tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492793301949765422024-03-20T13:12:54.442-07:00PAKAR Erst RevealedAn initiative in support of and an advocacy for the realization of real value of human capital in Ghana. The need for an efficient and balanced skilled people equipped to perform all manner of craftmanships for the Development of Ghana - Rueckkehrer Wissenschaftler.PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-12546092951517236472023-11-17T18:59:00.000-08:002023-11-18T01:00:06.873-08:00Time to critically manage Ghana's talent pool and fiercely protect the built capacity.<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Time to critically manage Ghana's talent pool and fiercely protect the built capacity.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Please leave a comment</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij55zLeYhWrIN-NxTgiXuL-Tlkw6lpi8kpmgBgxeythzdS1_Nj4DfJxEjhkbmHXSaGcFLoW6JX8nvyT90K0iJwNmJifim0cRTkrI2bu9R-t1yUVm9yH_siDQp_keTGZqZbn_gwqOE8slwY3dJTfLKJIRUM7jBTb3RseJJG5jhnldVS-8ECUCaa8TwM0rtB/s1280/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-11-18%20at%2002.46.19.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="882" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij55zLeYhWrIN-NxTgiXuL-Tlkw6lpi8kpmgBgxeythzdS1_Nj4DfJxEjhkbmHXSaGcFLoW6JX8nvyT90K0iJwNmJifim0cRTkrI2bu9R-t1yUVm9yH_siDQp_keTGZqZbn_gwqOE8slwY3dJTfLKJIRUM7jBTb3RseJJG5jhnldVS-8ECUCaa8TwM0rtB/w441-h640/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-11-18%20at%2002.46.19.jpeg" width="441" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Not to downplay their important achievements and brilliant talents. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I find it odd that the only profession Ghana science students know is medicine. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That is very very odd. The best way is for the top science students to be distributed </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">across all the major science based professions. That strengthens the practice of medicine itself and brings more progress to the society. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Majority of these doctors run away after graduating because of their love for money over service to society. The society that paid for their expensive training.
It's important that medical training in the public Universities is provided to bonded students only. Students bonded to serve Ghana for their entire career. When they travel for further studies they should be bonded to return immediately after training.
This is because their training is exceptionally expensive and those providing the training and society that supports the training must benefit fully for their success.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Those who want the freedom to practice their careers outside Ghana should either pay full fees or refund their scholarships in full with interest. That is if they leave within 20 years of graduating. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> Don’t keep saying Ghana dieee, Ghana dieee, Ghana dieee. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When you were 6 years old and knew nothing, it took the same great teachers, Ghana and your parents to nurture you to become a professional. Think deeply. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Global experience is wonderful and resources from Ghanaians earning higher income from abroad is good. But if our collective attitudes continue to impoverish our nation and keep sending her management into the hands of the IMF repeatedly for 18 times in the last 60 years then we all have very important questions to answer. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Certainly the remittances of all the Ghanaian professionals outside is not making any real difference. It’s just a patch of band aid over a dirty wound.
Check this picture of sharply rising Ghanaian graduates traveling abroad.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We need to start creating a system to balance and manage our talent pool. Many have traveled over the past decades and many have returned to build institutions in Ghana, it is no longer dry and desperate. We need to manage and protect the limited capacity we have created and leap to the next level of building our own miracles. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The rate of exodus continues unabated and no one is asking the important questions. Where are the mothers of this nation? And where are the fathers of this nation? Why do we suffer so much dysfunction even though we have many rich resources? Resources that for centuries attracted marauding and hostile visitors to our shores.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdPqcOkx-vnSguUg0KdZ9AnEP-HwJWLeKGy85P5qN_ldmAKjD-6eFjeLn2Aw3gf0YnKO_5V0V13d-s1oTY5gSYHIQJfsx_w9-TTd581ma-LHhc9ggAEqZcQaqnqKYXlsfZQS_zqxob-HJjS_rAAYI2Jq7YOKP9mNAGqy1YxPVFsATD1ZuDzaZ9f5XVcsq/s1280/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-11-18%20at%2002.46.19%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdPqcOkx-vnSguUg0KdZ9AnEP-HwJWLeKGy85P5qN_ldmAKjD-6eFjeLn2Aw3gf0YnKO_5V0V13d-s1oTY5gSYHIQJfsx_w9-TTd581ma-LHhc9ggAEqZcQaqnqKYXlsfZQS_zqxob-HJjS_rAAYI2Jq7YOKP9mNAGqy1YxPVFsATD1ZuDzaZ9f5XVcsq/w640-h640/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-11-18%20at%2002.46.19%20(1).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Q&A Section:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Q1. What if you bond us and we just resign and refuse to work?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A1.</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They didn’t teach you anything about ethical reasoning and moral principles.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After SHS when you knew next to nothing, would you have appreciated comments like yours at the medical school interview?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You and your trainers who have the knowledge and experience to work for the highest bidder? And yet they found it in themselves to remember who they are and where they were born.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You also need to do the same.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Q2: Currently 50% of medical students pay full fees.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A2:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div>Those who pay for themselves.</div><div>YES.</div><div><br /></div><div>NO one can be stopped from traveling but it should be organized to prevent dysfunction.</div><div><br /></div><div>Those who bear the burden of running those schools get a worse deal overall than their trainees. </div><div><br /></div><div>So as long as the some people have sacrificed to train you, care ought to taken to NOT destroy the built capacity. Most medical schools require experienced students to support the training of their juniors.</div></span></div><div><br /></div>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-36008868771656645732023-07-12T18:23:00.000-07:002023-07-12T18:23:10.152-07:00High Office Not for People with Dual Citizenship and Divided Allegiance<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> <span style="font-family: arial;">High Office Not for People with Dual Citizenship and Divided Allegiance</span></b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_QisMrQkO0-RlTti1neBJ_IXHetU7rLt3vEgp5RYqBhVceEzD7FxbUSxxxEje3cXMFOHNLpVxTiKttBhC-EYQWpJNRC4rtugAuOp_vqCrxEUhVcY4NOBUNm8zixOdMzUteHYNforFIY3p5jWi2bhGip30s96ttTts0dDKK8XZNlvLJRzyYOGA0zrc8aOv/s851/FB_IMG_1689210298502.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_QisMrQkO0-RlTti1neBJ_IXHetU7rLt3vEgp5RYqBhVceEzD7FxbUSxxxEje3cXMFOHNLpVxTiKttBhC-EYQWpJNRC4rtugAuOp_vqCrxEUhVcY4NOBUNm8zixOdMzUteHYNforFIY3p5jWi2bhGip30s96ttTts0dDKK8XZNlvLJRzyYOGA0zrc8aOv/s16000/FB_IMG_1689210298502.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The assertion that citizenship and allegiance is ambiguous as pointed out by the Supreme court, so the James Joe Gyakye Quayson's criminal trial should be discontinued is NOT correct. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The ambiguity associated with the question of allegiance is on the basis that allegiance is a moral character which can be corrupted. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">That doesn't mean that it can be completely decoupled from citizenship. Possessing the citizenship documents of another country is evidence of allegiance until otherwise proven to be null and void. In the absence of such a proof, it is only the complete renunciation of that other country's citizenship that the status of unalloyed allegiance be ascertained.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If citizenship of another country is not renounced and a proof of a broken or sworn allegiance is used to stand in its place, that offensive conduct can be forgiven in order that the other country's citizenship be allowed to continue to stand and persist. That act of forgiveness can be offered unilaterally or upon pleadings, either way acts of betrayal do NOT definitively and automatically cancel citizenship. No way.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So a person with citizenship to another country owes that country an allegiance by default until renunciation of citizenship is complete. And in the case of conflict or prosecution such a person can take cover in that country and they will refuse extradition. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It is only a complete renunciation of citizenship that will disempower the other country from exercising it's overreaching powers of protecting its citizens at all cost especially when it possesses superior military power.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The swearing of an oath of allegiance by MPs, therefore does not by itself cancel the same allegiance already sworn to another country. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">It's just an affirmation of an existing allegiance wholly owed to Ghana without doubt or infidelity. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">That fidelity of allegiance without any doubt must be true and unquestionable at the time of completing the forms to contest.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Applying to renounce one's citizenship of another country by itself is not enough. That renunciation application must have been recieved, processed and accepted and a certificate of renunciation issued for it to be complete. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Enough of the distractions and distortions.</b> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The criminal prosecution of James Joe Gyakye Quayson cannot be wished away with political theater. Especially by the same goons who set the precedence and killed an "innocent" person in the process.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">#FixDemocracy </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">#BeingTRUTH</span></div>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-67753404549646144282023-02-25T02:03:00.003-08:002023-02-25T02:03:28.950-08:00Original Ghana Story_A Story of Lack of Local Ingenuity for Technology and Engineering in Ghana<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Original Ghana Story_A Story of Lack of Local Ingenuity for Technology and Engineering in Ghana</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8MRcAQEtQDiCJCTbJ1EIIJ6zkSRfsH8e4kglXcWsFdtl9IvFFzwtpPD_m_da9_dw1FhG8xTsifDBnD8BlXkt1dALTcxQXBbxAb8KEu8Sf4b2fqdXvAk3Hh3rVegWAt6xHOOcXH6v6LYkW1th4oxnznZtIQuPXPm4ZSg_Y5XaVHf_fXhQMvyAHcreow/s640/Original%20Ghana%20Story.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8MRcAQEtQDiCJCTbJ1EIIJ6zkSRfsH8e4kglXcWsFdtl9IvFFzwtpPD_m_da9_dw1FhG8xTsifDBnD8BlXkt1dALTcxQXBbxAb8KEu8Sf4b2fqdXvAk3Hh3rVegWAt6xHOOcXH6v6LYkW1th4oxnznZtIQuPXPm4ZSg_Y5XaVHf_fXhQMvyAHcreow/w640-h480/Original%20Ghana%20Story.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Imagine.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But no!!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">#themoreyouknow</b></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>#technology</b></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>#creativity</b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>#innovation</b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>#designthinking</b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>#sustainability</b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>#culture</b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>#design</b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>#collaboration</b></div></b></span><p></p>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-58540456354587285602023-02-24T18:26:00.002-08:002023-02-24T18:26:27.270-08:00GHANA ELECTIONS 2024: ON THE MATTER OF THE EC USING ONLY THE GHANA CARD TO REGISTER VOTERS FOR THE 2024 ELECTIONS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx-nusz918cEMhBKBmjiieMNre5BFQOWYwJ3f9LLizbdAq02U4WKZQvoRXThUR3v-XX4QS4OFsWnfqdwxN3eTGkeaxOUuenGT-LcMWZsOZyQHN7H9WRQtfycJNZj_1KrkHESM7W9gqvfWJ-SeVjSctRwJb937zZS7nDEya7nGiNlSyhyjbArpX0XGuEQ/s1234/GHANA%20ELECTIONS%202024.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="1234" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx-nusz918cEMhBKBmjiieMNre5BFQOWYwJ3f9LLizbdAq02U4WKZQvoRXThUR3v-XX4QS4OFsWnfqdwxN3eTGkeaxOUuenGT-LcMWZsOZyQHN7H9WRQtfycJNZj_1KrkHESM7W9gqvfWJ-SeVjSctRwJb937zZS7nDEya7nGiNlSyhyjbArpX0XGuEQ/w640-h514/GHANA%20ELECTIONS%202024.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">ON THE MATTER OF THE EC USING ONLY THE GHANA CARD TO REGISTER VOTERS FOR THE 2024 ELECTIONS: GHANA ELECTIONS 2024</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The new CI can be used to empower both the EC and NIA to get the job done?</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It's possible that some backward people still want to cheat in the elections by frustrating any attempts to create a corruption proof system. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">#zeitgeistgh </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">#FixDemocracy</span></div>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-33406528063629101922023-02-24T18:19:00.006-08:002023-02-24T18:19:58.410-08:00Of Good Fortune and Serendipity<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAVpL1J3PSbjj44YbO6Pd1uAB50_EjWVANPP5dRFZa8wlMNgwTwjfPrTOHXs-q2-CnnZnv59h5I03CbVDlm17Nd0lmrSWOk8BAB9eq4eDmbV58-Rc0sBRoJ0j8epVVOxjNwGKNXfTtCpezOMrdEGzUoszaXQ4v26sSDZHnmNrY3OkH3MFydTWMOSttxg/s1200/Serendipity-Day.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAVpL1J3PSbjj44YbO6Pd1uAB50_EjWVANPP5dRFZa8wlMNgwTwjfPrTOHXs-q2-CnnZnv59h5I03CbVDlm17Nd0lmrSWOk8BAB9eq4eDmbV58-Rc0sBRoJ0j8epVVOxjNwGKNXfTtCpezOMrdEGzUoszaXQ4v26sSDZHnmNrY3OkH3MFydTWMOSttxg/w640-h640/Serendipity-Day.