The Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED) has opened its Accra office in Accra. It is the first innovation centre in West Africa.
The Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, expressed appreciation for the initiative undertaken by the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the alumni and foreign donors, noting that Ghana would be made a hub of private partnership investment, when the SEED project which primarily aimed to change lives and transform businesses in the country and the sub regions of West Africa took roots.
The Minister urged investors to engage the National Board for Small Scale Industry in the country in their policy decision making.
Mr Iddrisu stressed the need for investors to respect the institutions of the country that they would be dealing with, noting that government was prepared to create an enabling environment for the private sector to grow, since the formal sector could no longer fully support the employment needs of the country.
The Chief Executive Officer of SEED, Dr Tralance Addy, explained that in the bid to execute the project of transforming lives on a massive scale through businesses, three steps were followed, namely innovation, entrepreneurship and scale. 'We look at it as a regional idea rather than country base, 'he said.
Dr Addy bemoaned the fact that there was a gap between the promise of what would happen and what was actually happening, noting that the Millennium Development Goal of poverty reduction had not been achieved, looking at the fact that the year 2015 would soon come to pass.
He indicated that currently 29 small scale companies from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Ivory Coast had been listed to be trained and that fair opportunity would be given to individuals from all sectors that were prepared to take their small scale businesses to a higher level.
The Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Mr Garth Saloner, added his voice to the fact that alumni of the school were ready to provide coaching and teaching skills to businesses, and outlined some new policies of the school as giving scholarships to individuals who wished to study at the institute.
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We Black Africans have been giving away our Talents and resources, like the one (1) LAZY person , in Jesus Christ’s parable of the Talents . In the parable Three (3) persons were given Talents by God ; 1) One person was given Five (5) Talents. This person was industrious and turned his 5 Talents into Ten (10) Talents. 2) One person was given Two (2) Talents. This person was industrious and turned his 2 Talents into Four (4) Talents. 3) One person was given One (1) Talent. This person was spiritually-lazy and BURIED HIS TALENT IN THE EARTH.
The above-noted PARABLE OF THE TALENTS have two types of roads of travel we can take with our Talents : a) We can use what God gave us and be fruitful and multiply ; like the persons with five (5) Talents & two (2) Talents. OR b) We can hide our talent in the Earth ; which represents man’s way of suppressing his spiritual conscious , trying to guide him to use his gift from God in love. • And just as God gave Judas Iscariot’s (betrayer of Jesus Christ ) position of Apostle to Matthias . So will God give the place of all who neglect their Talents to those who are industrious .
Jesus Christ concluded in his PARABLE OF THE TALENTS : God said this to the LAZY SERVANT. “ …….You should have put the Talent I gave you to the use. Then at my coming I should have received my own with interest. . Therefore take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten (10) Talents. For to every one that has shall be given, and he shall have abundance. But from him that lacks shall be taken away the only thing he has (his soul’s life ). And cast that LAZY SERVANT into The Lake Of Fire :where there shall be weeping and grinding of teeth . If we Black Africans believe that we are equal with anyone, then our actions will Be consistent with our beliefs. After all, “ FAITH WITHOUT CORRESPONDING ACTION IS DEAD ! “. Bottom Line / Conclusion : We Black Africans can , have, and are slowly making a difference in this world . Here are some major things that Black Africans have invented From A - Z : Air Conditioner - Bicycle Frame - Bottle Caps - Hair Brush - Baby Buggy - Auto Air Brake -Toilet (Commode) - Pressure Cooker - Folding Chair - Pressing Comb ( Pressing & Curling Iron ) – (Torpedo Discharger ) - ( Disposable Syringe ) - Doorknob -Door stop - ( Digital Toaster ) - Defroster - ( Clothes Dresser ) -( Dust Pan ) -( Clothes Drier ) [ Eye Protector (Goggles) ] - ( Egg Beater ) - ( Envelope Seal ) - (Fire Extinguisher ) -Elevator -( Fire Escape Ladder ) – (Automatric Fishing Reel ) – (Heating Furnace ) - (Pastry Fork ) ( Guided Missile ) -Guitar - (Gas Mask ) - (Starter Generator) - ( Home Security System ) - Horseshoe – (Horse Riding Saddle ) – (Horn Light Indicator ) - [ Thermo (Heated) Hair Curlers ] ( Bathroom Tissue Holder ) - (Heating Furnace ) –(Rain Hat) – Helicopter – (Hair Care Products) - ( Ironing Board ) – (Ice Cream) – (Kitchen Table) – ( Letter Box) – (Lawn Mower) –Lock -( Electric lamp ) – Lantern – (Lawn Sprinkler) – (X-Ray Machine) - Motor - (Urinalysis Machine ) Mop – (Multi-Stage Rocket) -Corn Planter - Cotton Planter - Pacemaker Controls - Peanut Butter - Paints - Air & Water Pillow – Player Piano -Postal Letter Box -Printing Press -Pencil Sharpener Fountain Pen -Street Sweeper - Stains (Varnish) – Soap – Shoe –Siren - Keyboard Stand -Super Soaker Watergun - Shoe Lasting Machine - Traffic Signal -Sugar Refiner -Stair-Climbing Wheelchair - Train bathrooms - Typewriter -Train Alarm - Medicine Tray - Track Athlete Trainer – Sanitary Belt (Tampons) - Sanitary Belt (Waterproof Tampons) Electric Railway -Passenger Register - Roller Coaster - Pocketed Underwear - Clothes Wringer - Wrench - Window Cleaner - Backwasher - X-Ray Machine
The Black Inventors Museum - Box 76128 - Los Angeles , Calif. (90076)USA – is where I got some posters displaying detailed information on Black Inventors. [ If anyone would like a copy of my files on Black African inventors contact me via Paradise Personals ] .
We are still being robbed under the guise of aid. Stop giving away our resources. Develop them, process them ourselves. “ Daniel 11: 14 And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the ROBBERS of your people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall. “
Modern Slavery started in Ghana with the Portuguese 1442 . We still have a form of Slavery going on in Africa. Could the Portuguese be trying to enslave us again ? Also let’s not forget (The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885) – where 14 European Nations, Turkey & America agreed on how they would rob Africa . The prophet Daniel foretold this robbing of Africa ; see Daniel 11:14 . WAKE UP MY BROTHERS & SISTERS . BE SELF-SUFFICIENT. You’re In My Prayers Africa. God Bless Us. God Bless Africa.