Nkrumah's Vision for Solar Energy & Development: Memo for Ghana

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

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• MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

  You are right that "Strategic Forecasting" is an old concept. Individuals, businesses, organizations, and nonprofits have operated for hundreds of years by planning and forecasting in intuitive manner. It was not until the 60 ...
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  You are right that "Strategic Forecasting" is an old concept. Individuals, businesses, organizations, and nonprofits have operated for hundreds of years by planning and forecasting in intuitive manner. It was not until the 60's that strategic forecasting now known as futurology became popular.
  
  As a formal approach for planning and strategic forecasting it can improve situations if it successfully plan or forecast its environment, anticipate problems, and develop plans to respond adequately to problems.
  
  Operational strategy must describe the following strategy:
  1. What tasks must be done?
  2. Who is responsible for each task?
  3. When each task must be stared & completed?
  4. The resources(time & money) available to each task
  5. How the task relate to one another.
  
  The Osagyefo cared a lot about the future of Ghana, thus his interest in Kwabenya nuclear reactor & developing solar energy. He was far ahead of his time; it is a pity that he passed before Futurology became popular.
  
  Please see Futurology:Africa 2025 by Aylmer Von Fleischer
  
  And make an effort to read Part 2: The River that Swallow all other Rivers.

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• francis kwarteng 10 years ago

  Dear Marcus,
  
  How are you?
  
  I hope Prof. Lungu has put futurology in another perspective for you.
  
  Importantly, the five points you briefly describe broadly falls under project management (operations management, system ...
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  Dear Marcus,
  
  How are you?
  
  I hope Prof. Lungu has put futurology in another perspective for you.
  
  Importantly, the five points you briefly describe broadly falls under project management (operations management, systems analysis, organization science, production planning, game theory, logistics, critical path analysis, supply chain management, inventory control management, scheduling, linear/dynamic programming, etc).
  
  Automation is another area of interest that overlaps your five-point concerns. Then there is human psychology, politics, sociology, probability (uncertainty) and statistics, religion and theology (personal and group beliefs), law, sociology...all of which cannot avoid your five-point concerns.
  
  In sum, your five-point concerns reduce to what is technically called "project management." I hope this little information adds to the debate on futurology.
  
  Thanks.

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• Bob 10 years ago

  Bad and poisoning English from the (so-claimed) Ghanaweb intellectual, Francis Kwarteng. You keep on poisoning Readers on Ghanaweb with both your bogus English and copy/paste nonsense.
  
  
  Author: francis kwarteng
  
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  Bad and poisoning English from the (so-claimed) Ghanaweb intellectual, Francis Kwarteng. You keep on poisoning Readers on Ghanaweb with both your bogus English and copy/paste nonsense.
  
  
  Author: francis kwarteng
  
  Date: 2015-09-15 06:03:07
  
  Comment to: OSAGYEFO & FUTUROLOGY
  
  
  Dear Marcus,
  
  How are you?
  
  I hope Prof. Lungu has put futurology in another perspective for you.
  
  Importantly, the five points you briefly describe broadly falls under project management (operations management, systems analysis, organization science, production planning, game theory, logistics, critical path analysis, supply chain management, inventory control management, scheduling, linear/dynamic programming, etc).
  
  Automation is another area of interest that overlaps your five-point concerns. Then there is human psychology, politics, sociology, probability (uncertainty) and statistics, religion and theology (personal and group beliefs), law, sociology...all of which cannot avoid your five-point concerns.
  
  In sum, your five-point concerns reduce to what is technically called "project management." I hope this little information adds to the debate on futurology.
  
  Thanks.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  REPEAT: "...Lewis proposed that for Ghana...:
  "... Foreign investors should be encouraged to introduce modern technology...and access to external markets...Practically speaking, industrialization had to start by addressing ...
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  REPEAT: "...Lewis proposed that for Ghana...:
  "... Foreign investors should be encouraged to introduce modern technology...and access to external markets...Practically speaking, industrialization had to start by addressing the domestic market...recommended import substitution combined with agricultural development..." (Kari Polanyi Levitt, UN Chronicle)3.
  
  WE SAY: The funny thing is, these ideas as as applicable today when the debt-to-GDP is 71% as when it was 25%.
  
  However, we are not saying that as a sovereign nation even a 71% is necessarily bad, if there are serious "programs" to "manage" the issues you have, per Lewis!
  
  But, a development plan must start at bottom with a Ghana-centered vision, values and goals with measurable objectives. Practically all the plans we've seen from the NPP and the NDC are defective and useless because those national objectives are not measurable. They may have goals, tasks, and agencies assigned, but no performance measures.
  
  Up to now, we do not have any information about how Solar Energy will feature in the development plan. Under Dum-Sor, it still remains an Emergency!

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• MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

  More interested in attacking NPP & NDC & 40 yrs. Development Plan than my take on Futurology.

  More interested in attacking NPP & NDC & 40 yrs. Development Plan than my take on Futurology.

