Source: Cameroon Tribune 
A new curriculum under the patronage of Cameroonian's First Lady will be launched soon by IAI Cameroon.

African Institute of Computer Science dubbed IAI Cameroun-"Centre d'Excellence Technologique Paul Biya" is intensifying its programme to train more Cameroonians in the use of Information and Communication technologies (ICTs). After an operation to train 100,000 women in the use of ICTs before 2012, the institution will on Friday, March 13, 2015 launch a new operation dubbed Operation MIJEF by 2035 with the First Lady of the country, Mrs Chantal Biya as the national matron. During the launching of operation MIJEF which hopes to train 1,000,000 children, youths and women in the use of ICTs by 2035, a Golden Book to commemorate the first Operation 100,000 women by 2012 will be dedicated.

In an editorial on the institution's magazine, the President of the Board of Directors of IAI, Alex Bernard Bongo Ondimba noted that Operation 100,000 Women has come and gone, but more women are still to be trained on ICTs. It is within this backdrop that in the days ahead, Operation MIJEF 2035 will be launched with the aim of training millions of children, youth and women on ICTs for the emergence of Cameroon in 2035. The programme has as objective to build the capacities of the concerned as well as opening new avenues for women and youths so that they can participate in the drawing up of the county's development strategies.

The country's representative of IAI Cameroun, Armand Claude Abanda, in a write-up underlined that training within Operation MIJEF 2035 ties with the country's long-term development programme contained in the Growth and Employment Strategy Paper. It consists in training averagely 50,000 youths and children across the country per year. It is also revealed that the training will be on office work, Internet use, the working of the social media, and innovative use of the Internet in relations with development visions (Telemedicine, E-Commerce, E-Agriculture and E-Banking amongst others). Based on the needs that will be expressed by the trainees, the training could be completed by specific modules on business creation and management, on drawing up and management of projects, accounting and human resource management.

While revealing that IAI is an untiring lawyer in the development of ICTs in accompanying Cameroon to become an emerging country in 2035 Armand Claude Abanda noted in the school's magazine that operation 100,000 women before 2012 registered a brilliant success thanks to the constant support of Cameroon's First Lady. The operation permitted women to create and apply for new jobs, try other opportunities, break barriers and enabled women to be connected with other women in a bid to have a broader vision about the future. By the time the operation was coming to an end, some 103,350 Cameroonian women had been trained in the use of ICT in 53 towns during 629 training sessions in the 10 regions of the country.

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