Blue Apple To Facilitate IEC Young Professionals Programme

Nosa Alekhuogie

The Nigerian National Electrotechnical Committee (NN-IEC) and Blue Apple, are set to work together to facilitate the setting up of the IEC Young Professionals Programme in Nigeria. The collaboration 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.

Close to 20,000 experts from industry, commerce, government, test and research laboratories, academia and consumer groups participate in IEC Standardisation work.

The programne, known as the IEC Young Professionals (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 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.

Both bodies believe that the collaboration would expose Nigeria’s young population to ideas that could lift the industrial sector of this nation to the next phase of the industrial revolution.

Blue Apple, which is a STEM organisation with a subsidiary 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.

In 2019, the organisation launched an Integrated National Technology Blueprint to train young people in Emerging Technologies through its Techhub Academy and also initiated a Hands and Brain Innovative Technology Summit, which it is partnering with NOTAP. Blue Apple recently signed an MoA with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Nigeria Section to collaborate in areas of concern.

The formation of the IEC-YP programne is ahead of the planned inauguration of the newly constituted Nigeria National Committee.