You went into private business, if elected, how do you intend to inject your experience to help the state? Good question, I have a background in engineering, my focus has always been mass transit especially railways. I have a company called Railnet which serves as a consultancy service to the Federal Ministry of Transport where they are planning to expand the existing colonial network. I also bided for a concession to provide private railway. Looking at the railways, if you talk about cost effective movement of goods and people, rails is the best. Imagine if Ibaka Seaport is completed and there is a link by rail from there to the boarders of Ikot Ekpene and Abia. These are commercial destinations these experience can come into use if I am elected the governor. I am also into ICT, I launched a company in Hong Kong called IDM an interactive data management service. In IDM, we build mobile applications, there are so many mobile apps but ours is different and can only be compared to google, it is called LUGA, while google provides all information on a subject, LUGA provides specific information. If you ask google how many oil wells that are in Akwa Ibom, it provides all information on oil wells but LUGA simply answers, “there are three oil…” so rather than look for a commissioner to ask questions, you just browse and get it, Akwa Ibom people will benefit greatly because the online information desk will provide these information for both public and private sector. We have just finished the prototype and we are launching it this year that is why I spend a lot of time in Asia. All over the world, young people are inventing products that empowers them economically and financially. If Akwa Ibom youths are empowerd ICT wise, they can excel, that explains why the technology village that Attah build would have helped the youths if it has been completed, it would have served as an incubator for ICT ideas. There is a campus in Hong Kong where young people that have ICT ideas are given offices, secretarial support to operate for free, they have one year to develop a software of what have you, after they graduate, new sets of kids are brought in, imagine how many kids have been taken off the streets, if I am given the chance, such idea will be brought to bare in Akwa Ibom. A young kid of about 16 years old in Hong Kong developed a software that that summarizes newspapers, so business men and women who are too busy to read the whole newspapers will just click and get summary of the newspapers. A company in UK bought the software from him with $16 million what of Facebook is it not a kid that developed it? Akwa Ibom and Lagos have the largest ICT leaders, if you want to employ and expert, go to these states. I know what it takes to roll out an application and it can come handy when I govern - Mr Larry Esin
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:23:27 +0000
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