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Of Good Fortune and Serendipity</b></span></p><div dir="auto"><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Not all success stories must take 1000 hard steps. A good student has the power of serendipity at their disposal. Work with it.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: #1877f2;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">#ZeitGeist</span></span></p></div>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-18368597067823185222022-11-16T22:25:00.001-08:002022-11-16T22:25:15.277-08:00 Questions for the undercover agent Anas:<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7PuzJFlwyfbRU3EKKzSIQPQqkWnnYHGcCyRVbGkAf4SFc8TNldOjsnSeWjyFtjghLOjWRdaDNukMzDpKI07rL8ax5tXVXVTObSxq6AgILZAkS6kjNyYvgWKhfMdU8R-KYOCnwzMdN_vfTVZZDKZpSqvQGsYzgAhNcsRFWqpvPp_VSvNurDcMstM5HcQ/s1920/b303-p1384-independence-square-in-ghana-black-star-square.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7PuzJFlwyfbRU3EKKzSIQPQqkWnnYHGcCyRVbGkAf4SFc8TNldOjsnSeWjyFtjghLOjWRdaDNukMzDpKI07rL8ax5tXVXVTObSxq6AgILZAkS6kjNyYvgWKhfMdU8R-KYOCnwzMdN_vfTVZZDKZpSqvQGsYzgAhNcsRFWqpvPp_VSvNurDcMstM5HcQ/w400-h300/b303-p1384-independence-square-in-ghana-black-star-square.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Questions for the undercover agent Anas:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1. How many other reports have not been released for some reasons? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">2. What is the proof that the raw footages have not been spliced together to favor the undercover agent’s selected narratives?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">3. Is there a recording of the desktop processes leading to the creation of the video that was shown to the public?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">4. Has there been an independent and transparent review of the validity of the video editing process to assure public that they are not being fooled?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">5. Do you and your people accept that past results do not guarantee future performance? As the investment companies say? That the Anas we knew years ago maybe using the public trust for personal benefits now?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">6. How do we guarantee that the citizens do not become the ultimate victims?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">7. Can you open your source data for open and independent accreditation?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">8. Can you upload all the raw footages for public scrutiny?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">9. Did your team acquire a Broadview video recording that allows independent analysis to ascertain that those caught are not being help to ransom by a one sided video?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">10. Were the baits recognized investors or they were actors?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">11. The fight against corruption and abuse of power, wouldn’t it be better to use asset declarations and compulsory investigations into unexplained wealth as the accepted method? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rather than a whole nation relying on a “sacred dark agent”?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">12. It’s been 20 years of Anas undercover reports, isn’t it time to move to a more appropriate method of dealing with corruption?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">13. Shouldn’t all person’s in the chain of custody and stewardship be required to swear with their lives to ensure that all cases of corruption will be dealt with?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Just like Prison Officers and Arms depot officers held liable for the prisoners and armament in their custody?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">#undercoverQuestions</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Yf_RVBaj5IqZao9HMGdB8Mkj6IaaRrvJT78JX-BiAJvQeOAB1_gdGFyuhc3EpP8ypsx221Qg97xM6Ad0Rp9oLNx9v7CEAOXnyUcF88hbTWuM_RiwHYvqpZoTrBO9llTPaHcsoclsOJzqsT3T4dY6lK8F4IPM4nwHqETsTvM1V7q2ldQ-EF1e-3a-Ng/s954/Independence%20Square.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="954" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Yf_RVBaj5IqZao9HMGdB8Mkj6IaaRrvJT78JX-BiAJvQeOAB1_gdGFyuhc3EpP8ypsx221Qg97xM6Ad0Rp9oLNx9v7CEAOXnyUcF88hbTWuM_RiwHYvqpZoTrBO9llTPaHcsoclsOJzqsT3T4dY6lK8F4IPM4nwHqETsTvM1V7q2ldQ-EF1e-3a-Ng/w400-h246/Independence%20Square.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></p>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-87403574267035277982022-01-25T12:47:00.004-08:002022-01-25T12:47:59.151-08:00 ITS TIME FOR THE BIG UNIVERSITIES IN GHANA TO CHARGE FEES:<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">ITS TIME FOR THE BIG UNIVERSITIES IN GHANA TO CHARGE FEES:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg04pF2nZKyir4LaNr8H64K3g0U-gU_UJ54shOWSJFset7lrSgqvL4MN_LAfQfCNonEi5OCJmWzQniM8JGBY8d-FMLzZb0hyeZ3ZEbtSDRrUYOgCBQywg2i50pt182jYZagraoOlgLALVGxQNr4035FyP5bZTdDTX4yiEZEyfERI8djySFMHFRAb60ybg=s800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="800" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg04pF2nZKyir4LaNr8H64K3g0U-gU_UJ54shOWSJFset7lrSgqvL4MN_LAfQfCNonEi5OCJmWzQniM8JGBY8d-FMLzZb0hyeZ3ZEbtSDRrUYOgCBQywg2i50pt182jYZagraoOlgLALVGxQNr4035FyP5bZTdDTX4yiEZEyfERI8djySFMHFRAb60ybg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And for government to support students by paying bursary.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Tying the fortunes of the universities to the government’s economic management incompetence is a double jeopardy for the nation.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As a strategy for national development some state institutions should be empowered to pursue autonomous systems to advance national objectives. And not run the entire nation under one political administration.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Autonomous Universities will have the power to pursue projects that will make them globally competitive and develop ways of generating higher returns on investment to fund their ambitious projects for the good of the nation.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As it is now, Universities are tied down to the limited resources that the political administrations can provide. The revenue generation systems are already bankrupt, government use of public funds is bedeviled with corruption and mismanagement. At this pace, public universities are never going to develop properly.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">By providing bursaries, the performance or failure of government will only affect the number of students on bursary, while the University can continue to operate at a higher level by recruiting those ready to pay the right fees to maintain a globally competitive system.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">We cannot continue to operate the way we have been doing since 1948 where we are perpetually starved of the needed resources in addition to faculty being poorly paid. We can no longer argue that people are poor so the current model should be maintained even if it continues to waste the potential of many people. Why should some people's ability and desire to pay appropriate fees at the university be the only reason for operating a system that soffocate the life of many people.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Its not elitist but pragmatic drive for the much needed progress.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#Universities</a><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><a data-attribute-index="4" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=innovation&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6891841081856589824" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#innovation</a>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-67375019523368104372022-01-25T12:45:00.000-08:002022-01-25T12:45:32.489-08:00 ON THE MATTER OF CHANGES TO EDUCATION CALENDAR IN GHANA:<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">ON THE MATTER OF CHANGES TO EDUCATION CALENDAR IN GHANA:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYN6JXo9qU8wwz1s7gcdF_m14_9Ar2XxxpUbdN4FbrgsovFks8bb-7e0P0W589tAGcK5XwqkVk_liN2RWmIpG9a8qc4M0iQbU5iFNRkTwkM7QNncIni6RHNuLwSMLLRukMQpB_jIciptZn6tLtB91NIXAeaXn2_34egiNYclXYRRa6kzaruf3F0wVLXw=s996" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="559" data-original-width="996" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYN6JXo9qU8wwz1s7gcdF_m14_9Ar2XxxpUbdN4FbrgsovFks8bb-7e0P0W589tAGcK5XwqkVk_liN2RWmIpG9a8qc4M0iQbU5iFNRkTwkM7QNncIni6RHNuLwSMLLRukMQpB_jIciptZn6tLtB91NIXAeaXn2_34egiNYclXYRRa6kzaruf3F0wVLXw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The thing is creativity can appear chaotic. Allow some margin of guided chaos. The point is not to appear to push back on every move for change otherwise we appear as unserious and confused people. We have to guide against cosmetic changes yes! But resisting change of every form is not progressive.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">With engineering, building devices with fewer pieces and fewer moving parts is looked at as effective and efficient. A two semester system will definitely make planning easier and productive than a 3 three term system.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">With digitalized education coming on in the 21st century, we might even individualize learning and do away permanently terms, semesters and year structures. We will supply all materials and allow the kids to learn and develop as they are ready. Tutors are assigned to supervise kids in the same phase in a dynamic way.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">More change is coming.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><a data-attribute-index="0" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=educationalleadership&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6890519455441444864" style="background-color: white; 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font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><a data-attribute-index="1" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=education&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6890519455441444864" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; 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font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#digital</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><a data-attribute-index="4" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=creativity&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6890519455441444864" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#creativity</a>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-11355688979026818052022-01-03T19:09:00.003-08:002022-01-10T16:25:38.746-08:00 The time has come for us to rationalize the number of undergraduates that leave Ghana<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The</span><span data-offset-key="405fl-1-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> time has come for us to rationalize the number of undergraduates that leave Ghana</span></p><div data-block="true" data-editor="7obi6" data-offset-key="c75sh-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c75sh-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="c75sh-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6dOnP9na4BfRhLbeA0kKyPpu8s-ZtnpEo7xTkfPpELTSwQLrrwkikc0SNj2jrfULMPTNqkn6Z2G-VxsdiBJ_8y4XgJoAbKGfV3fPwPnTCCj0B4meDZ3GfjFEw7kbqOv7_GTyQYobOV9Ld/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="960" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6dOnP9na4BfRhLbeA0kKyPpu8s-ZtnpEo7xTkfPpELTSwQLrrwkikc0SNj2jrfULMPTNqkn6Z2G-VxsdiBJ_8y4XgJoAbKGfV3fPwPnTCCj0B4meDZ3GfjFEw7kbqOv7_GTyQYobOV9Ld/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="7obi6" data-offset-key="fdutv-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fdutv-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fdutv-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone is free to study where they like, but can the nation continue to subsidize tertiary education only for huge numbers to continue to leave the shores of Ghana. By so doing continue to stunt the growth of national universities? </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="7obi6" data-offset-key="5lajr-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5lajr-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5lajr-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="7obi6" data-offset-key="kftm-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="kftm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="kftm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">For some course it is strategically important to travel and study. Many others also just need the scholarship to survive. Those who do not return immediately after studies should be required to pay a bond equivalent to actual fees for tertiary education in Ghana. About 50,000 ghs annually, this can fund the national fund. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="7obi6" data-offset-key="47lgv-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="47lgv-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="47lgv-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="7obi6" data-offset-key="dnudm-0-0" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dnudm-0-0" style="background-color: white; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="dnudm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The time has come for us to rationalize the number of undergraduates that leave Ghana. We need to retain some of the best to grow the quality of postgraduate programmes, which is the means by which nations produce intellectual property that drive industrialization.</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dnudm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="dnudm-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dnudm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="dnudm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">No one can complain that people have returned from studies abroad and have remained jobless for years, anyone remaining unemployed after graduate studies abroad for years must have a big story going on, otherwise the odds are very low.</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">We all need to look at the big picture and lend their support. The call is to help the break even with the tertiary education funding. Those days of dire poverty is over so the prospects of people succeeding in graduate school in Ghana is higher now. The challenge now is how to accelerate development by returning some of the best and not force facullties of universities struggling to compete globally to do so with what is left after the best and the brightest have all left the country.