The 2024 English West African Instructors event, organised by Cisco Networking Academy in conjunction with Dominion University, Ibadan.

Technology has been identified as the modern day tool that will help to end hunger and poverty in our modern world, especially in West and Central Africa.
This was expressed by speakers at the 2024 English West and Central Africa Instructors’ Event, organised by Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation (CISCO) Networking Academy in partnership with Dominion University, Ibadan. This year’s event, which was held at Dominion University, commemorates the 25th anniversary of the digital academy in providing industry- specific solutions that improve productivity and operational efficiency. The technologically inclined networking academy is also in the business of laying foundations for tomorrow’s Internet of Things (IoT) opportunities. This year’s theme is tagged, ‘The Future of Work.’

At this year’s event, the Cisco Networking Academy General Manager, Laura Quintana welcomed instructors from both the West and Central African English speaking countries and in her speech, Quintana identified some of the African and Southern American students who had benefited from the networking academy. They were able to stamp out poverty and hunger from their families because of this Cisco initiative. She also noted that since the launch of the networking academy 25 years ago, over 20.5 million learners have benefitted from it. The Academy has also trained over 29,000 instructors who cut across 190 countries.
On his part, the Programme Manager of Cisco Networking Academy, Mr. Imoh Akpan noted that Safari conference is an annual event that is organised for English speaking instructors in West and Central Africa. The aim of Safari, according to him, is to raise and maintain the quality of instruction by offering quality technical restraining sessions to instructors, to provide programme updates on the new curriculum, which includes technical updates on tech trends, education trends and courseware. Mr Akpan informed participants that the 2024 event will avail them the opportunity to acquire knowledge and develop skills through keynotes addresses to be delivered by technology experts. He also said they would break the conference into sessions that will ‘bring enhanced value to their academics’.