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• YAW 10 years ago

  MARCUS, Dr Wereko Brobbey,holds Ph.D in solar science from Imperial college. What has he done for the advancement of solar energy in Ghana? His idea of Futurology was to become CEO of Akosombo Hydro Plant as well as Chairman ...
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  MARCUS, Dr Wereko Brobbey,holds Ph.D in solar science from Imperial college. What has he done for the advancement of solar energy in Ghana? His idea of Futurology was to become CEO of Akosombo Hydro Plant as well as Chairman of Ghana@50,buying expensive cars for dignitaries. Who is more qualified than him in terms of solar science in Ghana?

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• MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

  What exactly do you mean by "I hope Prof. Lungu has put futurology in another perspective for you"? No he hasn't by any stretch of you & his imagination. What you are calling project management does not by itself constitute ...
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  What exactly do you mean by "I hope Prof. Lungu has put futurology in another perspective for you"? No he hasn't by any stretch of you & his imagination. What you are calling project management does not by itself constitute futurology - portions of project management - system analysis, game theory, stochastic models, Bayesian theory, decision processes,computer modeling, etc. might be included in futurology, which by the way is interdisciplinary in nature. Just show me evidence of where Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, in his prolific writings made use of futuristics. And this is not a criticism of the depth and breadth of his knowledge. He passed away before futurology became popular.
  
  And please Mr. Kwarteng stop this tag team defense you have formed with Prof. Lungu.
  I expected him to respond to what I wrote.
  I challenged the two of you to read Futurology:
  Africa 2025 by Aylmer Von Fleischer, research the work on futurology by Prof. Sohail Inayatullah, especially his Six Pillars, and less discuss that.
  
  Peace Fellow Ghanaians

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• francis kwarteng 10 years ago

  Dear Marcus,
  
  I have looked at Aylmer Von Fliescher's & Prof. Sohail Inayatullah's work.
  
  There is not one single idea they advance that is new to me. Again there is nothing new there.
  
  For instance, the Six Pillars c ...
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  Dear Marcus,
  
  I have looked at Aylmer Von Fliescher's & Prof. Sohail Inayatullah's work.
  
  There is not one single idea they advance that is new to me. Again there is nothing new there.
  
  For instance, the Six Pillars contain certain ideas or allusions to Buddhist concepts (which go back to thousands of years). In other words these ideas are older than Christ.
  
  I say there is nothing new because I (following my father) have been a Buddhist before, particularly of the Nichiren strand, and so such ideas do not come across to me as new. I have not ceased reading materials on comparative religion since I came of age.
  
  In sum, whatever Fleischer says in Africa 2025 is nothing new. NOTHING NEW. This was why I asked you not to waste your time on ideas that are already in the public domain.
  
  That said, the best way to convince me of your arguments is to demonstrate to me which aspects of futurology you think is totally new to me. You develop this argument in the form of an article (published on Ghanaweb, say).
  
  Thanks.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  NDC,
  
  Tell us, where is Ghana's Solar Energy Dividend?

  NDC,
  
  Tell us, where is Ghana's Solar Energy Dividend?

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• YAW 10 years ago

  If Dr Sas, ever questions your pen name again,simply refer him to this. He is on record for saying that Danquah followers do not use monikers.
  
  
  Mabel Dove Danquah (1905[1]–1984) was a Gold Coast-born journalist, politic ...
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  If Dr Sas, ever questions your pen name again,simply refer him to this. He is on record for saying that Danquah followers do not use monikers.
  
  
  Mabel Dove Danquah (1905[1]–1984) was a Gold Coast-born journalist, political activist and creative writer, one of the earliest women in West Africa to work in these fields. As Francis Elsbend Kofigah notes in relation to Ghana's literary pioneers, "before the emergence of such strong exponents of literary feminism as Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo, there was Mabel Dove Danquah, the trail-blazing feminist." She used various pseudonyms in her writing for newspapers from the 1930s: "Marjorie Mensah" in The Times of West Africa; "Dama Dumas" in the African Morning Post; "Ebun Alakija" in the Nigerian Daily Times; and "Akosua Dzatsui" in the Accra Evening News.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  We are thinking the lawyer in SAS knows his beef with a moniker was misplaced, even trivial. In fact, we believe that he himself uses monikers to conflate his voice (i.e. Mahmoud, to give just one example).
  
  But, thanks for ...
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  We are thinking the lawyer in SAS knows his beef with a moniker was misplaced, even trivial. In fact, we believe that he himself uses monikers to conflate his voice (i.e. Mahmoud, to give just one example).
  
  But, thanks for the note on Mabel Dove Danquah (1905[1]–1984). It is important news to us, if only for its capacity to inform us about a Ghanaian woman who probably was as good as any man at organizing and politics, and could have been a powerful political leader, if only she had been a man, beyond being just "...the first female member of the Legislative Assembly of the Gold Coast..."
  
  Thanks for helping to make the invisible, a tad visible!
  
  Frankly, we would have expected to hear this from Dr. Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe. But, we think we know why it never happened: Even after "...disagreement with CPP leader Kwame Nkrumah over editorial methods,[6] she remained loyal to Nkrumah and the party (CPP).[10], from the entry in Wikipedia!
  
  Thanks greatly, Yaw!

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• MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

  YAW, that is a distraction; and you know that. Stick to the topic at hand, and let's not digress.

  YAW, that is a distraction; and you know that. Stick to the topic at hand, and let's not digress.

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• James Quartey 10 years ago

  You are no match to Francis Kwarteng

  You are no match to Francis Kwarteng

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