</span></div></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">I recently learned that people pay 50,000 GHS a year at Ashesi University, so we can use that as the best estimate of the cost of first degree. Government passed the National research fund bill but it’s silent on it. They don’t know where to find money from their corruption and incompetence to start the operations. So if our brightest and best abroad will be kind enough to refund their education subsidy received, research funding can happen. This will improve the educational system and send more send more out there continue to pay forward into the research fund. At some point the system will get to the quality that will compel people to return and stop moving out in droves.<br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">People raise the point that tertiary education subsidy is funded through taxes that the students pay, but at the time of going to University one's taxes won't amount to much. The one year service to the nation is not up to the cost either. Working for about 10 years might be what will cover the cost. One has</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> do the analysis carefully and gain geninue insights. Some will pay taxes more others less with a period of time. It also depends on the job one does.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">It will take a raft of measures and bonding is one of them.yes it will take a raft of measures and bonding is one of them. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">If the best and the brightest out there can band together and work together on the way forward. It will be nice for the progress of this country.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">This piece is in support of the issue raised by Dr. Richard Mintah of University of Ghana. I have also been concerned with the increasing number reference but did not link it to the brain drain issue. Countries like China</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> have the incentives to attract them back but in Ghana the resources to provide incentives is very hard to find.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">It must be clarified that the time people spend in training abroad is not what this is about. If people continue to stay abroad after their training then the need to refund their tertiary education subsidy kicks in. They should think of a more direct contribution towards tertiary education in Ghana. More resources will level up the system and stop the brain drain. Thus </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">creating a positive feedback loop is a forward looking idea which can accelerate the process of development of Ghana. Beyond what the indirect social remittances can do.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"></div></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dnudm-0-0" style="background-color: white; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="dnudm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dnudm-0-0" style="background-color: white; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="dnudm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUu6MZ6YYc1_ku_UdfqDnmbHlQNjEi-MimPX5hoXyDEE5Q92UrDap5Q17YbcW3fvciUfOKRdU_LB0HhGfhyphenhyphenpPgyNTD3SbzrztAg4U0O-uG8mTZ8126YOsxOP0oh-v9zHD4udpMwBlibquY/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="696" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUu6MZ6YYc1_ku_UdfqDnmbHlQNjEi-MimPX5hoXyDEE5Q92UrDap5Q17YbcW3fvciUfOKRdU_LB0HhGfhyphenhyphenpPgyNTD3SbzrztAg4U0O-uG8mTZ8126YOsxOP0oh-v9zHD4udpMwBlibquY/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div></div>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-83005346200918810692021-08-22T19:31:00.005-07:002022-01-03T19:10:44.678-08:00 Ideas on preparing for the next epidemic in Ghana<p><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Ideas on preparing for the next epidemic in Ghana:</span></span></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8J6fZSsmuss7GIGiO81UXT8AVmWC_3mFYw_e9Rp6JNkDLVjKTmvIpCUw0pbddr28P_AdhE-3Ii8zpnM-yGsYxgWsnDwTjUMCG7hczfNLwyRQDeMc-0J-rG0KLQh7YLhnsdhsowAVcJXvE/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="152" data-original-width="331" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8J6fZSsmuss7GIGiO81UXT8AVmWC_3mFYw_e9Rp6JNkDLVjKTmvIpCUw0pbddr28P_AdhE-3Ii8zpnM-yGsYxgWsnDwTjUMCG7hczfNLwyRQDeMc-0J-rG0KLQh7YLhnsdhsowAVcJXvE/" width="320" /></a></span></span></b></div><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></span></b><p></p><p><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><img border="0" class="placeholder" id="6a40a856c00a7" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/transparent.gif" style="background-color: #d8d8d8; background-image: url('https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/i/materialiconsextended/insert_photo/v6/grey600-24dp/1x/baseline_insert_photo_grey600_24dp.png'); background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; opacity: 0.6;" /></span></span></b></div><b style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV9ly45n7dVhG8uz2KX_3PVFwWM66KUZMLi_17LIF1JaW0-H3hitSNl_149XYXh3ibQcxOYR8ZhY5G5AVfim2yU_HH5xjQdbQuHRcWPB0tNYjGI81B1xRKns0OLTyPZdIgVWLcszQWIpk6/s331/images.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="152" data-original-width="331" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV9ly45n7dVhG8uz2KX_3PVFwWM66KUZMLi_17LIF1JaW0-H3hitSNl_149XYXh3ibQcxOYR8ZhY5G5AVfim2yU_HH5xjQdbQuHRcWPB0tNYjGI81B1xRKns0OLTyPZdIgVWLcszQWIpk6/w640-h294/images.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There is the need for some strategic assets to be put in place and secured as part of our emergency preparedness plan. In 2030 we cannot makes any excuses. The time has come for us to build formidable local capital.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Strategic asset 1(SA#1)</b>: Ten molecular diagnostics centres across the country complete with oligonucleotide synthesis, PCR, RT-PCR and sequencing reagents preparation capacity. Training of 1000 postgraduate level scientists to operate these high end centres in Ghana.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Strategic asset 2 </b></span><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;">(SA#2)</b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">: local production plants for infection control chemicals such as chlorine, ethanol, bleach, hydrogen peroxide, etc. The country must maintain strategic stockpile at all times. Older stocks should be sold and replaced. The should be have rapid distribution plan.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Strategic asset 3 </b></span><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;">(SA#3)</b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Personal protection equipment (PPE) production locally. With technological advances around the world efforts should be made to invent new PPEs that offer 100% protection and absolute comfort to frontline health workers. No more suicide missions should be imposed on them.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Strategic asset 4 (SA#4)</b>: Intensive care equipment fabrication and maintenance centers. As a country we shy away from the pursuit of technologically advanced projects. Let's grow up and get serious. ICU equipment are not luxury items anymore. Let's get to it sustainably. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Strategic asset 5 (SA#5):</b> Continous pathogen monitoring suite. Nanopore sequencing devices are becoming increasingly common. They be embedded in automated systems to trap pathogens in the air and sequenced routinely. The predictive power of such suite will surpass GPHIN by far.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Unlike GPHIN, the continuous pathogens monitoring suite (CPMS) will not be limited by language barriers and also wait people to fall sick and write about it on the internet. AI tools will power the analytics of the data to determine realtime circulation of transmissible diseases.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The outbreaks of the future will be more vicious than any experienced in the past. That is just the way nature works. Evolution drives changes that ensures the greater success of the biological agent. The choice is ours to get serious or play. </span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hashtag_click" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">#COVID19</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> points us to the future</span></span></span></p><p><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrt2qU7dKbLrfFZpTQ2lCN2B3K7Hgh1F84CIbMuAT8Q4GnYbz4YrBBBpVcW9cLzwiYz99jOtdvhvJtIWUNz80MLkbHGPib-zoHVjRu6fyo2_QC7jZ7PXom_CW4eaHjb8wS3ODt6rh9hHXt/s1420/banner-covid-19-1280x549-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="1420" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrt2qU7dKbLrfFZpTQ2lCN2B3K7Hgh1F84CIbMuAT8Q4GnYbz4YrBBBpVcW9cLzwiYz99jOtdvhvJtIWUNz80MLkbHGPib-zoHVjRu6fyo2_QC7jZ7PXom_CW4eaHjb8wS3ODt6rh9hHXt/w640-h320/banner-covid-19-1280x549-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-66168882617539245792020-09-21T16:33:00.003-07:002020-09-21T18:37:26.827-07:00Nkrumah outmaneuvered the UGCC folks and the traditional authorities to usurp Power: with destructive consequences<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /> <b><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Nkrumah
outmaneuvered the UGCC folks and the traditional authorities to usurp Power</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>: with destructive consequences</b></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLgae6gWlH1tQxF0cba8ju46e1YVketIb18hXON86HNanD-gB-regv9ELnShpU9yIVSPHRJzLIcw-ZeaXnphh0SpmEKlKFzuDhYjBaFkWXkNvRk3Fa_EM3n7T-NqRa8ApexhiKfvuKnxVO/s297/Nkrumah+024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="170" data-original-width="297" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLgae6gWlH1tQxF0cba8ju46e1YVketIb18hXON86HNanD-gB-regv9ELnShpU9yIVSPHRJzLIcw-ZeaXnphh0SpmEKlKFzuDhYjBaFkWXkNvRk3Fa_EM3n7T-NqRa8ApexhiKfvuKnxVO/w640-h366/Nkrumah+024.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /> </span><p></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">I have been seriously thinking about the way Nkrumah
outmaneuvered the UGCC folks and the traditional authorities. I think the newly
independent Ghana should have first amalgamated the traditional authorities into
a " supreme national council". And not sidelined them, which appears
to be the basis of all the chaos and corruption the nation suffers till today.
The structure of government is shaped like a colonial authority, hence there is
a persistent rebellion and sabotage against the state.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nkrumah should not have imprisoned so many people right after the
liberation struggle. </span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: white; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Remember the song "Mr. Jailer" by Asa?</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The rampant imprisonment caused all the unfortunate turmoil
the nation has suffered. So, it’s vital that we avoid tendencies of tyranny and
self-interest and embrace collective interest and liberty for all. We should be
a nation that negotiates our differences and builds consensus even in the face of
persistent disagreement. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
people who falsely support the record of Nkrumah describe his opponents a<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">s "usurper" and
"traitors". Don't these words rather describe the actions and choices
of Nkrumah himself in the independence struggle? After he usurped the power, he
forgot how much of a usurper and a traitor he had been and was imprisoning
everyone who reminded him of himself.</span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Also, the traditional authorities also resisted the
colonialists to a large extent, preventing them from taking over our lands unlike
in East and Southern Africa. Then they are sidelined.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> H<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ow about the traditional system that existed before the colonial period?
It's about us upholding our traditions.</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">They are still not going away anytime soon like it's been
done in Germany and France. So, we need to find a way to integrate. Otherwise
the distortion will continue to hurt.</span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Let's also challenge the idea that Nkrumah had to build a
state from scratch. This is wrong. Ghana was not formed like the Caribbean
states which were made up mainly of settlers and "slaves". There were
states based on ethnicity and origin, these smaller states with their armies and
land have been brought together by a colonial visitor. Nkrumah needed to
respect the origins of the people and craft a new "multi-national and
multi-ethnic" state that was at peace with itself and was not forced to
follow the global style.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">In the long-term
great leadership conquers time. Weak leadership
succumbs to time. Nkrumah proved to be the leader in the moment. Over time the
choices have come full cycle and the results are not good. Nature is the
greatest force of the realm. One person cannot feel so important to assume
every pivotal role in society.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Nkrumah
alone was:1. The Chancellor of the University of Ghana. 2. President of the
Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. 3. Able sacked the first Chief Justice of
the land Arko Korsah. 4. Able to destool a Chief in Akyem and Installed himself
a Chief there. 5. He had earlier created CPP to dribble the UGCC out of
position. Once he became president, he was busily using Ghana's resources to
fight for independence for the continent. Whether the people of Ghana wanted
their economic resources used in that manner was not important to him. The new
nation Ghana was mainly dependent on cocoa and once cocoa prices crashed; the
republic began to stagger. Not to mention the many citizens who were jailed for
dissent. He forgot that it took the whole nation to fight for freedom and it
was not to replace one oppressor for the other. Great leadership needs to
embrace dissent and negotiate. Being a leader does not mean one possesses all
that is great in that society. Many others can do the same and even do better.
