Blue Apple to facilitate IEC young professionals programme in Nigeria

The Nigerian National Electrotechnical Committee (NN-IEC) has stated its readiness to work with Blue Apple to facilitate the setting up of the IEC Young Professionals Programme in Nigeria.

This, according to the management of NN-IEC, is to improve the transfer of technologies and experiences of mentoring young electrical and electronics engineering professionals.

The  International  Electrotechnical  Commission  (IEC),  which  is  a not-for-profit, quasi-governmental organisation is the world’s leading organisation that prepares and  publishes  International  Standards  for  all  electrical,  electronic  and  related technologies.

Founded in 1906, the IEC is one of three global sister organisations (IEC, ISO, ITU) that develop International Standards for the world and provides a platform to companies, industries and governments for meeting, discussing and developing the International Standards they require.

According to a statement from the organisation, which was released in Lagos last week, close to 20,000 experts from industry, commerce, government, test and research laboratories, academia and consumer groups participate in IEC Standardisation work.  The IEC has a programme for youths, which serves as a platform for the mentorship of  the  younger  generation  to  become the  future  leaders  of international standardisation and conformity assessment.

This programme is known as the IEC Young Professionals (IEC YP) Programme. For participants and their organisation, the  IEC  YP  Programme  offers  an  important  networking  platform  and a  unique opportunity to help shape international standardisation and conformity assessment work. The IEC benefits from the increased participation of young experts who bring new ideas to its activities.

The statement said: “The World Bank has recommended that Nigeria needs to make the most of her demographic  dividend  to  improve  her  economy  and  lift  its  extremely  poor population. “Demographic dividend, as defined by the United Nations Population Fund,  means  the  economic  growth  potential  that  can  result  from  shifts  in a population’s age structure, mainly when the share of the working-age population is  larger  than  the  non-working-age  share  of  the  population.

“Nigeria’s young working-age people can be capitalised to be a productive member of the society and contribute to the GDP as this would help to reduce inequality and poverty rate.

“One of the means by which this can be achieved is by taking advantage of the platform created by this IEC YP programme. This we believe would expose our young population to ideas that can lift the industrial sector of this nation to the next phase of the industrial revolution.”

It will be recalled that Blue Apple, which is a STEM organisation with a subsidiary of National Engineering Codes and Standards Group, is involved in an array of activities that include the promotion of the National Engineering and Science Technology Essay Competition (NESTEC) among undergraduate engineering students in institutions of higher learning in Nigeria.

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