User:Sfashoto
Dr. Stephen Gbenga Fashoto is presently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, University of Swaziland, Kwaluseni, Swaziland. He was formerly the Director of ICT in Kampala International University, Kampala, Uganda. He was a Post Doctoral fellow in the Department of Decision Sciences, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. He was a Lecturer in Department of Computer Science in Redeemer's University, Ede, Nigeria between 2007 and 2014. The Chair of the Computational Intelligence and Health Informatics Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Swaziland. I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Ilorin, Nigeria, M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Port harcourt, Nigeria and B.Sc. [Hons.] in Computer Science and mathematics from University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
My interest in Free Open Source Software(FOSS) stems from the belief that instructors and students cannot survive in software development and programming generally without the support of Open Source Software community especially in the developing countries. I confirmed the above statement to be true having lecture programming languages in Four different countries in Africa(Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda and South Africa).
The present significant opportunities by Professors of Open Source Software Experience(POSSE) on the different activities we have been working on for the three weeks as an instructors has exposed me to so many new things in the area of teaching open source software which will enable me to contribute to academic development in the area of teaching programming languages using open source software.
My interest in HFOSS project is in OpenMRS because my key research interest now is in Health Informatics and i love the application of Computing and mathematical modelling to different areas of human endeavour especially to health related issues in Africa.
From 2017/2018 Academic session i will introduce my year one students to LINUX/UNIX operating system instead of to only windows operating system as usual in the past in my course titled "Introduction to Computer Science" and i will introduce my year two to the use of C++ using open source software on LINUX/Unix OS. And lastly, I will emphasise on the HFOSS project as a case study in our programming courses and in our research group. And finally i will propose to my HOD the need to improve three of our courses for a start based on the HFOSS project (Introduction to Data Mining, Programming languages and Database Management System).
