Reflections 2.10

[16:03:03] *** YALDA West Africa added Kate ***
[16:03:28] *** YALDA West Africa added Olumide Idowu ***
[16:03:32] *** YALDA West Africa added ruchione ***
[16:03:36] *** YALDA West Africa added Adebola Adenuga ***
[16:03:59] YALDA West Africa: Hi All, Welcome to the YALDA West Africa Live Chat
[16:04:17] YALDA West Africa: If you are there please write something
[16:04:36] *** YALDA West Africa added oyebisius ***
[16:04:47] Kate: Hello, greetings from South Korea
[16:05:10] Adebola Adenuga: hallos
[16:05:14] Adebola Adenuga: Something
[16:05:20] Adebola Adenuga: U said i shld write something
[16:05:23] Adebola Adenuga: lol
[16:05:25] YALDA West Africa: Thanks Adebola
[16:05:36] Kate: hi
[16:05:52] Adebola Adenuga: U are welcome
[16:05:59] Adebola Adenuga: I leave in 30 mins though
[16:06:08] YALDA West Africa: Ok thanks….
[16:06:11] Adebola Adenuga: So wat are we discussing
[16:06:20] Adebola Adenuga: let me starting punching my keyboard
[16:06:47] *** Missed conference call. ***
[16:07:12] YALDA West Africa: We are writting, not calls please
[16:07:23] Adebola Adenuga: that waz buzzing
[16:07:36] Adebola Adenuga: since there is no Buzz button , i used that
[16:07:39] Kate: So What’s the topic
[16:08:04] Adebola Adenuga: What are u writing and deleting at the same time?
[16:08:33] YALDA West Africa: Youth: Making Sustainable Change Happen,
the Imperatives and Challenges
[16:09:06] Kate: West African Youth?
[16:09:08] YALDA West Africa: Seyi Oyebisi is lead speaker and he has 35 mins and thene we discuss
[16:09:42] YALDA West Africa: Kate, the event is only being anchored by the West Africa Arm of YALDA
[16:10:06] Kate: Just checking
[16:11:08] YALDA West Africa: Thats fine Kate
[16:11:47] YALDA West Africa: I am helping Seyi Oyebisi set up and while we are at that kindly visit his personal website at: www.Oyebisi.com for a brief about the lead speaker
[16:12:50] *** YALDA West Africa added Esther Olatunde ***
[16:13:00] YALDA West Africa: Esther welcome
[16:14:46] YALDA West Africa: Seyi sends his apologies for the delays, and I am hopeful we will sort his connection issues in a minute or two
[16:14:59] YALDA West Africa: 4:00 – 4:05: Opening Remarks (Moderator)
4:06-4:45:  Keynote Paper: Youth Making Change Happen: The Imperatives and Challenges (Seyi Oyebisi)
4:46 -4:51: Q and A session (Moderator and Seyi)
4:52-5:00:  Networking Session
[16:15:51] *** Missed conference call. ***
[16:16:38] Adebola Adenuga: y buzzing?
[16:16:57] YALDA West Africa: House rules: Nobody should use the dial button please
[16:17:42] Esther Olatunde: ok, sorry about that. didn’t knw abt d rules
[16:18:07] YALDA West Africa: It is ok Esther
[16:18:30] YALDA West Africa: We will follow this agnda
[16:18:32] YALDA West Africa: 4:00 – 4:05: Opening Remarks (Moderator)
4:06-4:45:  Keynote Paper: Youth Making Change Happen: The Imperatives and Challenges (Seyi Oyebisi)
4:46 -4:51: Q and A session (Moderator and Seyi)
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Official Release:   www.OluwakoredeAsuni.com

Youth Corp Member Conceived, Designed and Transfers First Public School Web-portal in Niger State, Nigeria

Oluwakorede Asuni, a batch A 2008 youth corp member completing his primary assignment at the Government Secondary School, Minna, Niger State has completed the design and implementation of a school web portal for Government Secondary School, Minna.

The portal will be officially commissioned by the Niger State Commissioner for Science and Technology, under the distinguished Chairmanship of the Chairman, House Committee on Education Niger State House of Assembly at 11:30 am  on Thursday 19^th February, 2009 at the Government Secondary School, Minna computer laboratory.

You can take a sneak peek here: www.GovernmentSecondarySchooMX.org/index.php.

The system will be available at:  www.GovernmentSecondarySchooMX.org as from the 19^th of February when it will be officially unveiled and presented to the public.

The feature rich system has amongst others the following:

·         Home page/Welcome screen—welcomes the visitor to the website site and introduces available resources. The home page also features news on current activities in the school or that the students and staff of the school are involved in at any given time;

• Staff list;
• School Calendar;
• Teaching and Examination Time Tables;
• eMail: Customised email accounts for all principal staff of the school and the school’s senior prefect;
• Videos and Pictures gallery: A repository of selected pictures and videos from school events;
• External links to students support resources;
• Newsletter subscription and delivery system for serving monthly school magazine;

It rides on a deployment of the Joomla! CMS and uses a tweaked Joomla Art (J.A. Purity) template – which is a simple and easy to use template that comes pre-installed with the version 1.5.9 of the CMS.

Amongst others the portal will provide information sharing resources for staff and students, put the school on the global map of educational service providers and open another page for Nigeria in the book of good public image.

The project has been planned for the first five years, and the school authority has accepted responsibility for its sustenance.

Mr. Oluwakorede Asuni has put in place a web development training program to empower staff and students with requisite skills for the maintenance of the portal. This special training will also equip trainees to undertake projects of similar magnitude in future.  

Given the feedback gathered from test sessions of the system, Mr. Asuni remains convinced that the website is a welcome development and its objectives will be surpassed.

Mr. Asuni declares:

‘This project was undertaken as a community development project in the community in which I completed my one year National Youth Service as provided for in the NYSC rules and regulations.

I wish to seize this opportunity to share with all that though the lofty ideals for which the NYSC was created appears defeated  the scheme remains a golden opportunity for personal development, social integration and setting oneself  apart from the crowd. It is an opportunity to show drive and put oneself at a point of vantage which will set one apart in the labour market – which seems the ultimate for many.

And to those charged with managing the scheme, I suggest a revision of the policy(s) and laws guiding the scheme with the goal of identifying what works and does not and the adoption of global best practises to maintain relevance in the emerging global village. Perhaps then, graduates will once again look forward to their deployment for the scheme.

On my outlook for the future, I hope to continue to work in areas that support sustainable development, human capital development/management and the use of ICTs in education and development.

Note:

Oluwakorede Asuni is a 2008 PIN/Microsoft Internet Safety Security and Privacy Initiative for Nigeria (MISSPIN) Ambassador. He hails from the Ijebu North Local Government of Ogun State and graduated from the department of Physics, Olabisi Onabanjo University (formerly Ogun State University), Ogun State Nigeria in 2007.

He wrote and published in 2006 (and updated twice in 2007 and 2008) the book: Students’ Survival Kit – a performance guide for undergraduates in Nigeria (ISBN: 978-076-408-9) www.thestudentsurvivalkit.com.

He maintains a personal website at www.OluwakoredeAsuni.com and blogs at: www.OluwakoredeAsuni.com/blogs.html.