At Open Door Day: Gov’t hails Yaounde Int’l Business School for training innovative professionals.

The commendations were made by some officials from different government ministries.

This was during the YIBS’ 2023 Open Door Day dubbed: “YIBS Tech Groove”. It was organised Tuesday October 17 on the school campus in Yaounde. 

The state officials were representatives of the Ministries of Higher Education, Post and Telecommunication, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Social Economy and Handicrafts, as well as municipal authorities of the Yaounde VI Council.

The YIBS Tech Groove was heavily attended by students, parents, guidance and a host of invitees from all walks of life. 

Following the presentations of various projects conceived and developed by students of the school, the visibly satisfied officials took turns to salute the students and commended the management and the teaching staff of YIBS for the great academic work being done at the school.

They also hailed the school for strides made in moving education towards professionalism as envisaged by the President of the Republic, Paul Biya.

Speaking on behalf of the Minister of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Social Economy and Handicrafts, MINPMESSA, the Inspector No:1, Nathan Ntanen, hailed the initiative of the school administration in showcasing the innovations of students.

Ntanen said the display of the innovations of the students gives him confidence that the country is on the right path to achieving the emergence vision by 3025.

“If we have these young ones who are already performing this wonderful innovations then we believe that emergency by 2035 will be no slogan,” the MINPMESSA official stated. 

YIBS president (2^nd from right) with school officials during open door event

“We want to congratulate the YIBS for the wonderful endeavor. We all know nowadays we don't just want quality theories but practice. We know the motivation is there but today we have seen the innovations and we are comforted,” Ntanen noted. 

The MINPMESSA Inspector No1 then assured that the SMEs ministry is prepared to partner with YIBS “for the betterment of the Cameroonian entrepreneurial ecosystem”.

Echoing the remarks of MINPMESSA official, the representative of the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication, Emmanuel Gabsa, extoled staff and students for their brilliant presentations. 

Gabsa explained that under the new university reforms, higher institutions of learning can be transform into enterprises. 

With the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication being government’s engineer in the ICT domain, the official said they are ready to work with YIBS to develop the different innovations.

“MINPOSTEL has a project which is a digital transformation process that has been supported by the World Bank to the tune of 100 million US dollar. We have a lot of project there that we think that YIBS can gain a lot from that,” Gabsa stated. 

In addition, he said government, through the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications can boast of an Innovation Centre located in Bastos-Yaounde, serving as an incubator for start-uppers and tech entrepreneurs.  

Officials touring projects stands

Initiative to showcase talents

Going by the YIBS President, Godfred Taku, the YIBS Tech Groove is an initiative aimed at effectively instilling in the students innovative and practical skills relating to computer engineering. 

“The motivation for this day was to give opportunity to the students to showcase their talents and what they have learned. The applications that they develop can solve real problems in our society,” the YIBS president stated. 

He said “with a vision to be at the forefront of innovation, YIBS is engaged in training competent and innovative professionals who can sort out major problems in our society using innovative solutions.

Taku said “this also instills in our students the virtue of job creation and innovation”.

As part of its strategic plan, YIBS is in the process of establishing an incubation centre for the different projects developed by its students.

Group of students presenting their project

Projects presented

The 2023 YIBS Tech Groove was marked by a number of projects presented by the students working in teams. The projects cut across health, banking and finance, fight against climate change and education. 

Some of the projects presented included a hospital management system called Health Help, a school management system called YIBS SMS, a school attendance system known as GSM attendance system, a waste collection application called Clean City, a cash management application known as Payam and a host of others. 

One of the project leads, Tamba Joyceline, a software engineering student at YIBS and made a presentation on GSM attendance system.

She explained that their project enable parents to get real time updates on the arrival of their students through a fingerprint registration. 

“Our system uses a Global System mobile telephone, GSM module that enables us to send messages to parents when their children arrives school event without the use of internet. This will help them to know whether their children go late or early to school or even did not attend school at all,” the software engineering student said. 

Also, Afor Nadine Mbong, a student of the Computer engineering department, explained that their project, Youth Connect, is a social media platform created to enhance communication between parents, teachers, students and other institutions in the country. 

Cross view of project teams ready to present conceived, developed innovations

“It has some functionalities like on the social side where one can post and view events. The management side is responsible for handling results, transcripts and registration of students,” Mbong said. 

“We have virtual classrooms where students can have online lecturers irrespective of their location,” she added.    

Why YIBS stands out

According to the YIBS Tech Groove Coordinator, Deyou Cyril, YIBS stands out amongst the rest of higher institutions around as it prides itself of having comfortable learning environment with ultra-clean learning facility, well-equipped laboratories and demonstration halls, high-quality education at affordable rate.

Besides boasting of free internet on campus to promote learning and research, it has professional, dynamic, and friendly staff who ensure the well-being of the students on campus.

Deyou also said YIBS has well-equipped computer laboratory to enhance students with ICT skills with students having the possibilities of gaining numerous scholarships and international recognized health certification,

YIBS, gov’t, municipal officials, other guests immortalising event 

Broad range of training programmes

With a vision to be a citadel that develops competent and innovative professionals to drive performance, Yaounde International Business School offers training for HND, Bachelor, and Masters Degrees.

Its professional programmes include Accountancy, Banking and Finance, Marketing Trade-Sales, Insurance, Software Engineering, Computer Science and Networks, Network and Security, Computer Graphics and Web Design, E-commerce and Digital Marketing, Fashion Design and Clothing, Project Management, Human Resource Management, Customs and Transit Management, Logistics and Transport Management, Port Shipping Management and a host of others.