WEEK XI (9th – 13h May, 2016)

DAY 49

Monday 9^th may, 2016 @9am Training Room, we updated our presentation slide Titled “Our fellowship Experience” to be delivered to UEL IT Service Management.

 @2pm WB–Room 1.01, we were privilege to be with the IT service management team where officials from British Computer Society (The Chartered Institute for IT) did a presentation on SFIAplus –The IT skills, training and development standard. The Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) is an international skills and competency framework that describes IT roles and the skills needed for them.  

There after the commonwealth fellows did their presentation to the admiration of all the IT service management. And a short meeting with Gurdish.

DAY 50

Tuesday 10^th May, 2016 @10am, EBG1.01 we had a training on the topic: COPYRIGHT— intellectual property and digital copyright by Naomi Korn an archaeologist, system curator and copyright officer united kingdom (www.naomikorn.com, Email: naomi@naomikorn.com twitter:@nkorn, Skype: naomi.korn). She explain in detail the meaning of copyright as well as digital copyright using simple illustration.

A licensee is an agreement between you as the IP right owner and another party. It grants them permission to do something that would be an infringement of the rights without the licence.

IP can be “licensed-out” or “licensed-in”. You can “license-out” to another company in return for a fee. You can “license-in” if you want to use another company’s IP to develop your own business and products. The person granting the licence is usually called the licensor, and the person receiving the licence is usually called the licensee. There may be more than one licensor or more than one licensee in a licence agreement. Benefits of licensing include: Sharing costs and risk, Revenue generation, increasing market penetration, reducing costs, saving time, Accessing expertise, Obtaining competitive advantage and Collaboration. She talk about Berne Convention in 1886, world intellectual property organization, among other things.  

 

 

DAY 51

 

Wednesday 11^th May, 2016 @11am, room EB3.18, We were taking through the topic: SERVICE SUPPORT, the speaker Richard Todd using a power point presentation, explain to us what Service Support was all about. And that, the roll he play as the Head of Service Support in the University of East London.

 

                Service Management < ------ > Service Support

 

Richard take about the large pieces of work which include student Enrolment, clearance and UCAS Decision Centre. He also mention Open Day, Application Day, Examination Support, university hardware, UEL space, service at 2^nd line, audio visual teaching space, staff recruitment and overcoming the challenges.

 

Thereafter, Sylvia Easy- (did a presentation on the topic: EQUALITY and DIVERSITY. She told us that in university of east London, Equality and diversity is a term used in the United Kingdom to define and champion equality, diversity and human rights as defining values of society. It promotes equality of opportunity for all, giving every individual the chance to achieve their potential, free from prejudice and discrimination.

 

 

 

DAY 52

 

Thursday 12^th May, 2016 @11am, room EB2.43 we had a presentation on the topic: CLOUD SERVICES. The speaker is Jim Watts, IT service Enterprise Architecture. He explain that cloud service is any resources that is provided over the internet. The most common cloud service resources are Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Jim told us that there are; Public Cloud, Private Cloud and Hybrid Cloud. He also mention BaaS – Backup, STaaS—Storage, DRaaS—Disaster Recovery and CaaS- Communication as a Services (Telephony, VIP, etc)

Jim Watts went further to inform us that cloud in UEL – what should you look for? UEL IT Service has a cloud First strategy.

#1 – SaaS- this is the easiest for UEL; they pay and use

#2 – PaaS – If UEL get PaaS integrate with office 365

#3 – IaaS – UEL can’t do this yet.

He also inform us that when buying cloud service, what need to be asked (of the supplier)? 1) Who is the supplier – what happen if the supplier goes out of business. 2) where does the SaaS or PaaS service run from? Outside the EU is problematic for DPA reasons. 3) what resilience, availability and backup does the supplier offer?. When buying cloud service, what need to be asked (of ourselves)? 1) WHAT Data to be stored in the service 2) how do we secure it 3) how will we authenticate it and 4)how we will integrate with it.

Important thought to note include;

§  Cloud is an approach, not a destination

§  Will cloud put us out of jobs? No, but role and skills will change.

§  The actual date in a system become more important to it.

§  Integration is everything.

• In a cloud world, CSVs and Database view don’t work.
• WebAPI`s (Restful, SOAP etc) are king.

These and more he made us to understand in his presentation.

 

DAY 53

Friday 13^th May, 2016 2pm, training room DL1.05, we lunch the commonwealth fellows` alumni website which was midwife by our set (CPF2016 set). Those present during the inauguration include Gurdish Sandhu, Cedrick Nosa, Kulvinder Kalsey, Nadeem Akhtar, Neil Martins. Cake and fruit drinks was shared in celebration of the website www.cpfuelalumni.org. We took turn and explain our activities we have learnt in our blog.