DELTA, AUGUST 2, 2016 – Chris Uwaje, director-general, Delta State Innovation Hub (DS-IHub) has said that the world class eGovernment Academy was borne born out of passion to positively disrupt Delta State development agenda through proven, efficient and sustainable Technology Innovation processes.
Speaking at the Centre, he said DS-Hub is deeply honoured and privileged to be a citizen of Delta State of Nigeria, “particularly at a time like this, when our distinguished State Governor – Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa has setup S.M.A.R.T Roadmap as the focal point of Delta State’s development Agenda”.
The acronym S.M.A.R.T, he said, means “Strategic Wealth Creation & Provision of Jobs; meaningful Peace Building Platform for Political/Social Stability; Agriculture Reform and Accelerated Industrialization; Relevant Health and Education Policies and Transformed Environment through Urban Renewal.
“After subjecting all the above to surgical knowledge analytic and quality evaluation, our professional team scored Governor Okowa’s State Development Agenda with the grade of ‘SMARTER’ – which simply translates to ‘DELTA No Dey Carry Last’. Welcome to Smarter Delta. Smarter Delta is about Innovation, Innovation and Innovation – Please accept my apologies – it about “Inno-Passion, Inno-Passion and Inno-Passion. Passion is what drives the DS-IHUB: DS-IHUB is a unique knowledge factory”.
Uwaje further described the Hub as an enabling environment specially designed for originating Innovation, building Inno-Passion, developing creativity and promoting information sharing for building functional new knowledge for the delivery of all-inclusive technology solutions and support services.
He listed the faculties as includes: e-Government, ICT Innovation platform, Software & Auto-card Platform, Multimedia Centre, Business process platform, e-Library, Research & e-Learning Centre, Cbt Practice & Mentoring Centre.
The DS-IHub is a PPP initiative between the State Government and Mobile Software Solutions – Winner of Would Summit Award for Best Africa Mobile Content 2014 (Lifestyle/Entertainment Category).
“Our mission is to establish a responsive knowledge factory as the core accelerator for Reduction of poverty and wealth creation. We aspire to succeed and we are currently shopping to raise the sum of Ten (10) billion Naira in the next three years in pursuit of building world-class cluster of Intellectual Property (IP) to secure the future of generations yet unborn.
“This fund would be raised through knowledge endowment strategies and equitably dispensed to transform our state and nation from consumers to innovators & creator. Join me to explore the core values of DS-IHUB through the following video clips”, he said.
