Professor of Software Engineering, Sunday Idowu, has said deploying relevant software application can bring about meaningful and sustainable development in the country.
He made this known while delivering Babcock University’s 37th inaugural lecture on campus.
It was entitled: Emerging software capabilities lifeline for economic growth and sustainable development.
Idowu noted that deploying Artificial Intelligence-driven software in healthcare would improve the reach of service delivery just as the use of other software solutions in education and business would enhance learning and decision making.
“It is necessary to also deploy more software products and services through more investment in solutions-based researches,” he said.
Besides urging the Federal Government to provide intentional support to encourage and stimulate starts-up to evolve software capabilities, the don also made some recommendations for tertiary institutions and the National Universities Commission(NUC) to guarantee development of software technologies.This,he said, entails the allocation of adequate budget by the three tiers of government and higher institutions to improve productivity and sustainable development.
He charged the NUC and other regulatory bodies to ensure that the curriculum run in universities and colleges nationwide were time and market-relevant and sufficiently trending to provide students with good foundation for innovative developments in software technologies.