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SUMMARY:Developing Technology Policy in Africa
DESCRIPTION:This seminar proposes a revised perspective for Science\, Technology and Innovation (STI) policies in Africa\, one that focuses more on the direct facilitation of economic production at domestic levels. It suggests the creation of institutional frameworks designed to embed new knowledge directly into economic production itself. This argument supports the growth of the small-scale and informal sectors\, which requires a wider engagement by of local and national governments\, and other development partners. This seminar intends to generate a conversation towards a scenario in which the gross financial inequalities that have beset Africa for so long will begin to be modified to the ultimate benefit of all.\nAfter the seminar\, there will be a brief introduction to an upcoming opportunity to publish policy and practice oriented perspectives and case study articles on Africa through the international journal of technology development and sustainable development (IJTMSD).\n\nSpeaker \n\n\nProf. Norman Clark is an expert in innovation systems and development and Emeritus Professor at The Open University and the University of Strathclyde\, UK. His research interests include science and technology development in Africa and South Asia\, a field in which he has acted also as an adviser to relevant agencies including the World Bank\, UNCTAD\, UNDP\, DFID\, NEPAD and the CGIAR. He continues to serve on the Governing Council of the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)\, Nairobi\, Kenya.\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to register \n\n\n\n\nIf you are interested in attending the webinar\, please register via this link or get in touch with Yvonne Gitu at Y.Gitu@acts-net.org for more details. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email from AfricaLics Zoom account containing information about joining the webinar. Please ensure you add the invitation to your calendar.
URL:https://africalics.org/event/developing-technology-policy-in-africa/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom\, Kenya
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SUMMARY:The Making of a Nobel Laureate in the Interdisciplinary Field of Transformative Innovation System(TIS)
DESCRIPTION:The Nobel prizes that are awarded annually are in  peace\, economics\, literature \, physiology\, chemistry\, physics and medicine.  Mathematics \, environmental science\, astronomy and Transformative innovation systems(TIS) are not included in the annual nobel laureate award.\nThe  transformative innovation system must be included as a field of research and learning  by making sure the Nobel laureate can recognise it. I was invited by the Swedish Nobel committee team\, and I recommended that the Transformative  Innovation System(TIS) should be included in the Nobel laureate winner  list. I also strongly recommended that the peace nobel winners are not always  those that deserve it. There should be thorough research of their contribution before the Nobel Laureate  awards them the prize.  Another very important recommendation is that the  indigenous knowledge\, especially linked both to medicine and astronomy\, must also be included in the  Nobel laureate list. The binary logic mathematics that is now running the entire internet world was created in Ethiopia in Africa. The  prediction of planets  in Astronomy was published by the book Abu Shaker and this astronomical  knowledge from indigenous origin  in Africa   must be recognised and appreciated. The first university was created in Africa \, but this is not  known by all including Africans. The Nobel laureate must be open to award not just those with Phds but also those who have invented\, innovated and created novel and original knowledge. The research output from the Globelics\, Africalics and all other Lics must be evaluated\, monitored and investigated and nobel prize winners  in this interdisciplinary\, science\, technology\, innovation and sustainable development should also  be permitted by including in the list this interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary  transformative innovation system. We have created the African journal  of Science\, Technology\, Innovation and Development and it is earning royalty. The journal with Research Policy and Innovation and Development and others   can reinforce the recognition of the TIS in the nobel award winning list.\nThe lecture will highlight how the not currently included  disciplinary\, interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary fields  must no longer  be excluded. How and why they must be included will highlight the principal  presentation.\n\nSpeaker\n\n\nProf. Mammo Muchie \n\nProf. Mammo Muchie is currently a DST/NRF research chair of innovation studies at Tshwane University of Technology\, a fellow at the South African Academy of Sciences and the African Academy of Sciences\, and an adjunct professor at the Adama Science and Technology University\, Ethiopia. Muchie has been Senior Research Associate at the SLPMTD program and is currently the Senior Research Associate at the TMCD Centre at Oxford University collaborating with researchers on diffusion of innovation in low income countries and the potential new research area of Africa-China industrial high-technology sectors. In 2009\, Mammo Muchie founded the African Journal on Science\, Technology\, Innovation and Development of which he is also the Chief Editor. Also\, Prof. Mammo helped found the first African Globelics Doctoral Academy in 2009\, and AfricaLics. He is one of the founding scientific board members of the network that connects North Africa with the Middle East and Southern Europe. Professor Mammo has produced numerous publications\, some of which are internationally accredited and entries in institutional publications.\n\n\nHow to register \n\n\n\nIf you are interested in attending the webinar\, please register via this link or get in touch with Yvonne Gitu at Y.Gitu@acts-net.org for more details. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email from AfricaLics Zoom account containing information about joining the webinar. Please ensure you add the invitation to your calendar.
URL:https://africalics.org/event/the-making-of-a-nobel-laureate-in-the-interdciplinary-field-of-transformative-innovation-systemtis/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom\, Kenya
CATEGORIES:Virtual Events,Webinar Series
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