A Namibian college is about to supply a grasp’s diploma in blockchain know-how beginning within the yr 2024, a senior worker with the establishment has mentioned. The college is already “infusing” blockchain technology-based content material into its stage 8 applications.
‘Blockchain Is the Future’
A Namibian larger studying establishment, the College of Namibia (UNAM), is about to supply a blockchain technology-related course beginning in 2024, the college’s head of the IT division, Samuel Nuungulu, has mentioned.
Nuungulu, the chairperson of UNAM’s steering committee on the MSc on blockchain know-how, instructed Bitcoin.com Information that by introducing the diploma program the college hopes to “lay the muse for attainable incubation of tech-startup out of the talents this program would create within the nation.”
Requested why UNAM has chosen to introduce the extent 9 grasp’s diploma program, Nuungulu mentioned:
Blockchain is the long run and we thought it was needed to make use of this diploma as a forerunner in growing these much-needed expertise within the nation and continent at giant.
The chairperson additionally revealed that the college is already “infusing” blockchain technology-based content material into UNAM’s stage 8 applications, which the establishment hopes to serve within the Senate by subsequent yr.
UNAM’s steering committee on the MSc on blockchain additionally contains Gurvy Kavei, an writer who just lately printed a ebook that seeks to assist readers grasp the fundamentals of blockchain know-how and cryptocurrencies. In a current interview with Bitcoin.com Information, Kavei equally confirmed that the college shall be introducing the blockchain course.
He mentioned reviews suggesting the central financial institution is considering issuing a digital foreign money, in addition to proposals to make use of blockchain-based options in each the private and non-private sector, had necessitated the introduction of the diploma program.