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Bairdâs CMC an international communication management consulting firm, operating in 11 countries with 28th partners employing over 400 people, represented in Washington, DC, New York, Johannesburg, Gaborone, Harare, Mumbai, London etc⦠has recently conducted a qualitative survey phase 1 in partnership with the US Chamber of Commerce calledâ The Conversation behind Closed Doorsâ. An excellent insight on how Corporate America really views Africa. Reading the survey opened my eyes tremendously as it was detailed and interesting to read.
If Africa has always been seen as the eternal assisted continent that needs Aid to come out of Poverty, why a solid emphasis on Education was not on all the programs at the first place and if the wish list of the corporate according to the survey was to educate our people so they can be employable, why more was not done? Why focus on aid?
I am totally convinced that Africa needs to educate its people more in order to sustain the development of the continent. With out education, Africa cannot be free or independent. The Africa human capital will have to contribute positively to the growth of the continent. The percentage of the African human capital outside the continent is greater than any thing I have never seen therefore urging wherever that percentage is to start transferring their skills.
By transferring the skills to Africa, we will be able to share knowledge, train the young generation of men and that are clearing struggling to find jobs.
To be continued…
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Hi Mariemme,
This relates to something which was suggested to President Clinton in the 1996 paper for more inclusive capitalism.
“Top-notch education is leaving the confines of physical campus and four walls. A student in remote Zaire, given an Internet connection, can become a Duke-educated Master of Business Administration, while remaining mostly in his or her home village to the village’s benefit. The prospect of such decentralized localization of education and economic activity allows a great deal of autonomy, freedom and self-determinism in the village’s own character and identity. It need not be a risk to cultural heritage and integrity to benefit economically; the means by which such benefit will occur, how local citizens can have food, shelter, health care, and a basic sustaining human standard of existence can be determined at the local village level and then communicated at the regional, national, and global level simultaneously at virtually no cost via the Internet and a web site. It is this basic level of human sustenance, coupled with self-sustaining enterprise to provide this basic level of support, that I refer to as sustainable development — which is just another way of saying “people-centered” economic development.”
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