Beijing — China's science academy is to back five centres of research excellence to extend collaboration with developing world scientists in the fields of climate, water, biotechnology, green technology and space technology for disaster mitigation.
The five existing centres are housed within institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and will get US$6.5 million over the next three years from the academy to do joint research projects.
The funding will also go towards organising workshops, training and PhD programmes through the existing wider network of CAS-TWAS (the World Academy of Sciences) Centres of Excellence and the TWAS-UNESCO Associateship Scheme at Centres of Excellence in the South.
This will allow TWAS centres to go beyond their usual three-month exchanges of researchers to also organise workshops, according to executive director of TWAS, Romain Murenzi. "It will give them more capacity to carry out activities with TWAS," he tells SciDev.Net.
The first workshops at the centres started this month and more are planned for September.
"The five centres of excellence should strengthen communication, use their complementary advantages and share resources," says Cao Jinghua, the vice-director general of CAS's Bureau of International Cooperation.
They were chosen out of 22 CAS-TWAS Centres of Excellence based on a peer review of their previous cooperation with TWAS and other developing countries, and their research capacity.
TWAS members and other scientists SciDev.Net contacted for comment welcomed the initiative.
"The five centres will play an important role in global scientific collaboration by increasing South-South training opportunities," Salim Abdool Karim, director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa and a TWAS member, tells SciDev.Net.
Yongqiang Liu, a research meteorologist at the US Forest Services' Center for Forest Disturbance Science, says China is one of the few developing countries with existing capacity in all the research areas.
For example, CAS's Institute of Atmospheric Physics, which hosts one of the selected centres - the International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences - long ago developed its own global climate model and helped to create the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections.
The centre will contribute to climate change research in developing countries, which may in turn assist climate change mitigation efforts there, Liu says.
"It is critical to prepare future leaders to lead climate change research for developing countries," Liu says.
The developing world has great potential to move towards sustainability if science and development are brought together in areas such as water conservation, environmental protection and in preparing for natural disasters, says Jianwu Tang, a scientist at the International Center for Ecology, Meteorology and Environment at Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China.
"I am hoping the CAS-TWAS Centres of Excellence will advance science, drive innovation and apply recently advanced knowledge in ecology, environmental science and sustainability science into the developing world," Tang says.
Additional reporting by Mićo Tatalović.
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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.
West Africa: Main One to Land Submarine Cable From Portugal to Nigeria
On the surface this venture seems like a great idea. Internet Technology for all of Africa. I have no problem with Technology. My problem is with the continuing complacent attitude and LET THEM DO IT FOR US attitude of so many Black Africans throughout the world. 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 ; 4) One person was given Five (5) Talents. This person was industrious and turned his 5 Talents into Ten (10) Talents. 5) One person was given Two (2) Talents. This person was industrious and turned his 2 Talents into Four (4) Talents. 6) 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 : c) We can use what God gave us and be fruitful and multiply ; like the persons with five (5) Talents & two (2) Talents. OR d) 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 .
We Black Africans aren’t inferior to anyone. After all, all mankind is one body, Adam. We have and can be very industrious . Right now because of our SPIRITUAL LAZINESS (possibly coerced also by fear of our oppressors) we Black Africans have been living in a state of backwardness ; in a world that is moving into a technological revolution. So right now it is in the best interest of Black Africa to accept what is going on technologically via the Internet Company MAIN ONE.
Yes it is a good choice for us Black Africans to update our technology so that our African House can be as capable as any other Houses in God’s world. I would advise us Africans to act on our standing of being equals with all the rest of the World community.
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 ! “. I’d like to address a key point in this article - [West Africa: Main One to Land Submarine Cable From Portugal to Nigeria ]. Here’s a quote from this article : “ The services are said to be targeted at existing communication operators and Internet service providers with the view of providing an INFRASTRUCTURE OPTION that will not tie down their capital with long term savings for high quality international bandwidth.”
The key phrase here is INFRASTRUCTURE OPTION . This implies that Africa would have an option to make this technology a part of its INFRASTRUCTURE . I have no expertise in this area, but I tend to have common sense. There are some questions that that I’d like to introduce to you readers : a) Where will the INFRASTRUCTURE be based ? b) Will Africa be in charge of installing the INFRASTRUCTURE ?
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.
Do any of you Black Africans remember what this country’s name was before its name was changed back to Zimbabwe ? It’s old name was Rhodesia . The name Rhodesia was given to Zimbabwe by one of D-Evil’s (Satan’s) top workers. The man Cecil Rhodes was even buried in Zimbabwe. If anyone or thing should retire, it’s the grave and body of Cecil Rhodes . His body should be returned to where he was born. President Robert Mugabe , with all his faults, has been trying to get Zimbabweans to act as equals in the World Community. Mugabe has been fighting for his people’s rights to own their own land & resources. President Mugabe is being politically-lynched by so many persons and deceptive lures. I suspect that his wife’s problems in Hong Kong may be an attempt to lure Muigabe. Or it could just be a divide-and-conquer scenario. We are still being robbed under the guise of aid. Stop giving away our resources. Develop them, process them, OWN 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. “ ( Babylon Has Fallen ! )
Modern European Slavery started in Ghana with the Portuguese around 1442 . We still have a form of Slavery going on in Africa. Could the Portuguese be trying to enslave us again via their Internet Sub-Sea Cable System ? Also let’s not forget The Berlin Conference of 1884& 1885 Berlin, Germany, 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.
AFRICA AND AFRICANS; PLEASE KEEP HOLDING TIGHT TO YOUR TRUE, HONEST AND COOPERATIVE FRIENDS IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY. DON'T LET THEM ESCAPE FROM AFRICA AND AFRICANS. AFRICA THAT IS SEEING TODAY AS VIBRANT, POSITIVE AND RISING IS ALL BASE ON SEVERAL ASPECTS; ONE OF WHICH IS BEING HAVING A TRUE, HONEST AND COOPERATIVE FRIENDSHIPS IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY.