The Assistant Secretary-General for Technology at the United Nations representing Mozambique, Bernardo Mariano, defended, this Friday in Maputo, the need for investment in information processing to identify business opportunities.

Sharing his experience at the Eduardo Mondlane University, Mariano alerted, for example, to the investment in small industries that solve primary needs.

"Mozambique spends about three million dollars on toilet paper imports. This is important information. Why not invest in an industry that makes this material?", he questioned, stressing the need to produce the things we import. "So data science is going to allow visibility into that area."

In this sense, from SG's perspective, academies should invest in training data scientists, because in recent times there tend to be job opportunities, mainly in the private sector.

"In the United Nations we are changing the system of attracting talent in that area because it is no longer an attraction that needs years of experience to have a good salary. A specialist is very rotational. so the university has to train these young people," he warned.

The Assistant Secretary-General in Technology at the United Nations representing Mozambique participated, on Friday, as a speaker in the lecture on Digital Transformation, Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Institutions, at UEM.