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@vivek_kumar@GoogleDeepMind@vivek_kumar , please I will happy to support as intern in this particular research direction.Please can i reach to discuss any openings.
@asemota It is not just a lack of technology; it is a lack of transparency. The reliance on obscurity is what turns these systems into money-sinking holes. Technology is simply the tool needed to dismantle that opacity and prioritize the patient experience over administrative friction.
@koboateng I believe this would be a great topic for the next Vent space. What our senior man is suggesting could solve many of our problems regarding how we develop real, local ecosystems.
1. "Research gathering dust on the shelves" is a statement you must have heard so often if you live in Ghana, Nigeria, or Kenya that now you tune out when you hear it.
2. Often followed by a recitation of the evils of not being able to crack "industry - academia collaboration."
3. Residents of Eindhoven, a city in the Netherlands few have on their holiday radar, file twice more patents than the whole of Africa combined.
4. Dresden, another off-radar city in Germany, file more patents than Africa combined minus South Africa.
5. Roche, a Swiss pharma company, has a bigger R&D budget than the public research institutes of all West, Central & Eastern African countries combined.
6. On and on and on. List after list of why industry-academia linkages don't exist and the consequences of that non-existence.
7. The question, however, is: whose duty is it to forge this linkage? Government? University Administrators? Academic Researchers? Corporations? Industry associations? Student Unions? Investors (including VCs)? IP lawyers? National IP Offices?
8. The correct answer, of course, is all of the above. Which immediately makes it an ecosystem issue.
9. Now, here is the secret: ecosystems don't form because some genius policymaker starts talking about it in a manifesto. Or some agency of a government adds a line to its vision statement. Or a university updates its mission charter.
10. Ecosystems are built by groups of highly sophisticated people working together. Often for free. The people I described in an earlier post as devoted to social problems often at the expense of their own personal success. The Probonarii, to use a crude Latin term.
11. A fly-in USAID consultant won't do. A Minister who speaks like Napoleon won't cut it. Neither would VC Kwapong brought back from Heaven to resume running Legon.
12. In the spirit of celebrating the Probonarii, here is a concept I find utterly brilliant from TTK University in Estonia. Student final projects displayed in a pop-up gallery of the country's most prestigious and visited shopping hub: Viru Keskus.
13. Thousands of shoppers suddenly find themselves immersed in visionary ideas of transformation from young minds.
14. One student carries forward the post-communist struggle to preserve Estonia from soulless consumerism and industrial blandness by reimagining a decaying paper mill. Another wants to turn a forsaken harbour into a coastal paradise.
15. Miniature worlds envelope each installation.
16. But the beautiful thing about this is that this is not the story of one university's boldness.
17. Getting these exhibitions into high-end public spaces required principals of KTA, the venerable design house, and their allies to become Probonarii.
18. The Probonarii had to work their socks off grooming students, nurturing projects, liaising with civic activists pushing these regenerative projects in the real world, and, of course, aligning with the commercial real estate industry.
19. All for free, in time they could have billed for loads of cash. Yet, their names appear no where on the installations.
20. Howzat?
21. Industry-academia collaboration in Ghana or Nigeria won't fall from heaven.
22. A group of "dumb geniuses" would need to drag it down.
@BBSimons Imagine the 90,000 students on working a providing real solutions to the hard and difficult issues we face in Ghana and bring real solutions. My hope is that an entrepreneural solutions captures the gap and redefine solutions that is workable with our context.
@BBSimons we have to start finding solutions to our local needs through our tertiary institutions quickly or we left behind as other nations progress through the research been done by universities and R&D labs.
Singapore Made Housing Into Statecraft https://t.co/uFbS16GGIu via @YouTube
Something that should consider by political class as to citizenship is secured by the state
I wish there were more authentic and ethical ways to use AI to write research papers. Any suggestions of videos or blogs that relate to better means will be greatly appreciated.
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