Education in Africa: An Administrator's Perspective

When it comes to information technology in Africa, this continent has an amazing ability to leapfrog. Forget old-school landlines and desktop computers. Many in sub-Saharan Africa have skipped directly to mobile devices. And while Africa, like other emerging markets, has been slow to embrace cloud computing, it is starting to take off here, with tech experts touting the cloud’s big and perhaps unseen potential. As per Len Weincier, founder of CloudAfrica, one of the biggest hurdles in widespread usage of cloud computing is a lack of knowledge about its benefits. But we must understand that Cloud computing is in fact most ideal for Africa, where there is little traditional internet infrastructure, unreliable electricity grids in many areas — making on-site storage impractical — and an ongoing boom in business and development. Taking back our memories to 2002, Ghana was having only 240,000 landlines and 300,000 cell phone users with a 20 million population. An author then wr...

Over the decade technology has transcended poverty, race and economics to become a driving force in the lives of people across the world. Billions of us now have access to the internet and mobile phones. Increasingly, technology is being seen as a powerful development tool, used in the global battle to hit child and youth-focused targets in global education, livelihoods and health and it has enabled millions of young people in developing countries to join the digital world. Several high-profile tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle have launched global initiatives to increase access to technology by children and young people in the world's poorest countries, pouring millions of computers and educational materials into ICT training programmes. I found an interesting article published by IEEE written by Gaurav Bhatia and Ajay Lala (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6395909&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.j...

Importance of Creativity by Mitchel Tetteh, Lecturer (Design and illustration), SFD Ghana. The fashion industry strives on creativity. From the very moment the need to cover the nakedness of mankind creativity rose. Creativity moves the world. Creativity enables easy work in every sector and every aspect of life.  In fact creativity is never limited to the arts. The doctor, administrator, teacher, the nurse, banker etc, have ways they express creativity in their respective professions.  Some creative behaviours Daydream/fantasize. According to Kaufman and psychologist Rebecca L. McMillan, co-authors of a paper titled “Ode to Positive Constructive Daydreaming,” mind-wandering can aid in the process of “creative incubation.”  The creative person is always looking for something to do. He is always looking for faults, imperfections etc. to correct, where with creative fashion designer and with designers in general, the clause ‘IF’ is in great use. If it’s here an...