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| Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu. |
Sanwo-Olu further
disclosed that Lagos is pushing forward by leveraging technology and Internet
connectivity to deliver quality education to pupils in public schools in line
with Goals 4, 9, and 10 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs).
The Governor emphasised
that the projected outcomes of his administration’s education policy would lead
to increased productivity and human resources, which, in turn, would keep the
Lagos economy resilient.
Sanwo-Olu made the
disclosure when giving his remark at the Concordia Summit, a high power global
side forum at the ongoing 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly
(UNGA) in New York, United States.
The Lagos Governor
joined three other panellists in the event that focused on the theme: Building
Resilient Economies on the Basis of Education, Technology and Access.
Sanwo-Olu said Lagos
would be witnessing fundamental transformation in the deployment of technology
to deliver quality services in different sectors of the state's economy.
The Governor said the
State had finalised partnership agreement with an international tech-based
education consultant to begin the process of digitising school curriculum, with
the objective to promote accountability in the delivery of quality education.
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He said: “Lagos has a
huge statistics in school distribution, which is greater than the total number
of schools in some smaller African countries. Despite this huge number in
supply, there is a little challenge in delivering quality instruction.
"In the last four
months of our administration, we have been designing a process that will be
leveraging technology as key enabler to upscale quality and promote openness in
the delivery of education curriculum."
“We are on the verge of
digitising the school curriculum. This effort is being done in partnership with
an international tech-based education consultant, which has elements of success
in deploying tech tools to deliver quality and affordable education. We are
embarking on extensive teachers’ training to ensure that the projected outcomes
of this innovation are achieved. All of these are set in motion to boost human
recourses, which would result in increased productivity and the resilience of
the Lagos economy.” Sanwo-Olu said.
Public schools, the
Governor pointed out, would also have access to the Internet infrastructure to
aid teaching and learning through tech devices that would be supplied later to
the schools.
Sanwo-Olu said the
tools would allow the government to determine the aptitude of individual pupils
and monitor their academic progress. He added that private schools would be
co-opted into the new system to ensure uniformity in learning culture.
“We are digitising the
learning culture in our schools for them to be run in line with our education
objectives. We want all schools to develop the same learning content, which
would bridge the gap of quality and create the same output at the end of the
term. It will also allow us to check private schools to ensure that they are
teaching from the curriculum we have agreed,” the Governor said.
Sanwo-Olu also said the
ongoing deployment of metropolitan fibre optics by his administration in
collaboration with a leading telecommunication firm would stabilise Internet
connectivity required by tech start-ups as well as Small and Medium Enterprises
(SMEs) to boost e-Commerce and increase access to healthcare across State.
Other panellists at the
forum are Chief Executive Officer of the World Innovation Summit for Education
(WISE), Stavros Yiannouka; Columbian Minister for Information and Communication
Technology, Sylvia Cristina ConstaÃn Rengifo; Mayor of Athens in Greece, Kostas
Bakoyannis. The session was moderated by Asia Correspondent for CBS News, Ramy
Inocencio.
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