Leadership is about building a society where the greatness of all citizens can
be achieved. Either you try that, or time will expose you.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p>
</p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">I understand those who venerate Nkrumah for being an exceptional personality of the century. But we</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif"> need to learn the whole truth. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ghana's history is biased in favour of Nkrumah will be revised with the whole truth. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif"><span style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">This recklessly delusional man wanted to be a global power with a nation of 4 million with life expectancy of 46 years. None of whom knew about how to split the atom, or build a steel boat or build a compass. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif"><br /></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif">We owe it to our ancestors and our children to pursue the whole truth. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">My goal is not to celebrate him. That does not mean I don't see anything worth celebrating. The whole nation has been duped into being his praise choir so what difference will one person make? What Ghana is today is the product of the life and effort of Ghanaians, Nkrumah included. He did not create the nation for us we created it for ourselves and he play a key role. Let's educate the young ones right into thinking that life is a big collective effort, not sit back and worship mere mortals are messiahs. </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial;">In the end the people still have their lives in their hand
and are struggling each day to make something of it. He didn’t need to struggle
to build a great nation for the people but to lead the people to build great
lives for themselves and make the nation great.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5hWYJ1o7iKGzlWbWr-gAlFdjhWKse5pLab1-hBZWDx1e-17Jmhggn_Ignjg5ionsQLLly1NGWxHI0kaBipNMzRox1H5sGjUn6yDa_HYNzloeGcwhGsidj38tmLMDv7sNACeED3N0wIHsw/s1200/Akosombo+dam.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="803" data-original-width="1200" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5hWYJ1o7iKGzlWbWr-gAlFdjhWKse5pLab1-hBZWDx1e-17Jmhggn_Ignjg5ionsQLLly1NGWxHI0kaBipNMzRox1H5sGjUn6yDa_HYNzloeGcwhGsidj38tmLMDv7sNACeED3N0wIHsw/w640-h428/Akosombo+dam.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span><p></p>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-50982672850440487022020-08-17T05:29:00.003-07:002020-08-21T13:57:42.810-07:00 Breakthrough to end the great locust plagues on the horizon let’s remember to design processes for sustainability<p> <b style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Breakthrough to end the great locust plagues on the horizon let’s remember to design processes for sustainability</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8D6aLheMoIkP0IkQ8J4exrwJojl2B7jb0mnYGBE9URAKVwmd9anHXmnwk7-Fj_C-YzeKACfSSv1LO2JuPvzy1JKd8XdCXjepgZOZvCgLWFpybBcF38pBdfnTFqhJX3E8SuxWSE2ZR1toP/s800/locusts.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8D6aLheMoIkP0IkQ8J4exrwJojl2B7jb0mnYGBE9URAKVwmd9anHXmnwk7-Fj_C-YzeKACfSSv1LO2JuPvzy1JKd8XdCXjepgZOZvCgLWFpybBcF38pBdfnTFqhJX3E8SuxWSE2ZR1toP/w640-h360/locusts.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">As a scientist in a “developing country”, I am sometimes baffled by the many scientific breakthrough and the associated technologies that the so called “developed countries” relied on to make them great. Many of the core principles are so problematic that the scientists involved should have ruffled their invention to make its implementation free from calamitous outcomes. There are many such examples that I will not spend too much space and time to elaborate on but only list three: atomic energy, opioids and weedicides. Any invention that has massive coverage area and affects a high number of people should be studied for a generation before it is applied at scale. Especially when is it a radically new invention. We need 35 years or more to ensure that the world will not be burdened with spending so much more to deal with the unforeseen dangerous effects.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We need new areas of research that look at accelerating the course of time and the natural evolution to learn the what some of these dangerous unforeseen effects can be. That is if we cannot wait for a generation to deploy our new world saving technologies. I recently read on the huge amounts that the USA government was willing to spend to deal with the opioid crisis in addition to the lives damaged and lives lost. We needed to calculate carefully what the value of opioids have compared to the price that has to be paid for its dangerous side effects.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We are at the cusp of another technological leap to deal with the great locust plagues of the world. Some scientists have just published the discovery of the swarming pheromone, called </span><b><i><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">4-Vinylanisole,</span></i></b><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> that is used by locusts to create their destructive super-organism to lay waste large tracts farmlands and forests. I am sure many companies are already carrying out field tests of possible solutions to solve the problem and cash in on the current plague in East Africa. While at it, let’s pulse and think hard about the environment and save the future ahead of time. It is possible. It is possible to design an innovation system around this situation that has not been used before. One that mimics how a newborn baby reimagines the world based on new realities and not the experiences of their ancestors alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Let’s get out of the economic-centric innovation system that is driven by profit and senseless competition. Many companies have rushed to profit only to be liquidated to pay off the damage done by their stupid ideas and toxic products. I know I promised to cite only three examples but the examples of asbestos and radium I recently watched on TV is still too powerful to ignore. The real value of innovation is to improve life in the long haul, we should therefore pick safety over specific and narrow range results. All results must be entered into the decision-making process with equal weight. True advancement should be like music, it should leave no pain. The bullish will retort, “no pain no gain”. Yes, there is pain in every gain but here the pain should be about enduring the problems long enough for the solution to be long lasting. Since nature invented water as the medium of life, there has not been any other to replace it. We now even look for water on far away planets as a sign of life. The pain should be about designing “powerful telescope versions” of innovation systems that are able to see far into the future as the telescopes are able to see far into the past to pick up red-shifted light of star when they first formed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I do not have answers to the sustainability questions, but I can pose a few questions to see what others think:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1. Is it possible to avoid burning the trapped locusts and release smoke back into the environment that will interact with the genome of the locust to evolve a new pheromone in record time?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">2. Is it possible to ensure that the system designed to kill the locust also has a mechanism to collect them to generate more profit?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">3. Is it possible to use trapping systems that do not leave the remains of killed locusts on land to generate warning signals for developing larvae to switch behavior to avoid mass entrapment?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">4. Is it possible to incorporate this new </span><b><i><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">4-Vinylanisole </span></i></b><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">substance into a mobile unit that is able to nicely draw in the locust swarm and gently freeze them to death and prepared the collection for other uses?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">5. Is it possible to create medium sized ships to draw the locusts out to sea and freeze them into animal feed, and leave useful insects on land untouched?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">6. Is it possible to ensure that the production of the <b><i>4-Vinylanisole </i></b>does not include processes that leave toxic residue for the environment?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">7. Is it possible to trap all volatile emissions from the processing of the trapped locusts such that they can never escape into the environment to train and evolve the sensory systems of the new locusts?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I hope we will not be inpatient to push the emergency button to unleash the next human made catastrophe on this fragile earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Scientific papers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><h1 style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 24pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><i><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -1.15pt;">Catching plague locusts with their own scent<o:p></o:p></span></i></h1><h1 style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 24pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02264-x" style="color: #954f72;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02264-x</span></i></a><i><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -1.15pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">4-Vinylanisole is an aggregation pheromone in locusts<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2610-4" style="color: #954f72;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2610-4</span></i></a><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><i><span face="" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Guo, X., Yu, Q., Chen, D. et al. 4-Vinylanisole is an aggregation pheromone in locusts. 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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 70%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; word-break: normal;"><span face="" style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Patrick Kobina Arthur
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These were the industries of the 19th century. To progress we need industries of the future, industries of plenty ideas and little materials. "gold, cocoa and timber" these were industries of plenty materials and little ideas.</span></span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Using viruses in the ocean to create batteries of the future, Biomimicry as industrial scale processing (like making ceramic materials using the biochemical processes similar to those used to make seashells, etc). Look for a book call "Biorefinery". Africa's future is that of Biotechnology - for medicines, functional foods, advanced materials (like fungus made quantum dots for advanced optics), bio-inspired electronics and robotics, new generation computer applications development, etc. "gold, cocoa and timber" I say again is 19th century. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">To succeed with the quest for industries of the future, there is the need to create new hub to house the technology culture that is needed for each specific idea to thrive. The example of "Silicon valley" is a powerful idea to provide the organizing principles.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #050505; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKP5E3wRJHyt2DUe66c-TryQi2BJBdJPdXnLnBewXJFRY8AK0QEDJinxPBR4kkfZ4kX5VtzKzb4fQ6RvMrEdgkT7TUAZ181LKN3X-UJOtqfG11uBY5qLOVgnIbQRFQbAiezEmiVK8VqvFH/s2048/IotF+2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKP5E3wRJHyt2DUe66c-TryQi2BJBdJPdXnLnBewXJFRY8AK0QEDJinxPBR4kkfZ4kX5VtzKzb4fQ6RvMrEdgkT7TUAZ181LKN3X-UJOtqfG11uBY5qLOVgnIbQRFQbAiezEmiVK8VqvFH/s640/IotF+2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span><div style="color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span><div style="color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>Nkrumah's False Start</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">At independence Ghana and Nkrumah had a false start. The industrial plants sold to the country were overpriced and problematic. But speed and ambition meant that the critical assessments could not be done. So once the cocoa cash run dry due to world price collapsed the industrialization efforts halted. </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;"><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Lessons : make the machines that make the track and the wheels on which your ambitions run on your own.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZkkG4rKPQ29CSu8RCCCvlrn3qZHxOJCPuP0ucCSIHwNA6LplFTWf_JcJppkRRFC5jXW7Un0AhNPxG4sXIvg8wOoy3FRLrcyk61RIG1wARWGKj7WvtfCCGh_ABtL3bxxTupvLxtNW3jTu/s600/IotF+1.jpg" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZkkG4rKPQ29CSu8RCCCvlrn3qZHxOJCPuP0ucCSIHwNA6LplFTWf_JcJppkRRFC5jXW7Un0AhNPxG4sXIvg8wOoy3FRLrcyk61RIG1wARWGKj7WvtfCCGh_ABtL3bxxTupvLxtNW3jTu/d/IotF+1.jpg" /></a></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>The 4th Republic has been running a 19th Century Economic model</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">We need a technology-led strategy for national development. The old economic model of export of unprocessed commodities, agric- and agro-processing based strategy will not take us far. How much cocoa, cashew and pineapples can we export to double our GDP in 10 years? With 5-10 high tech and biotech enterprises, we can more than double our GDP in a decade and that will fix all development deficits in a decade. This is what the Asian tigers did in semiconductor business and automation. Taiwan alone has GDP ten times bigger than that of Ghana, and it's land mass (36,193 km²) is smaller than the former Brong Ahafo region (39,557 km²) and population (24 million) of is less than that of Ghana (area 238,535 km² and 30 million people). 28 years of the 4th republic has run on a 19th century economic model, 2021 and beyond let's think differently and turn to some 21st century ideas. </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Technology companies to power and drive the </b></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>development agenda </b></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let's look at 10 technological companies that can take Ghana to the next level using the best of artificial intelligence and blockchain techniques to maintain competitive edge. The choice of industries is based on the model that a company </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">garner market value beyond the 100 billion mark in 20 years of operation. If all goes well, in 20 years all our 10 companies should garner a combined market value of 1 trillion dollars that is 22 times the size of the current economy. At the current growth rates using the economic model with annual growth rate of even 10% (which is not likely), the economy will grow to 309 billion dollars in 2040 from the current 45 billion in 2020. We can easily be a 1309 billion dollar economy if we decide to target high value technological advanced industries.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>01. Advanced Health Services Company:</b> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ghana can take advantage of the great number of medical schools in the country to establish a technologically advanced medical centre that can rival any around the world. First it can provide a cost effective alternative to Africans seeking medical attention outside the continent. </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>02. Pharmaceutical and Nanomedicine Company:</b></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Medicines are expensive and Ghana has a decent set of components for a successful world leading pharma company to play with the big boys. Setting up a pharma hub around one pharma giant in Ghana will prove useful in getting a company that can garner market value beyond the 100 billion mark in 20 years of operation.</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>03. Electric Vehicle and Smart Logistics Company:</b></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mobility is a huge industry that is patronized by the masses, unlike the current situation where the nation has no stake in vehicle production. The future economy will not be stable without a local company. Vehicles operating autonomously will be much more expensive which cannot be left to foreign companies to profit from leading to significant capital flight and job losses.</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>04. Solar Power and Smart Grid Company:</b></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">The question of renewable energy is going to be more critical in the future when hydrocarbon resources have been exhausted. Nations will struggle to develop the capacity to build their own energy system. We are not going to be able to easily but production systems off the shelve. We need to get started now and main to play in the African market.</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>05. Semiconductor - Superconductor Materials Company:</b></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Research around the work is very close to attaining superconductivity at high temperatures. It is highly that the materials that will be discovered to have superconductivity will end up being impossible to be produced at scale. We can also get involved pursue an approach that suits our high temperature and humidity environment and with a consideration for the limits of mineral deposits in the world. And get ahead of the curve and even explore materials such as graphene and modified versions of it. This how we are going to maintain a significant share of the 21st century technological value.</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;">06. Electronics Component and </b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Telecom</b></span><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Company:</b></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">All developed nations have achieved economic success on the back of electronic companies. These companies also create the engineering ecosystems that drive many other industries. By fusing an electronics company with a telecommunication will be strategic for the 21st century challenge of mastering communications and information technology from hardware and software. We can take a radical step and hold off 5G installation until we have built this type of company to be able to implement 5G in Ghana. Apart from securing the economic dividend, we also take control of the security of our network with local engineers who truly understand the systems, because they built from ground up.</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>07. Precision and Personalized Medicine Company:</b></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">This type of medicine is going to displace the current model of healthcare. The requirements for technology and sophistication will be enormous. Starting to create the institutions required now will make Ghana ready for the prime time. Once the world gets into this era of medicine, getting started will be extremely expensive and will lead to the importation of technological solution that will constrain economic growth even further. Unlike the current model of medicine which relies on supplies can be ship from long distances, personalized and precision medicine has to be local due genetics and the nature of cells and tissues that will be engineered to provide treatments of the future. Getting started now will allow Ghana to develop robust technologies for nations that will require them and save the nation from paying a huge cost.