Ghana needs independent funding body for Science

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• Pumpuni 11 years ago

  Prof., you are a genius, and Ghanaians appreciate you for that. Unfortunately, our politicians know next to nothing about the relationship between science and development. Moreover, they simply do not care. They are only inte ...
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  Prof., you are a genius, and Ghanaians appreciate you for that. Unfortunately, our politicians know next to nothing about the relationship between science and development. Moreover, they simply do not care. They are only interested in amassing wealth for themselves and their families. They don't care about Ghana as a nation.

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• Conventional Youth 11 years ago

  Advocating the establishment of an independent funding agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) to advice government on related research projects and budgetary requirements.

  Advocating the establishment of an independent funding agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) to advice government on related research projects and budgetary requirements.

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• Conventional Youth 11 years ago

  Government must provide the enabling atmosphere to assist the transition from science to business and take discoveries out of the laboratory into the market.
  
  He said the country must encourage science-driven entrepreneurs ...
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  Government must provide the enabling atmosphere to assist the transition from science to business and take discoveries out of the laboratory into the market.
  
  He said the country must encourage science-driven entrepreneurs who would use their talent to create wealth.

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• Conventional Youth 11 years ago

  Lack of advocacy for STEMICS at high political and policy levels, including unavailability of mechanisms for the coordination of STEMICs activities in the country to promote synergy is worrying challenge.
  
  Scientific knowle ...
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  Lack of advocacy for STEMICS at high political and policy levels, including unavailability of mechanisms for the coordination of STEMICs activities in the country to promote synergy is worrying challenge.
  
  Scientific knowledge systems, including information and communication technology, Prof. Allotey said, had become the pillars in the accelerated development of the industrialised countries.
  
  The application of modern science and technology would resolve the menace of Ebola and cholera in West Africa,

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• HAZOR 11 years ago

  president Mahama is a black president who refuse to think period.All his thinking were nkonfem,sanitary pads and stealing.Todays world news the westerning countries were laughing at Russia saying the economic and political sa ...
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  president Mahama is a black president who refuse to think period.All his thinking were nkonfem,sanitary pads and stealing.Todays world news the westerning countries were laughing at Russia saying the economic and political sanctions has spark the Russia currency to fall and Russia President Putin say he will not bow to any Obama preasure and the sanction has taugh him a lesson to stop depend on west for their product in the name of globalisation and produce every thing that they need.This is call the thinking president.No wise president will abandon Apostle Safo.Rawlings,Kuffour,Mills and Mahama has prove that they has toddlers brains and see no important in science,Technology and Innovation because they refuse to accept the fact that blank man can think because they don't want to think and only to be control by those who has seen the important of thinking.IMF has to tell our non thinking president to increase patrol tax to 17.5 to make every thing expensive to kill local businesses to let his home grown policy become emtry barrel and a mirage.Rawlings,Kuffour ,Mills and Mahama has fail Science,Technology and Innovation and our inventors are dying and the product s receive dust.

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• YOOMOBEGA 11 years ago

  You don't even make sense, yet you have the nerve to criticize the sitting President.

  You don't even make sense, yet you have the nerve to criticize the sitting President.

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• ZABZS BOY 11 years ago

  in fact we really need scientific based research institution in the country, however, are we going to have the right people to occupy the positions. in Ghana, everything is politics or tribalism

  in fact we really need scientific based research institution in the country, however, are we going to have the right people to occupy the positions. in Ghana, everything is politics or tribalism

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• MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

  (GAAS) Ghana's Academy of Arts & Science must not depend on the government.
  It must go out and solicit funding for its mission.
  From anywhere in the world - from the diaspora, WB, and other academies of Arts and Sciences.
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  (GAAS) Ghana's Academy of Arts & Science must not depend on the government.
  It must go out and solicit funding for its mission.
  From anywhere in the world - from the diaspora, WB, and other academies of Arts and Sciences.
  
  We must launch funding for STEMIC now in the country.

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• Sir Bronsted 11 years ago

  A sovereign nation which is in quest to develop plans and budget for Scientific Research. In Germany here, the government makes sure the research institutions(Universities and Institutes) have funds for their work. There are ...
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  A sovereign nation which is in quest to develop plans and budget for Scientific Research. In Germany here, the government makes sure the research institutions(Universities and Institutes) have funds for their work. There are too much frustration in the Lab. Very few people have the spine of STEEL to do real scientific research, even in the developed nations. Fortunately, they don't struggle so much to look for funding to do research and train the next generation to make their development sustainable.

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• MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

  Sir Bronsted you did not us how it is supposed to work. We must certainly promote scientific knowledge in our country by any means necessary.

  Sir Bronsted you did not us how it is supposed to work. We must certainly promote scientific knowledge in our country by any means necessary.

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• EZEKIEL 11 years ago

  This is an excellent idea. The BIGGEST OBSTACLE is.....from where do we get the money for such a body when the NATION CAN ONLY HOPE for DONORS'ASSISTANCE for a near-balanced National Budget???????????????

  This is an excellent idea. The BIGGEST OBSTACLE is.....from where do we get the money for such a body when the NATION CAN ONLY HOPE for DONORS'ASSISTANCE for a near-balanced National Budget???????????????

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• BOY KOFI 11 years ago

  Scientists everywhere in the world have not depended on govt to develop.Some of them even lost their lives according to their convictions.I think it is about time our Scientists come out with innovative ideas.To do that,they ...
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  Scientists everywhere in the world have not depended on govt to develop.Some of them even lost their lives according to their convictions.I think it is about time our Scientists come out with innovative ideas.To do that,they need to establish a Science Digest which can catalogue some of their research to the public and for the entrepreneurs to become interested.I mean they have to publish their findings,projects and problems through some newspapers or give out information to the public on regular basis.It is only when the entrepreneurs know exactly what our Scientists are doing before they can invest their capital and interest.Thank you.

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• Sir Bronsted 11 years ago

  Only Scientists understand what Prof. has said.

  Only Scientists understand what Prof. has said.

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• BOY KOFI 11 years ago

  Now listen,if a Scientist does not publish his findings,how would you want any entrepreneur to fund his research?It goes the other way round,if govt wants Scientific development it has to invest some capital and if Scientists ...
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  Now listen,if a Scientist does not publish his findings,how would you want any entrepreneur to fund his research?It goes the other way round,if govt wants Scientific development it has to invest some capital and if Scientists want funding they will have to prove commitment to their convictions.I don't have to be a Scientist to understand this common sense.Thank you.

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• MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

  As I was trying to say, Sir Bronsted, you don't tell us how scientists are supposed to be funded, other than through governments

  As I was trying to say, Sir Bronsted, you don't tell us how scientists are supposed to be funded, other than through governments

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• Abeeku Mensah 11 years ago

  There are enough commission/bodies in Ghana and at the current rate we might as well make each Ghanaian citizen a representative in parliament to ensure individual best interest are not abridged when laws of the nation are be ...
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  There are enough commission/bodies in Ghana and at the current rate we might as well make each Ghanaian citizen a representative in parliament to ensure individual best interest are not abridged when laws of the nation are being debated.
  
  Why would Prof Francis Allotey not quip why every position of authority in Ghana is held by someone from Ghana's educated class and yet work product from every institution of government including our universities cannot pass muster? We are a third world nation because the educated and political elite class that have run this nation since independent have not been cut out with wisdom, foresight, ideas and ideals; they've all been driven by tribal and party loyalties that drives bribery, corruption and nepotism which is inherited from not being principled and moral.

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