Tuesday, 9th March, 2010
Dan and Kei had let us known in our previous session on Sunday about the state of Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH). The university was formed a couple of years back joining 3-4 universities as a seat for Technical Education. The university has some very bright students and are keen to get any opportunity of working with the IBM team to gain more exposure. These students are very eager to leap into any opportunity to work and get more experience. Thus, Greg and myself thought it will be good to take their help for some work that we are doing with the Investment Bureau. We went to CRUTECH along with Vicky in a bright and shiny Yellow pickup van belonging to Department of Public Transport (DOPT). The DOPT team is working to get a website made and they were also more than happy to engage the CRUTECH students and take any help possible.
The campus is really large and impressive. Dan and Kei introduced us to the students and the chief of university. He was really impressed with the developments India had made in the recent past on IT and had the same vision for Nigeria.
Drew gave a very nice presentation on Nigerian Music and Culture in the night followed by Dan's presentation on IBM's Component Business Methodology (CBM). As part of Drew's presentation we were given a good introduction on the evolution of Nigerian Music. He also helped us with basic phrases in Efik and Pidgin English.
Pidgin is a simplified means of communicating in Broken English between 2 groups of people. Its really interesting... Some examples of Pidgin English here
How body? means How are you feeling?
You don chop? means Have you eaten?
I don chop oh. Belly full. means I have eaten. I am full.
You don chop? means Have you eaten?
I don chop oh. Belly full. means I have eaten. I am full.
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