</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>08. Rocket and AeroSpace Technologies Company:</b></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Space technologies have a way to catalyze advancements in other fields through inspiration and training. We will need a space programme to ensure other technological enterprises succeed.</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>09. Manufacturing and Laser Equipment Company:</b></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the era of AI, robotics, nanotechnologies, manufacturing equipment will be the new personal appliances. The specializations will grow more complex as they need to be designed to tackle highly specialized. No nation can develop any viable technological company without operating in this space.</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>10. Biotechnology and Bioengineering Company:</b></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">The era of harnessing biological systems to produce functional materials and new medicines makes it an imperative to have a big player in the field. Biotechnology companies are always profitable and make several high end components and materials that are critical to other technological companies. In the future the place for biotech will be even more critical and building institution to operate at scale will be critical to national resilience. </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><p style="direction: ltr; font-family: times; font-size: medium; line-height: 11.2px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal; word-break: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">-----------------------------------</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-family: times; font-size: medium; line-height: 11.2px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal; word-break: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Patrick Kobina Arthur (PhD),</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-family: times; font-size: medium; line-height: 11.2px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal; word-break: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-family: times; font-size: medium; line-height: 11.2px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal; word-break: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">parthur14@gmail.com</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-family: times; font-size: medium; line-height: 11.2px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal; word-break: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-family: times; font-size: medium; line-height: 11.2px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal; word-break: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span face="" style="color: #188038; font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">google.com, pub-9398771462498500, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0</span></span></span></div></div></div></div>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-84079443954696175702020-07-23T23:55:00.005-07:002020-08-21T13:57:19.378-07:00Agenda for Happiness: My Manifesto Proposals for 2020 Elections <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYuAdKsrakZ6zxA7WavtVQSNoYdoqWjG8ncew0lU17EQw-owcmiGPO85K7EpR-qDZYOJlJ2skwQDz2zPetMWaUByhFC4KgjoUmOGTmW7l2EGcUChMclxosO1aB5hWQgvh3rRXqa3mSZdjX/s2048/IMG_20200718_013526.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYuAdKsrakZ6zxA7WavtVQSNoYdoqWjG8ncew0lU17EQw-owcmiGPO85K7EpR-qDZYOJlJ2skwQDz2zPetMWaUByhFC4KgjoUmOGTmW7l2EGcUChMclxosO1aB5hWQgvh3rRXqa3mSZdjX/w640-h480/IMG_20200718_013526.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The political season is here again and I am thinking of writing development proposals for political manifestos.</div><div><br /></div><div>Unlike 2016 where I wrote only on Science and technology. This time I am thinking of writing on 5 other topics.</div><div><br /></div><div>The urgency brought upon us by the Covid-19 pandemia changes the settings within which development is discussed. </div><div><br /></div><div>We need a new narrative about development that is no longer about economics, finance and politics. The new narrative should be about happiness. </div><div><br /></div><div>The agenda for 2021 and beyond should be: </div><div>Development of Happiness. </div><div>The Agenda for Happiness. </div><div>Happy Times </div><div><br /></div><div>Happiness covers everything from politics, economics, technology to justice and others. It's not that complicated. A narrative about happiness is one that is holistic and all encompassing.</div><div><br /></div><div> It is an agenda that resonates with people. In times of great crises the only agenda is to return to happiness. Timeless Happiness with Dignity.</div><div><br /></div><div>The 5 topics I plan to write on are:</div><div><br /></div><div>1. The sanitation fix</div><div>2. The flooding fix</div><div>3. Modern markets</div><div>4. Education for everyone </div><div>5. Industrial expansion </div><div><br /></div><div>We can all remember that during this tragic pandemia, we have witnessed racism in its ugly form. While we are all outraged and passionate about ending racism. I am more passionate about development and liberty. It is the absence of development that permits evil deeds like racism, imperialism, colonialism, wars, economic domination, religious and superstitious killings occur.</div><div><br /></div><div>#trueHappiness</div><div>#developmentandliberty </div><div>#lastinghappinessinDignity </div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-WxNLUXMdMngDyrQmcZ9_3Zhn4k7JSEqSXRoNsrY3QYBQ3D8W73A9QVnYbwbhi1DWeKJMFwRP3fKqiBT1kD_Aze79Otiw8vOQcMMVVSIVX-vtyLDPs2Wdkg9wUUNehWuZGYQFl3KmAqLe/s2048/IMG_20200723_171838.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-WxNLUXMdMngDyrQmcZ9_3Zhn4k7JSEqSXRoNsrY3QYBQ3D8W73A9QVnYbwbhi1DWeKJMFwRP3fKqiBT1kD_Aze79Otiw8vOQcMMVVSIVX-vtyLDPs2Wdkg9wUUNehWuZGYQFl3KmAqLe/w640-h360/IMG_20200723_171838.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>google.com, pub-9398771462498500, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0</div>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-1791358229714271352020-06-24T07:53:00.002-07:002020-08-21T13:58:28.997-07:00Straight to 21st Century Research Fund Scheme for Ghana: A review of the Ghana National Research Fund Bill, 2019<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Straight to 21<sup>st</sup> Century Research Fund Scheme for Ghana: A review of the Ghana National Research Fund Bill, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDyg6sdobwpxUvx-gwO1AXAQVjD1tbalByauNyEgvwrE9CdCr57LmSddjgXJtV3vKlq-xhtRTq0mliYjWjz8waQp6c0uNY7CD5acd3XQ5-FvsGp8VsOOxe4ZKEamkHoJFqQ4aAHbowlgck/s1557/Research+Fund2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="1557" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDyg6sdobwpxUvx-gwO1AXAQVjD1tbalByauNyEgvwrE9CdCr57LmSddjgXJtV3vKlq-xhtRTq0mliYjWjz8waQp6c0uNY7CD5acd3XQ5-FvsGp8VsOOxe4ZKEamkHoJFqQ4aAHbowlgck/w640-h360/Research+Fund2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This writing covers points of concerns and additional recommendations on the new Ghana National Research Fund Bill, 2019. In 2016 I made the effort to contribute my input to the development of the NPP Campaign Manifesto on the science and technology section. I have therefore campaigned for the drafting of the National Research Fund Bill with the hope that it will capture the critical ideas I shared in my memo to the then Vice-Presidential candidate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. The draft bill is finally here, and I am quite disappointed that it did not capture the essence of the NPP Manifesto promises made in the 2016 Elections. The least the drafters could have done was to capture the entire concept from the manifesto and then add more features to make it compatible with current global trends and the needs of 21<sup>st</sup> Century economy. As it is now, I feel it captures only 30% of the concept and leaves a large space for improvement. When it comes to the issue of research, science and technology, no country can afford to use outdated schemes to administer its programme. There is the need to commence operation with a modern 21<sup>st</sup> century world class concept to attract the best from the people of Ghana both home and abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">NPP Science, Technology, Innovation and Tertiary Education Policy – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">2016-2020: Memo by Dr. Patrick Kobina Arthur<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://pakar1-corner.blogspot.com/2020/06/npp-science-technology-innovation-and.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://pakar1-corner.blogspot.com/2020/06/npp-science-technology-innovation-and.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Ghana National Research Fund Bill, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.parliament.gh/epanel/docs/bills/Ghana%20National%20Research%20fund%20Bill,%202019(1).pdf#viewer.action=download" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.parliament.gh/epanel/docs/bills/Ghana%20National%20Research%20fund%20Bill,%202019(1).pdf#viewer.action=download</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Below are the point by point review of concerns:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Point 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1. (a) provide financial resources to support, promote and<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><i><u><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">publicise </span></u></i></b><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">research, technology generation and innovation<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">in the tertiary and research institutions specified in the First<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Schedule;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Not all the important research has to be <b><u>publicized.<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Example is funding to small business/research-based organizations working on proprietary technology with globally competitive outcomes, which has the potential to boost the national economy. All major National Research Funds across the world do this.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Point 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">3. (a) seed money of fifty million <b><u>Ghana Cedis</u></b> specifically<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">allocated for the start-up of the Fund;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">In November 2017, the Minister of Education announced that the seed fund of 50 million dollars had been approved by cabinet. How did the currency change to Ghana Cedis in this draft bill?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Point 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">5. <i>(1) The governing body of the Fund is a Board consisting<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> (a) a chairperson;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> (b) the Administrator of the Fund;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Persons appointed to this role should be people with proven track record in research and are internationally recognized for winning international grants to bring to the job international best practice and also sound scientific leadership.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Point 4<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">(2) The <b><u>members of the Board shall be appointed by the President</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> in accordance with article 70 of the Constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">It is important to have representation on the governing board by organizations such as Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, CSIR, UTAG, TUTAG, Vice Chancellors Ghana and equivalent from TUs. To ensure independent advice and direction free from political influence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Point 5<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">7.<i> (1) A member of the Board shall hold office for a <b><u>period of three<o:p></o:p></u></b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><i><u><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">years</span></u></i></b><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> and is eligible for re-appointment, but a member shall not be<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">appointed for more than two terms.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The tenure of three years is too short. NIH Director has been in office from 2009 to 2017 and was re-appointed to continue. NIH is the major research fund administration in the USA. There is a merit to directors having longer stay in office.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Point 6<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Ministerial directives<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">13. The <b><u>Minister may give policy directives</u></b> consistent with the object<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of this Act to the Board and the Board shall comply.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">To prevent short-term interruptions of the operational vision of the GNRF, the Board should rely on operational guidelines which are crafted every ten years and subject to parliamentary approval and not short-term ministerial directives. They should also have a mechanism to respond to events such as outbreaks, etc. to modify its operational guidelines without the influence of the sitting minister.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Point 7<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Appointment of Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">16. (1) The President shall, in accordance with article 195 of the<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Constitution, appoint an Administrator for the Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Subject to Point 3: That is a person with <b>proven track record in research and are internationally recognized for winning international grants to bring to the job international best practice and also sound scientific leadership.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Point 8<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Appointment of Deputy Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">18. (1) The President shall, in accordance with article 195 of the<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Constitution, appoint a Deputy Administrator for the Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Subject to Point 3 That is a person with <b>proven track record in research and are internationally recognized for winning international grants to bring to the job international best practice and also sound scientific leadership.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Point 9<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">22. For the purpose of achieving the object of the Fund, the Board<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">shall apply<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The percentage of fund allotted to different disciplines should be left open to the discretion and the results of the needs assessment exercise conducted by the board from time to time. Fixed percentages to the different discipline will lead to uncompetitive outcomes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Point 10<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Eligibility for funding<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">28. (1) A person qualifies to apply for funding for research if that<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">person<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">(a<b><i><u>) is a citizen of Ghana;<o:p></o:p></u></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><i><u><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></u></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">All over the world, research funding is offered to all researchers who are employed by national institutions. The issue of being in the employment of the national institution is key and not the citizenship of the researcher. There are many Ghanaian researchers holding Ghanaian passports who work in other countries and are eligible to apply for and win research funding in those countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Point 11<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The <b><u>Minister </u></b>may, by legislative instrument, make Regulations<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">for the effective implementation of this Act.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The GNRF should be given operational independence and not be subject to the strings of the minister to ensure that highest professional competence and leadership is obtained in the national interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Additional Recommendations:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1. The GNRF must create a <b>PhD fellowship programme</b> with immediate effect after commencing operations to select brilliant students from the undergraduate programme to ensure that high caliber of talent is retained in the country. The absence of such a programme has driven many of the brightest of Ghana’s youth abroad many of whom never return to the country. The fellows will be distributed among the departments and unit offering graduate programmes in collaborations with research institutes. Fellows should be provided with competitive travel award to gain international experience during the time of their fellowship.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">2. In keeping with talent development agenda, <b>Postdoctoral and Senior fellowship programmes</b> should be created for early and mid-career researchers in line with international trends. This will ensure the necessary capacity building to drive institutional advancement and economic development in Ghana.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">3. The GNRF must as a strategic development create a <b>high end, shared core technology facilities</b> covering several key areas of research and development. Core facilities are modern approaches of driving research by clustering high end equipment in a single location to be given the best of everything, which is not possible in a distributed system. This will ensure maximum usage and constant care, attention and innovation. Core facilities such as chemical analysis core, bioimaging core, genome sequencing core, engineering design core, Physical lab core, IT core, etc. These core facilities will be provided with dedicated funding and supervision by the GNRF board and the host institutions to support the needs of the research communities in Ghana.