Original Ghana Story_A Story of Lack of Local Ingenuity for Technology and Engineering in Ghana

Original Ghana Story_A Story of Lack of Local Ingenuity for Technology and Engineering in Ghana

Imagine if all groups of children that got together during Christmas time in Ghana to build a Christmas hut, decided to advance their designs and build quality each year. And filled them with more and more gadgets they made from scraps each year. And better still maintained their structures and gadgets until they outgrew them.  And then trained the next generation of kids to build the same and coached them to keep improving on them.

Imagine.

Imagine they started this in 1950 with this kids creativity culture unsupervised by adults. And maintained that culture through all the 20 or so generations of kids until the year 2000. This nation would have been a first rate nation by the year 2000.

But no!!

Those creations were short lived and that awesome culture has disappeared all together over time. Not to mention that the designs and build quality of the items never improved. Before we get consumed by political activism, remember that technology is much cooler and that technology is serendipity.

#themoreyouknow

#technology

#creativity

#innovation

#designthinking

#sustainability

#culture

#design

#collaboration

GHANA ELECTIONS 2024: ON THE MATTER OF THE EC USING ONLY THE GHANA CARD TO REGISTER VOTERS FOR THE 2024 ELECTIONS

 

ON THE MATTER OF THE EC USING ONLY THE GHANA CARD TO REGISTER VOTERS FOR THE 2024 ELECTIONS: GHANA ELECTIONS 2024

The new CI can be used to empower both the EC and NIA to get the job done?

The CI should require EC to create a new register using the NIA systems, that way those who already have the Ghana card only show up to verify their names in the register while those who do not have the card are made to register for Ghana card and also get their names into the EC register at the same time. 

Instead of going round and round in futile arguments, a practical and pragmatic arrangement should be put in place to respond to all legitimate concerns. 

It's possible that some backward people still want to cheat in the elections by frustrating any attempts to create a corruption proof system. 

This is where an apex body that operates above the political fray is sorely needed. To insulate the state agencies like NIA and EC from partisan politics and secure the safety of the state. 

#zeitgeistgh 

#FixDemocracy

Of Good Fortune and Serendipity

 

Of Good Fortune and Serendipity

Some will have us believe that it must take 1000 steps to get to the top. That somehow if you learned hard and leaped to the very top with one giant stride, that one should feel uneasy about that type of success.

We should still prefer victory at the first attempt too. And read all about failure as if it was real and learn the lessons without actually experiencing the problems. These chubby rich folks lie about their struggles just to limit the envy people feel.

The point is it's not all blood, sweat and tears. Many worked harder and still lost. Many work hard and only came up with limited success. No one should give the impression that only the few people that worked impossibly hard won success. A good number found success on less than average talent and less than average work.

Not all success stories must take 1000 hard steps. A good student has the power of serendipity at their disposal. Work with it.

#ZeitGeist