In spite of losing the moments covered, I’m pleased to share with you a small view of the campaigns I conducted including the one at Rwanda Polytechnic Kigali College. The campaigns were fruitful and very engaged. Rwanda Polytechnic is a technical university that provide hands on skills including Information Technology faculty. Here is a summary of the discussion I had with IT faculty students.

To be realistic, from a risk perspective, acknowledge that most of the environmental risks are outside of our control and that our traditional mitigation strategies may need to evolve. Understand the broader landscape of risks, our priority use cases, and revisit our risk tolerance while considering technology automation, speed, and agility.

To adapt our capabilities to address the increasing risks concerning the industrialization and development in general. This could mean investing in new tools, revising or implementing technology management processes, and standing up new devices, as well as hiring additional talents that match the development extent particularly in the industrial aspect.

To build partner relationships as technology experts with environmental institutions and government to promote resilience across environmental supply chain, and develop an operating model to determine how they would address a breach in the ecosystem.

By closing we understood that the changing nature of industrialization is driving the next facet of transformation, and that technology is no longer an indicator of development but, rather, a solution for concerned tragedies. There has been also a renaissance within Governments and civil societies understanding that technology is important for environmental risks mitigation.