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">4. Special funding scheme for <b>multi-disciplinary research programmes</b> target big challenges like locust invasion, endemic diseases, waste management, flooding, etc. A scheme of this nature will draw all the expertise needed to use the power of graduate training and research to deal with complex problems and derive outcomes such as a sustainable breakthroughs and management systems which can be established as enterprises beyond the term of the research programmes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">5. Funding schemes for <b>private small business to conduct research and development activities</b>. Research funding should not be targeted at training, education and knowledge generation outcomes only. The outcomes should include industrial production and services to drive economic development and employment creation. The <b>Grand Challenges model</b> of funding can be employed for this scheme based on a four phased approach with increasing funding offer from phase 1 to 4. Phase 1 is typical – proof of concept; Phase 2 – transition to scale; Phase 3 – Low-medium scale operation; Phase 4 – large scale operation. The funding offering can be a mixture of grant, loan and equity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span face="" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">google.com, pub-9398771462498500, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0</span></p>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-79027032746282401732020-06-24T07:43:00.003-07:002020-08-21T13:59:03.534-07:00NPP Science, Technology, Innovation and Tertiary Education Policy – 2016-2020: Memo by Dr. Patrick Kobina Arthur<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font face="arial">NPP Science, Technology, Innovation and Tertiary Education Policy – </font></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font face="arial">2016-2020: Memo by Dr. Patrick Kobina Arthur</font><font face=""><o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjLeBKGcNzeLy6O2s3qxaUalE1ET1X5ZvX-fh7VAWIIDtF-FF-d3Bjmy2GulKWCAbJBXpHg3m_Vbfam-DgfJoVPbhgefzK2CmAaOoUX1eC7gszrxB2sr6JooX5Dv_F9FN_kT1rY0x_t8X6/s1557/Research+Fund2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="1557" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjLeBKGcNzeLy6O2s3qxaUalE1ET1X5ZvX-fh7VAWIIDtF-FF-d3Bjmy2GulKWCAbJBXpHg3m_Vbfam-DgfJoVPbhgefzK2CmAaOoUX1eC7gszrxB2sr6JooX5Dv_F9FN_kT1rY0x_t8X6/w640-h360/Research+Fund2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><o:p><br /></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial"><br /></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">The vision of the NPP for the economic transformation of Ghana is hinged on a durable and strategic STI policy that is dynamic, transformational and comprehensive. Every cedi invested in research and development will give back 50 cedi to the economy<sup>$$</sup>.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p><font face="arial"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;">The following key policy hallmarks will be instituted to create the STI environment that drives the economic development of Ghana in a competitive and sustainable way.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="arial"><b>1)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Science, technology, innovation council – STIC<sup>$</sup><o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">Create an apex STI advisory body to provide researched policy framework and policy recommendations to Government in collaboration with the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p><font face="arial"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">Establish the new national science fund to take 2 % of the country’s GDP for fund research and development activities in Ghana with a fund administration with oversight from the STIC.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p><font face="arial"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="arial"><b>2)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Centres of Excellence in Research and Development<o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">Establish a flagship system of Ghana centres of excellence (GCEs) across the country that networks all High Education Institutes (HEIs). Including all other research organizations such as the big hospitals, national reference laboratories, GNPC and Ghana Gas, utility corporations (VRA, ECG, GRIDCo, Ghana Water) CSIR institutes and CRIG.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p><font face="arial"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">The GCEs will cover themes such as:<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">01-Biomedical research<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">02-Biomedical engineering<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">03-Pharmaceutical technology and Bioequivalence Research<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">04-Crop improvements and seed technology<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">05-Environment and sanitation engineering<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">06-Energy engineering<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">07-Manufacturing equipment engineering<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">08-Agricultural technology,<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">09-Food process engineering,<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">10-Marine engineering,<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">11-Textile and clothing technology,<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">12-Transport engineering,<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">13-Building technology,<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">14-Climate and Ecosystem research,<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">15-Electronics and Electronic Assembly,<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">16-Advanced ICT engineering<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p><font face="arial"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">Mandate all GCEs to create multi-disciplinary graduate schools to drive youth training and to conduct their core activities while maintaining permanent staff strength that is lean and effective. <b>Large bioequivalence research centres (LBRC)</b> should be established in all institution in Ghana that provides medical training; these are UG, KNUST, UCC, UDS and UHAS. The grand goal is to reduce imports of expensive pharmaceutical by 50% in a decade of the commencement of the projects. Additionally, the LBRC must develop key and viable interventions for all unmet health needs in the country and export the some to the Africa region and the developing world.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p><font face="arial"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p><font face="arial"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="arial"><b>3)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Technology Parks (Industrial development centres)<o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">Development of technology transfer centres and business incubation hubs close to GCEs to carryout private sector led commercialization activities. Establish specific venture capital schemes to invest in the commercialization activities using the funds tier-2 capital of the pension system.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p><font face="arial"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="arial"><b>4)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Grand Challenge Scheme<o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">Establish the Grand Challenges Corporation as a subsidiary of the national science fund. The Grand Challenges is currently gaining currency across the world after the Gates Foundation initiated it in 2003. This scheme is to employ the grand challenges model to drive innovation by making various tiers of competitive grants available to all innovators from all sectors of society. The model encourages integrated innovation by linking technology to social needs and social capital and drive them towards enterprise creation and high impact interventions.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p><font face="arial"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="arial"><b>5)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Postdoctoral programme<o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">This programme is to cover all the thematic areas of the GCEs system nation-wide. A competitive and very generous scheme to motivate and build the capacity of young innovators for accelerated national development.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p><font face="arial"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">The programme will provide support over a period of 6 years to ensure the steady and productive capacity of building the country’s most talented innovators. To aim to attract and retain Ghanaians who have trained outside the country and are looking for opportunities to return.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p><font face="arial"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">The postdoctoral fellows are to be empowered to be the lifeblood of the GCEs and constitute main responsible personnel for the graduate training programmes. Fellows will be actively promoted into the technology parks with their research and development projects and provided with venture funding support.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p><font face="arial"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="arial"><b>6)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Graduate training programme<o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">This will be the main engine for the training of the new class of highly qualified scientists and engineers for the technological advancement of Ghana. This will be very well funded training programme within the GCEs and with many opportunities provided to ensure continuous global exchange.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p><font face="arial"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="arial"><b>7)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Design, entertainment, science, technology and innovation (DESTI) Programme<o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">The culture of innovation must be a constant part of the education system especially at the senior high and the undergraduate levels. This programme will provide funding and set agenda for private groups of youth and established youth organizations to organize fairs and competitions that allow student to showcase their original inventions. Strong mentoring from the GCEs will be organized for these DESTI groups to ensure that pathways to scale are provided.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p><font face="arial"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="arial"><b>8)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Technical and Vocational training<o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">Every innovation ecosystem needs a strong cadre of well-trained technicians to ensure the implementation of the projects. The GCEs system will create a training programme for all technicians. The training will include a significant part of immersive session in the various centres for hands-on experience.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p><font face="arial"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="arial"><b>9)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Restructuring of Tertiary Education</b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and </span>the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE)<o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">There is an urgent need to harmonize the activities in the tertiary education space. The elimination of parallel training systems such as the distinct structures for Polytechnics, Nursing schools, Agric school and Teacher training colleges should be carried to harmonize the training the standard of training across different fields. To ensure that all diploma and degree awarding institutions and programmes are controlled by the new NCTE to ensure that the same culture of training and student development benchmarks are applied across board. To this end Polytechnics must be upgraded to a fully structured Technical Universities. Nursing schools, Agric school and Teacher training colleges must be assigned to existing Universities as satellite campuses to benefit the same standard of lecturer recruitment and training. This is expected to create the culture of lifelong learning in Ghana by allowing a harmonious switching of fields of study. The concept of Open Universities must be developed under the existing distance and continuous education programmes that are running in some Universities. Institutes of distance and continuous education must be developed in all public universities, with the mandate to create open courses. It is expected students who want to switch fields at any time in their career will take several prescribed open courses that qualifies them to undertake their new programme of study. The new NCTE is therefore expected to go beyond the current advisory functions to the Ministry of Education to operate like the GES for the tertiary sector. The new NCTE must also absorb the functions of the National Accreditation Board to create the culture of continuous quality assurance and audit of academic programmes.</font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial"><br /></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial">google.com, pub-9398771462498500, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0</font></p>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-5033831699327682502020-06-10T00:46:00.001-07:002020-08-21T13:59:19.595-07:00Large scale fungal fermentation offers prospects for new cancer medicines of the future<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Large scale fungal fermentation offers prospects for new cancer medicines of the future<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">By<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Dr. Patrick Kobina Arthur – University of Ghana<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Prof. James Adjaye – Henrich Heine University of Dusseldorf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-WoBpehmU5VwOr2Ncwno0_Bcz7VOTXXWl0WLDpBJmg8eDJmvijOIVPjxVZUzggMM71rXi46KUP_f-v6VNkr0U16wTK6ed6olYTrtkcQwNj5-RrILgMXtTeVUAdKJWixZg3cP1wfSD0ouX/s720/Ethel+1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-WoBpehmU5VwOr2Ncwno0_Bcz7VOTXXWl0WLDpBJmg8eDJmvijOIVPjxVZUzggMM71rXi46KUP_f-v6VNkr0U16wTK6ed6olYTrtkcQwNj5-RrILgMXtTeVUAdKJWixZg3cP1wfSD0ouX/w640-h640/Ethel+1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The current health emergency readily brings to the fore the anxiety and desperation that having a disease condition without a viable treatment and cure can cause. The desperation can spillover the health sector to engulf the entire society in the event of an outbreak situation, where the contagion spread fast through the society. In the case of slow and silent health emergencies like cancers, the efforts to develop drugs for every specific type of cancer is limited to the priorities and the genetics of the advanced countries that have the need capacity. The leading cancers in Ghana are those affecting liver, breast, cervix/uterine and the prostate, with incidence and mortality rates ranging from 9-20% and 7-18% respectively according to the cancer country profile of 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The unmet needs for effective and safe treatment for cancer patients in Ghana and Africa has served as the main motivation to establish new sources of anticancer drugs that can be harnessed at a low cost. Compounds produced by fungi from different ecological zones have found applications in human medicine, but the resource is far from full exploitation. We have been conducting our research over the past 10 years at the University of Ghana, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology to determine the prospects of new cancer molecules from a collection of fungi. The efforts over the years has led the discovery of sub-fractions of the fungal extracts that possess strong effect in control fungal pathogens and some cancer cells.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">These sub-fractions occur in unfortunately small quantities hampering detailed analysis leading to clinical development. This requires further work i to fully explore the usefulness of the substance in these important sub-fractions. To strengthen our hand in pressing onto bigger and more costly efforts, we needed to obtain deeper insights into the true potential of the substances we have which happened in to be tiny quantities. For this important work, we collaborated with Prof. Dr. James Adjaye’s team at the Heinrich Heine University in Duesseldorf - Germany who have long standing experience, advanced expertise and the technology to perform such vital deep probing experiments<sup>1,2</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The results of the advanced analysis have recently been published in an international Peer reviewed scientific journal of high repute<sup>3</sup>. With Dr. Ethel Juliet Serwaa Blessie (PhD co-supervised by Dr Patrick Kobina Arthur and Prof. James Adjaye) as first author. We could show that the extracts have anti-cancer properties - more precisely, it slowed down the growth of liver cancer cells in a dish.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The insights shared with the research community clearly points to a high potential for obtaining potent new cancer medicines from the fungal sources we are currently studying. This is certainly an important milestone that calls for more resources to continue the push towards the development of treatment options. This will be helpful for people who suffer cancers in Ghana and Africa for which there are no cost effective, safe and effective treatments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We have obtained through the DAAD, (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst /German Academic Exchange Service - </span><a href="https://www.daad.de/en/" style="color: #954f72;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">https://www.daad.de/en/</span></a><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> ) a competitive PhD Fellowship funding to pursue the work to further identify components within the active sub-fractions which have anti-cancer properties. We aim to work with primary colon and liver cancer cells isolated from fresh name the cancer types tumor biopsies from Ghana to reflect the genetic background of the country and the continent. These studies will be carried out in both of our laboratories in Ghana and Germany. The team currently open to the young scientists with passion and skills in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Cell Biology and Computer Science to join to continue to deepen the gains and realize the ultimate goals.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">In a relative effort, the team is also working at developing the local capacity for large scale fermentation to provide sufficient quantities of the active ingredients coming out of the discovery work. This is important to advance the drug development process into the pre-clinical phase which is usually the limiting step in drug discovery efforts. Many active ingredients are too difficult to produce in sufficient quantities to the wide variety of studies needed to validate a new promising chemical entity as being ideal for the expensive clinical development.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">References:</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 8pt;">1. Otte J, Dizdar L, Behrens B, Goering W, Knoefel WT, Wruck W, Stoecklein NH, Adjaye J. FGF Signalling in the Self-Renewal of Colon Cancer Organoids (2019). Sci Rep. 9(1):17365. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-53907-7.