On the Need for the Establishment of Centres for Integrated Research in Computing and Agriculture (CiRCA) in African Universities

Centres of excellence are established in world class institutions of higher learning to aid research, innovation, institutional global ranking, visibility, impact and to also cluster academia and practitioners under an umbrella that can create a synergy of mutually benefiting relationships between the gown and the town. These Centres provide a unique platform that allows the integration of knowledge across different disciplines within and outside an institution thus facilitating internationalization, linkages, mentoring and the transformation of knowledge to useful outputs. This paper raises the need to establish a Centre for Integrated Research in Computing and Agriculture (CiRCA) in African Universities in order to annex the potentials and opportunities offered by the nexus of computing and agriculture. . Keywords: Agriculture, Centre of Excellence, Green Computing, Precision Agriculture Proceedings Citation Format Olateju, O.O. (2023): On the Need for the Establishment of Centres for Integrated Research in Computing and Agriculture in African Universities. Proceedings of the 36th iSTEAMS Accra Bespoke Multidisciplinary Innovations Conference. University of Ghana/Academic City University College, Accra, Ghana. 31st May – 2nd June, 2023. Pp 379-384 dx.doi.org