs are using its centre to facilitate research by providing information to scientists about the condition of the land and crops. The increasing need for access to accurate geospatial data for application in diverse range of development activities (agricultural, disaster, conservation, climate change and economic development) has resulted in the advent of Geographic Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies.

We believe access to ICTs is a human right and its skills can enable communities into seeing that working together helps them to discover and put in place better, more sustainable solutions for a more food secure future. It is important that agricultural researchers’ work is disseminated to as many end users as possible and ICTs are an important tool for doing this.

There is no community radio in Tubah Sub Division broadcasting for the community even though traditional.

A management expect explains that several research studies are done without including farmers, who in the final analysis are the intended beneficiaries of the research results. Tobby Vision Computers and a community based radio can address this disconnect as the Tubah community radio will provide an excellent opportunity for mutual collaboration between agricultural research and development experts and farmers.

ICTs can help researchers to interact with farmers. The challenge lies in finding the traditional and new communication technologies, trainings, for stakeholders to be interactive, through using facilities like call–ins, call–outs, SMS, voice messages, interactive voice response, facilitated listening and web base platforms. Hearing about #DevicesforGood – a project of #MentorNations we believe visualize devices for good agripreneurs which would include a community radio in Tubah Sub Division.

Coding:Cameroon Getting Started Is The Most Important Part

Check out where MentorNations will be sharing their skills forward in Cameroon. Looking forward to launching our digital literacy and coding camp series in partnership with Tobby Vision Computers Bambui. Cornelius Tawong Brice William Boum

 MentorNations Excited to launch their digital literacy program in Cameroon to truly live the vision of ‪#‎CSforAll‬. See you in August, Cameroon! See https://www.facebook.com/mentornations/?fref=ts

Melissa and Brice Updating 364 #HP laptops headed to North Africa to empower Tunisian teachers and youth to transform their lives through technology #MentorAfrika

These ‪#‎Tunisian‬ kids in ‪#‎MenzelBourguiba‬ have new ‪#‎HP‬ laptops and are beginning to have  ‪#‎ICT‬ skills! Thanks to MentorNations

Tobby Vision Computers Bambui, cross section of a six-month course students in lab studying grading in spreadsheets

The launch of Cameroon's Computer  Science for All ‪#‎CSforAll‬ is here in August 2016

Excerpt: It is unique to always share what you know best to various people around the world because it may enable social awareness and economical sufficiency, particularly among the under served. 

Born and raised in ‪#‎Cameroon, I could have never dreamed to become a software engineer because of the lack of infrastructures concerning the study of computer science. Albeit becoming a software engineer, the idea to be a help toward achieving digital literacy in regions of low technology access could not have become a reality without the involvement of ‪#‎MentorNations, a non governmental organisation that serves the same honorable purpose still in many places around the world such as Jordania, Tunisia, Pakistan and now Cameroon. ‪#‎TobbyVisionComputer Cornelius Tawong and MentorNations Melissa Sassi have agreed that digital literacy is a human right. Although the dates are still in workings, We MentorNations will provide coding camps to the young females and males in Bambui Cameroon in partnership with Tobby Vision Computers. we will bring our savoir-faire and share our experience in technology for the specific purpose to create passion and build the next generation of engineers in that region. As getting started is the most important part, It is time to move Cameroon in particular and Africa in general toward this new era of vast transformation. And in that, we will be successful. 
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Shalom.