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 8pt;">2. Regenbrecht CR1, Jung M, Lehrach H, Adjaye J. (2008). The molecular basis of genistein-induced mitotic arrest and exit of self-renewal in embryonal carcinoma and primary cancer cell lines. BMC Med Genomics. 1:49. doi: 10.1186/1755-8794-1-49.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 8pt;">3. Blessie EJ, Wruck W, Abbey BA, Ncube A, Graffmann N, Amarh V, Arthur PK, Adjaye J. (2020). Transcriptomic analysis of marine endophytic fungi extract identifies highly enriched anti-fungal fractions targeting cancer pathways in HepG2 cell lines. BMC Genomics. 21(1):265. doi: 10.1186/s12864-020-6684-z.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikKe94_ziw-VI_-purS0IeqH76YzV6uAKl9oJnAUoD4FL7ppxdhyphenhyphenRNft1g1vpw5GRKizka67SyZLeE5YU4bbqz0oJkJOdmrtfQ3dvLmBxBYyD9DZfibe2gcqJc9hr-TmSNJOngPexHVSud/s678/Ethel+2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="678" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikKe94_ziw-VI_-purS0IeqH76YzV6uAKl9oJnAUoD4FL7ppxdhyphenhyphenRNft1g1vpw5GRKizka67SyZLeE5YU4bbqz0oJkJOdmrtfQ3dvLmBxBYyD9DZfibe2gcqJc9hr-TmSNJOngPexHVSud/w640-h640/Ethel+2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></i></div><i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTmBjlqpwJsJyNdfHLF903QaWZ6Q4dnmMhzMgBUJbfcj5Xi2mDkB7kBRtmuG68pLFz0lFHO0Op41rbopiPlKRM2inV2BtBa6pGjVMZ_h4WV7ZPYtzOj4J0jYROEJo5x4NBsEOFmsJvZjt0/s720/Ethel+3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTmBjlqpwJsJyNdfHLF903QaWZ6Q4dnmMhzMgBUJbfcj5Xi2mDkB7kBRtmuG68pLFz0lFHO0Op41rbopiPlKRM2inV2BtBa6pGjVMZ_h4WV7ZPYtzOj4J0jYROEJo5x4NBsEOFmsJvZjt0/w640-h640/Ethel+3.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-_xeAU7am8sMTVTeFXJwFQA1PNeTR-sdLSHmIGntaPVfYLIhibSaxie7xZl9ux94LMpp0AVLSHR4ELLyz74wxq1sSTOMqyIdbrgM6sFJfLHlQViJB21xLmBLe0xtiAIHe8DzABIcGgi3C/s597/Ethel+4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="597" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-_xeAU7am8sMTVTeFXJwFQA1PNeTR-sdLSHmIGntaPVfYLIhibSaxie7xZl9ux94LMpp0AVLSHR4ELLyz74wxq1sSTOMqyIdbrgM6sFJfLHlQViJB21xLmBLe0xtiAIHe8DzABIcGgi3C/w640-h640/Ethel+4.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px;"><i>google.com, pub-9398771462498500, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px;"><i><br /></i></span></p>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-30482163392045737362020-05-20T18:02:00.009-07:002020-08-21T14:03:03.532-07:00Developing Pandemic Resilience in Ghana: Ghana CDC and the Health Research Centres<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixUtn6zU0OVwIzFnb_1S0uudEwK6lzumxJFxHZrwr1cFnM-NTDWqNXgtKhHop9j74L0Sqfu6cLOmkMmuNEth5yEqIUg8U974gsA5sx8udLuIN4g39o6vInbC74dBpPInvI0ajFBg0uER-S/s691/Credit-University-of-Ghana.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="691" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixUtn6zU0OVwIzFnb_1S0uudEwK6lzumxJFxHZrwr1cFnM-NTDWqNXgtKhHop9j74L0Sqfu6cLOmkMmuNEth5yEqIUg8U974gsA5sx8udLuIN4g39o6vInbC74dBpPInvI0ajFBg0uER-S/w640-h426/Credit-University-of-Ghana.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4">Ghana Covid-19 pandemic response has been largely anchored by the two foreign-funded medical research centres. These are Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR/Noguchi) and the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR). <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">KCCR's capacity is thanks to the German Government. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Noguchi is mainly by the Japanese Government. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now that the President of Ghana and the Government know better, they should do better. <b>They should not expect the neglected scientific and research community to suddenly find their voice and step up their long drawn out fight for funding and recognition.</b> This will not happen because we know too well the behavior of politicians during the time of disaster. They will appear to have learned only to drop the ball and return to default state. Our leaders suffer from low intellectual fortitude and limited far-sighted visionary capacity. So, here is the challenge, <b>allow the pandemic response to cause you to lose your resistance to doing the right thing for the sector over the long term</b>. That is the only viable way to delivering lasting capacity readiness to fight any future pandemic and all the many silent pandemic of poor health outcomes for many Ghanaians.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBN_Gqe1Tq1txL1CgS7n2eXD6n66XoZEhAVe3v1sLEXyG1ctWKqaJ1WZ-t_N1GauPvu2w-k1OdHC0R_j246uQxVix_xNaLqZ7c18rCkSCbPfOd1Rn1VK7FKoIPzVx4IHY-4hLNoycJW6H6/s706/kumasi-centre-for-collaborative-research-in-tropical-medicine-1-1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="706" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBN_Gqe1Tq1txL1CgS7n2eXD6n66XoZEhAVe3v1sLEXyG1ctWKqaJ1WZ-t_N1GauPvu2w-k1OdHC0R_j246uQxVix_xNaLqZ7c18rCkSCbPfOd1Rn1VK7FKoIPzVx4IHY-4hLNoycJW6H6/w640-h320/kumasi-centre-for-collaborative-research-in-tropical-medicine-1-1.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ghana's many CSIR institutes and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">the three Health Research Institutes are </span><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="inherit"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">hardly funded beyond salaries of workers. It is good news that Government of President Akufo Addo is determined to establish Ghana's Centre of Disease Control (Ghana CDC), with two branches in the Northern and Southern sectors of the country. What needs to scale up rapidly this the Health Research Institutes. At the moment there are only three, in Dodowa, Kintampo and Navrongo. To deal adequately with the growing more </span></font><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">challenging</span><font face="inherit"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> needs of the future the current three-centre <b>Health Research System should be expanded to 16 to cover all the 16 regions and placed directly under the Ghana Health Service and the new Ghana CDC</b>. To be effective the these centres must operate with a small number of permanent staff and a large active group of graduate students from the </span></font><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">existing</span><font face="inherit"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Universities who are engaged in field and community health research. </span></font></span></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4"><br /></font></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Noguchi Medical Research Institute | About Us" height="192" src="https://www.noguchimedres.org/images/2018/03/12/noguchi.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Add caption<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4">These new health centres must be mandated to carry out comprehensive research into all aspects of health conditions in the respective regions in a close alignment with the veterinary centres to achieve ONE-Health outcomes. Besides the graduate students driving the activities of the health research centres, all the <b>clinical laboratory scientists in all the health facilities in the respective regions must to associated with their Health Research Centres to integrate the work in the clinics with that in the communities</b>. </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4">The CSIR system was established to do for the Water, Food, Agriculture, Forestry, Transport, Roads, Housing and Industrial sectors, what the Health Research Centre and the new Ghana CDC is expected to do for the health sector. It is important that the pandemic resilience agenda be envisioned in an integrated manner with all the key sectors of the nation's economy. <b>At the core of the pandemic response are the ideals of local innovation and self-reliance</b>. CSIR system also needs an urgent expansion and modernization to include ICT, Energy, Clothing, marine technology, mining and geoscience technology, chemical and bio-technology, nanotechnology, space technology institutes, etc. The human resource management innovation needed to keep these many centres vibrant is to operate them as elite centres of training, technology and product development through partnership with the Universities and Technical Universities to conduct post-graduate skills training. People who seek permanent employment must be encouraged to use these centres to transfer skills and technology to the private sector to generate the needed economic growth for Ghana. <b>Let us therefore decide that a pandemic resilient Ghana is also a Ghana that prosperous and self-reliant. </b></font></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><font face="arial" size="4">This Piece has been published in the Daily Graphic of 4th June 2020.</font></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzfeIdy2sWTgwcOqX2qXJ-B0X0TTSyhYRzwIv_YQi28NMLr4aIvZps4e6fSJB0GKa_MGRbsb4jiztVR7y7HUN8ivBraoxfTs-fcAQ_l_SPooGiRbHlgdmB3-A54pxomqo2JN-MPtclcuOV/s1854/Screen+Shot+2020-06-08+at+10.48.17+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1476" data-original-width="1854" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzfeIdy2sWTgwcOqX2qXJ-B0X0TTSyhYRzwIv_YQi28NMLr4aIvZps4e6fSJB0GKa_MGRbsb4jiztVR7y7HUN8ivBraoxfTs-fcAQ_l_SPooGiRbHlgdmB3-A54pxomqo2JN-MPtclcuOV/w640-h510/Screen+Shot+2020-06-08+at+10.48.17+AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>google.com, pub-9398771462498500, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0</div><div><br /></div>PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-70581856472558191032020-05-11T18:47:00.002-07:002020-08-21T14:03:28.608-07:00RE:Mutant Strains Of Polio Vaccine Now Cause More Paralysis Than Wild Polio<div data-block="true" data-editor="4koua" data-offset-key="e975l-0-0" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e975l-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font size="4"><b><span data-offset-key="e975l-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Mutant Strains Of </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Polio</span><span data-offset-key="e975l-2-0" style="font-family: inherit;"> Vaccine Now Cause More Paralysis Than Wild Polio</span></b></font></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4koua" data-offset-key="7pgsm-0-0" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7pgsm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7pgsm-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><font size="4"><br data-text="true" /></font></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7pgsm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7pgsm-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/28/534403083/mutant-strains-of-polio-vaccine-now-cause-more-paralysis-than-wild-polio?fbclid=IwAR0Uflp5TLfjTDL7_RIQWpZyso14eRgRBY_4Lb6kGurGmlvxLaWYaUZ5rHI">https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/28/534403083/mutant-strains-of-polio-vaccine-now-cause-more-paralysis-than-wild-polio?fbclid=IwAR0Uflp5TLfjTDL7_RIQWpZyso14eRgRBY_4Lb6kGurGmlvxLaWYaUZ5rHI</a></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7pgsm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBlRheNi2O2mdxB3JLkU8bmRLDPEU70_3dXanhj-lLhAxt99IqVpNOM8PeR2xoDkxRCHEZJ_L7Zz_z6nUxeFeGpkF-GoG5AIV_8eNak8xw8KNDIzaqcDok17PatNO_YQKf-4iIXqSxT8xu/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1199" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBlRheNi2O2mdxB3JLkU8bmRLDPEU70_3dXanhj-lLhAxt99IqVpNOM8PeR2xoDkxRCHEZJ_L7Zz_z6nUxeFeGpkF-GoG5AIV_8eNak8xw8KNDIzaqcDok17PatNO_YQKf-4iIXqSxT8xu/w400-h300/Mutant+Polio.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7pgsm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><br /></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4koua" data-offset-key="80egb-0-0" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="80egb-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="80egb-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><font size="4">While this is a concern, the numbers involve tells a clear story. The Polio eradication campaign worldwide has been success to the extent that in 2017 as few as 5 infections and paralysis with wild Polio virus was reported while 21 cases of mutated Polio vaccine were reported to cause disease. This is against millions of children who could have been paralysed or died each but have been prevented by the vaccine. </font></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4koua" data-offset-key="4d7p5-0-0" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4d7p5-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="4d7p5-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><font size="4"><br data-text="true" /></font></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4koua" data-offset-key="c7gto-0-0" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c7gto-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="c7gto-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><font size="4">This is an adverse event which should not be used fuel any stupid conspiracies. Polio is very very bad disease. The vaccine was designed to be attenuated version of the virus which will mimic the infection but not cause disease. Once an adverse event is seen, corrective measures will be put in place. It’s a continuous process, the new design will make such escape event less likely. </font></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4koua" data-offset-key="8aspc-0-0" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8aspc-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8aspc-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><font size="4"><br data-text="true" /></font></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4koua" data-offset-key="25v53-0-0" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="25v53-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="25v53-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><font size="4">Such recombination events are common in nature. Our own DNA goes through the same. People should learn the science and stop weaponizing ignorance. Several billions of people have taken the polio vaccine without issues. When issues arise the same scientific method will be used to investigate and fixed. That fact that some people are ignorant does not mean that people around the world are looking to do them harm. </font></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4koua" data-offset-key="53gi7-0-0" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="53gi7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="53gi7-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><font size="4"><br data-text="true" /></font></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4koua" data-offset-key="duiks-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="duiks-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="duiks-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><font size="4">Let's read the history of Polio and the Polio vaccine properly. 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<span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">We need a serious dialogue and culture change. Production is a technical thing. UG for example has more students in business admin than in the Sciences, Agric and Engineering combined. Even in Agric majority of the students are in Agric economics. We cannot do any serious production with such propensity of the idle end of the economic system? Our educational system should 80% technical and 20% non-technical. Right now we have it twisted and wrong. The thing also is that the technical folks can easy re-tool for not technical roles when need be but the reverse in not quite that simple. This is why China took all the production jobs, they study science and engineering, they go abroad to study science and engineering. The move for local production can go only as far as the sophistication and efficiency of our technical competence. The extra 20% is overall, people who can both. I will even do 100% technical. Production engineer by week day, top musician on weekends. We need to tackle this development thing with brut force. The 500 years of deficit cannot be imported. Minds that appreciate and operates in the arts and the sciences are trainable. We just need a comprehensive system of learning for our kids and they will crack it. In this difficult era we are in, to be non-technical is to severely handicapped. They can do top engineers and creative artists at the same time. </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">What most people say is that, they want a course that will help them find a job readily. This is clearly a defeatist approach. People should and should be made to focus on courses that helps society tackle it's biggest problems. Someone asked of Shakespeare, but </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">his era is passed. Besides if he lived in second world war Britain, he would have enlisted in the army as a mechanic. And he would have done his writings during retirement. And his books would have still been famous years after his passing. Yes Shakespeare could have been a mechanic and also writer, and Mark Twain could have been a food processor and a philosopher. There is never an either/or situations in times of crisis.</span></span></div>
