The Angola CIO Summit 30 event was held yesterday in Luanda (Thursday 05/2013), under the theme “The Impact of Information Technology on Business“, Organized by IDC - Analyze the Future. Sala Brasil at Hotel Epic Sana was full of executives, business administrators and CIO's (IT Managers) of companies of all sizes, operating in the Angolan market.
According to the description of the event, the CIO Summit 2013 aimed to highlight the important role of information technologies in establishing a healthy competitiveness of Angolan companies, presenting and approaching the solutions, experiences and know-how of Portuguese companies to the Angolan business reality.
The agenda for the day was composed of four panels of lectures and debates. Among the speakers, Gabriel Coimbra, General Director of IDG, spoke about “Trends in the technology market in Angola and in the world”, Luís Pereira, from MicroStrategy, with the theme “The mobile revolution”, Paulo de Mendonça Dias, from Infinite, who spoke about “Information Security in Business and Government Environment” and Mário Rui Santos, from Wavecom, who spoke about “Wireless Networks”.
Prof. Carlos Rosado de Carvalho (Editorial Consultant of Jornal Expansão) and representatives of the sponsoring companies, such as Sendys, SSI Angola, i2S, Kofax, Innovation Makers, Prisma - Training Institute, Advantis Solutions, MetaCase and RISI.
The event also served to bring these Portuguese companies closer to possible Angolan partners / clients, to network and generate new business opportunities. According to what has been said, the biggest challenges for Angolan companies are the lack of qualified human resources, poor telecommunication conditions and high IT infrastructure costs.
It is estimated that Angola will have a growth in the order of 10% in the coming years, local companies are already beginning to adhere to the use of IT's and taking into account the high number of mobile phone users that already exceeds 7,5 million, the Angolan market has become a sea of opportunities to be explored. It will be up to Angolan companies to take advantage of Portuguese partners in the best possible way to guarantee the country's sustainable growth.
Dear Sirs,
my thanks for organizing the CIO Summit 2013 event on IT, a commendable initiative for the good of society.
The challenge for Angolan companies with the lack of qualified human resources, the important thing for the good of companies and society in Angola is to invest in the training of staff and other courses of overcoming so that they master the tools and can give a complete answer in all their tasks.
That more events of the kind be organized for the good of Angolan society.
Ass .:
Eduardo Albertino Vuala.
Eduardo fully agree with you, because it is useless to have the latest equipment when there is no trained personnel to work with it. Training above all to have good professionals.
The talk of lack of trained personnel exists in everyone. When companies do not want to hire or just want to hire their own, they always use this conversation of lack of trained personnel.
We can go a long way in this conversation. What do you consider trained personnel? Do you think someone leaves college qualified to do everything? How many pictures do we know who are thrown to their fate? They studied at major universities abroad. Some returned because they were able to achieve what they cannot have here.
I don't think we can be wrong with this conversation. Those who have already got a job should be supportive of those who have not yet managed. Those who have not yet succeeded cannot be considered useless, as being unskilled. I can guarantee you one thing. Those who never work will never be qualified.