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PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-41567109613529299602020-04-07T19:29:00.003-07:002020-08-21T14:16:45.395-07:00Let's call the Doctors and Nurses Associations to order in the COVID-19 crisis response.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Let's call the Doctors and Nurses Associations to order in the COVID-19 crisis response.</b></span></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">1. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;">“Government has decided that all health workers will not pay taxes on their emoluments for the next three months, i.e. April, May, and June,” the President said.</span></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;">2. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;">He also disclosed that “all frontline health workers will receive an additional allowance of fifty percent (50%) of their basic salary per month, i.e April, May, and June. The March allowance will be paid alongside that of April.”</span></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;">3. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;">President of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo expressed gratitude to the President for the initiative but quickly added that all health workers are exposed- therefore, the stimulus package should not be restricted to frontline personnel only.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;"><b><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This request is unreasonable and inconsiderate and this is why:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">How do you call this a form of discrimination when the COVID19 risk bonus is given to only the direct frontline staff? They are being unreasonable knowing that 90% of the people in the health service will not encounter a case. It’s not like they are not paid for their regular work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The risk of infection comes with the job. But COVID19 is a new one hence the bonus for those who encounter it. It's like an army deployment. You cannot campaign to have your share of the victory bonus just because you have been on the standby??? This is not football teams where those who never kicked a ball also get the winning bonus. They get away with it because it's a small number. Let's be fair to our nation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You are duly paid monthly for you regular work and if you don’t encounter the new COVID19 then why do you feel entitled? Besides the 3 months tax waiver goes to all health workers, so why the be greedy in asking for the 50% of basic pay as allowance too? it’s also about affordability. Ours is a heavily indebted country with a weak economy which is made worse by the pandemic. People should think about that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The issue is with facilities that will never see a case throughout the period. Otherwise everyone on in those facilities during the period of the cases are being treated is on the front line. This should not be a big discussion but for the allure of free money. The GMA and GRNA should not have responded at this time of the crisis. Defer the discussion to the time when all is done and we know the true extent of the crisis. Think about the worse case scenario where even when all the money in the world is paid but cannot be used.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s also remember the same COVID19 event has reduced our </span><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">nation's</span><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> income and increased our liabilities. The least we can all do is to make it worse.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. </span></span></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">They are taking this like harvest season. Sad. We all need other professionals at one point and you don’t want this behavior meted out to you. Your house is on fire and the fire personnel are out there debating what additional cash they desire for their bravery. This sucks big time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-size: 15px;">2. N</span><span face="" style="font-size: 15px;">obody gets their due in this country. It’s the stage of our development. Remember that. Seeking to use a crisis to negotiate is inhuman. And there will be a price to pay. Watch it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-size: 15px;">3. A</span><span face="" style="font-size: 15px;">s for the politicians if you follow them you throw the life of your family away. And don't tell me I don't know what it takes to work in the health sector. Don't! O</span><span face="" style="font-size: 15px;">ne wrong does not make the second wrong right. Conscience!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-size: 15px;">4. C</span><span face="" style="font-size: 15px;">heck my last line about the worse case scenario. Anytime health workers are on strike I support big time. But this is not an ordinary time. We should all care about the situation not burning over us all.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-size: 15px;">5. </span><span face="" style="font-size: 15px;">CoS will be fought and won. Let’s wait for the peak of the crisis to pass. We will all join you in that fight. My sister is a nurse and my cousin too. So we all want the same thing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-size: 15px;">6. T</span><span face="" style="font-size: 15px;">hey need a quiet back channel strategy to negotiate. The current open banter will only hurt the weak. They will now feel that their safety cannot be guaranteed by people who are haggling over money.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-size: 15px;">7. L</span><span face="" style="font-size: 15px;">et's continue to remember that a contagion like this can easily fill your hands with more dead bodies than money. Remember that and be watchful.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I have read the article with the link above and it's good article. The author </span></span><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">critiques China's Coronavirus epidemic response. </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The author attempts to push for western-style democratic</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> systems in China even as it deals with it's latest challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">But the western system is also a charade. The trust and freedoms touted in the article are not absolute. They work only partially, 25% of situations in the best estimations. Why is it that when Obama was President police killing of black people increased dramatically?? </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">That was the model of fear and intimidation at work by the majority power wilding faction in the USA. That is not the democracy they talk about. The world needs to support China to be successful with its model of government while no other country wish to adopt. It's unique to the genetics of that country. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The way Chinese people are running illegal mining rackets in Ghana is evidence that open rules based democracy cannot work with the Chinese genetics. And they have learned over thousand years of the Chinese civilization. </span></span><br />
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<b style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face="" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">A
small debate with a Journalist on the link between private opinion and
professional ethics and standards: A monologue</span></b></div>
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<span face="" style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It is always hard to understand why journalists combine private
opinions and official work in the name medium. The confusion is that it’s
affects our perception of their objectivity and fairness in their official line
of work. One such notorious journalist is Manasseh Azure Awuni who sometimes goes
out on a tirade of hateful speech, denigrating and disparaging people. This
generates a lot of backlash in cases where his stories have merit. Below is my
encounter with Justice Baidoo of Multimedia.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He should learn from Kwaku Sakyi Addo. Big mind, big
personality. Not swallowed by any topic. This guy is just exhibiting obnoxious behavior
and small mindedness too often.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Why should the advice to learn gets too much and annoying?
You see that is the issue. Everyone wants to settle into an impeccable scope of
reference and still make a career of telling others what to do. And what is
charitable? Do you know what I can tell you in response if you attempt to be
uncharitable? Don't assume that arrogance is reserved for some! Try it! Just try
it!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You can't have freedom of speech if you can't respect the
same. Just learn!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Good! Now you remember when Manasseh described African CEOs
meeting in Geneva as all stupid. And many such infractions? Has he recognized
that this is not journalism? Have you called him to order? So, if I say he
should learn from folks like KSA and not "exhibit obnoxious behavior and
small mindedness". That is in defence of free expression. He should have
sought firsthand information from the CEOs before vilifying them. Maybe the
idea of Nana Addo addressing that forum is what set off the outrage but that is
where sensible broadmindedness come in. So, you and I cannot talk about what is
charitable or not in this context. I used to like his activist journalism and
the willingness to brave the odds in the pursuit of the truth like I cherished
the craft of KSA for years. But the same person cannot degenerate into some
sort of a spectacle that does not find considerate application of his force a
virtue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Interesting. You are telling me that If the priest who led
me to salvation from my horrible life came to visit me at home. And turned out
rap my gorgeous sister, I should not mix that apple with that orange? You see
this is the decadence our society is suffering and it's getting worse. We have
human right champions who are the worse of violent people in private, etc. This
cannot be a sound argument. Integrity is virtue for all professionals. I cannot
claim to be a fitness coach and yet everyone in my house if dying from
overweight. I hope you get my bolt! Consistency is very important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">How do I trust the quality of the facts when the raw
expression of your opinion appears to be far below the intellectual test of
average person? That you will not miss lead people much of the time because
that lack of quality the private sphere to the professional sphere? The
Governor of Puerto Rico is under fire for the content of his private emails.
Many journalist and public officials have lost their position for their private
opinions. The is not space left for you Justice. Is there? This is not a
campaign of self-rightfulness but there is a point for NMC and bodies like
these to check ethics and standards because of human nature. We can all make
mistakes out of character or even as part of character but must have the
opportunity for reflection, learning and reformation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The risk here is that a person who lacks integrity or as I
stated earlier suffers from "obnoxious behavior and small mindedness"
will easily pass off opinion as facts. Or project facts with bells and whistles
that completely distort the understanding the people consuming the news will
end up having. Sacred facts are communicated with consistency, clarity and
integrity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span face="" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">NPP's Deception over the creation of the
National Research Fund: While $5 million was wasted on the failed Black Stars
and some $2 Billion is to be squandered on the Accra Trade Fair redevelopment.
<o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
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<span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This statement by a notable public intellectual
set me wondering:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">“</span><b><span face="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">When our rapacious
politicians say there is no money it means there is money for them not for US</span></b><span face="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> “(Facebook: Lloyd Amoah)</span><span face="" style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1c1e21; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I remarked that as I am sitting here, I am
still monitoring the establishment of the National Research fund, but 3 years
have passed. The minister education said in November 2017 that cabinet had
approved the bill and it was on the way to the Parliament. There have been 3
missions to the moon since then by China, Israel and India. But the mission
from Jubilee house to Parliament house in Accra both within 2 km of each and
the mission is missing.</span><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1c1e21; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The government had managed to put some called
Basic STEM in the budget to get something that sound like STEM. But this all
deceitful antics. Many of their party loyalists have been point to this as good
progress. The problem is that STEM happens at the University not in the basic
schools. You have refused to set up 50 million dollars National Research fund
but have found 100 million dollars for BSTEM. What kind of delusion is this?</span><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">GFA and Black Stars wasting 5 million
dollars no a weak performance<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We have just witnessed one of the most
abysmal performances by our senior national team why still squandering some 5
million dollars in the process. Money, we do not have and as such very
important national programs have had to discarded. This problem is sports
funding can easily be solved because it’s a small of people in the team and
they already have the perfect product to sell on their own to be self-reliant. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I therefore strongly suggest that </span><span face="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1c1e21; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we should privatize GFA and the National teams.
Before any tournament they should play a series of friendlies and raise the
money for their appearance in addition to sponsorship deals from corporations.
Research in Ghana needs the funding, let’s stop wasting money and pretend there
is no money, that is wickedness.</span><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Re-development of Accra Trade Fair
centre at a cost of 2 billion dollars<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1c1e21; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">As if the black stars waste of public funds is
not bad it enough, we are now hearing that Government as just found some 2 billion
dollars to fund the redevelopment of the Accra trade fair centre. This facility
has been mismanaged by subsequent governments since 1960 to date. The best idea
is to give project to the private sector or provide private capital and set up
a state-backed private company to execute the project. Government is too porous
to be trusted with such a project. I can't see why this be done by the private
sector or at least PPP? With 40% corruption means some 800 million dollars will
go missing and what remains will be massively mismanaged adding to the public
debt. This is not a social project that government must do at all costs.</span><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1c1e21;">Weak and careless governments have
plagued this country. And their recklessness is enormous. Everywhere you turn
something untoward is happening. Now they want to engage in trade fair
redevelopment that will cost 2 billion dollars. We will end up losing 10
billion dollars and the facility will still not be usable.</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1c1e21;">We borrowed millions of dollars to build
hospitals, Government has not found the money to operate them but can find 2
billion dollars for this facility that the private sector can readily develop.
What is this attitude of systemic nation wrecking? Research in Ghana needs the
funding, let’s stop wasting money and pretend there is no money, that is wickedness.
Spend this budget 2 billion dollars on research and development in Ghana over
the course of fives and the return on investment will exceed 30 billion dollars
at the end of the 5 years. Test it!</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span face="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1c1e21; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">TO ALL POLITICAL OFFICE HOLDERS:</span></b><span face="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1c1e21; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> When YOU people go into government to come
richer than they can ever be. Then you are not politicians or public servants
you are criminals. We must enforce the property declaration law to stem the
tide of people like you using public office just to enrich yourselves. The test
for a patriotic politician should be the extent of their sacrifice of what they
could have earned privately but forfeiting it for public service and the public
good. </span><span face="" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">If your
earnings from your previous job plus the projected income over the period in
office for the same job cannot build you a 4-bedroom house. Then we do not
expect you to leave your political office with that and more.</span></span><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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PAKAR's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936218714215572094noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749279330194976542.post-1439177372973353592018-12-09T17:30:00.002-08:002020-08-21T14:17:42.477-07:00MTN Hitmaker Show has succeeded for Ghana Music, Now do same for Ghana Science and Technology<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">MTN Hitmaker Show has succeeded for Ghana Music, Now do same for </span><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ghana </span><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Science and Technology</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last week, first of December 2018, I chanced on the finals of the popular MTN hitmaker show for 2018. And I was pleasantly surprised to learn that many of the current top stars in Ghana music have been previous winners and finalists of the this show. This is a great credit to those who first came up with the concept of the show and it's implementation plan. Compared to the other previous </span><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">shows </span><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">musical talent hunt, this MTN hitmaker show has been relatively successful in producing top stars who are gradually featuring on the African and global stage.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is always important to take what works in one field and scale it across multiple fields. The Telcom business is one that has the most robust growth trajectory in Ghana and is less exposure to the stresses that other businesses experience. On the other hand, Telcos are epic technology companies that should be well positioned to appreciate and drive the growth of the science and technology sector in every country.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In a country like Ghana, where both the popular culture and the culture of government have always seem oblivious to the requirements for growth in science and technology in the development. It behooves a technology company like MTN to pursue the development of science and technology as the core of it corporate social responsibility activities. The core business of MTN and other telcos and the calibre of the people they employ seamlessly align with the culture of science and technology.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Going forward we in the science and technology community in Ghana will be glad to see a balance in the portfolio of activities sponsored by MTN and other telcos. It is important that this company steps into the leadership and resource gap. And drive the growth and expansion of the science and technology sector to give hope to neglected budding scientists of the diverse fields. Scientists whose only hope is the funding from agencies outside the country that are narrowly focussed and not designed to truly build the total capacity of all the scientists in Ghana. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am aware of the MTN apps challenge but there many areas of science and technology and tools beyond apps and fintech that needs sponsorship. These diverse fields can be empowered as part of the package for CSR projects that are meant to touch the people more directly. A team of scientists and engineers can be supported by MTN to develop and build livelihood systems as a way of supporting local R&D while provide development assistance to deprived communities. This in the end creates an ecosystem of win-win for many sectors and achieve a lasting development for Ghana.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Good science is also like good music, when it hits you, it leaves no pain. (To paraphrase Bob Marley). MTN hitmaker has made it work for Ghana Music with the discovery of artistes like Kuami Eugene, Kidi, Kurl Songs, Krymi, Freda Rhymes, etc. The same youthful energy and creative brilliance exist for science and technology that needs work to make hits after hits.</span></div>
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