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General News on Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-01-22
President Nana Akufo-Addo
Chairperson Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said the national development agenda would be based on science, technology and innovation.
He said that sectoral policies, programs and strategies were implemented on the basis of "a national policy of science, technology and innovation".
The President therefore called on all actors to support his vision of development, stressing that "we can achieve this Ghana, the Ghana of our dream, if we combine our efforts to work together and use all the blessings that Almighty God has given to make a positive difference in the lives of the people of Ghana. "
Technology Conference
President Akufo-Addo spoke at the opening session of a conference bringing together Ghanaian scientists, technologists, engineers and innovators at Peduase, near Aburi, in the eastern region.
The one-day conference was organized by the Ghana Engineering Institution in collaboration with MESTI, with the support of the Mastercard Foundation, an international philanthropic organization.
The President reiterated that his vision of a Ghana Beyond Aid was to build a strong and strong economy, capable of generating a prosperous and dignified existence for the people, banning the specter of poverty and making Ghana autonomous and less dependent technologies and the influence of foreign capital. .
Technology, science and innovation
President Akufo-Addo said: "The time has come for us to bring Ghana to countries where it deserves to be a successful and dynamic member of the global community by bridging the technological gap and placing Ghana in a situation going beyond aid.
He said: "Young people in the country already demonstrate a great ability to master new digital technologies and my job is to encourage them and help them as much as the limited means available to a government can be mobilized."
The president said the government has put in place a seven-pillar science and technology framework to place science, technology and innovation at the center of the country's development agenda.
These, he explained, include the establishment of a Presidential Advisory Council on Science, Technology and Innovation composed of prominent Ghanaian scientists, funding for research and development, and development on science, technology and innovation, which, he said, should be brought to a significant level the current negligible status and high school free policy aimed at expanding the access of all young people in the country to secondary education.
The president said that a bill to support the framework was being drafted as a bill on science, technology and innovation to facilitate implementation. politics.
Machine tool centers
The government will set up an advanced machine tool computer center in Accra and Kumasi to manufacture tools, equipment and other instruments to support key sectors of the economy, such as 39, agriculture and manufacturing.
President Akufo-Addo, who announced this yesterday, said the center would be equipped with state-of-the-art computers for designing and shaping tools and machine parts, to ensure optimum accuracy and finish .
According to the president, this initiative aimed to accelerate industrialization, solve the problem of unemployment and generate wealth that would remain in the economy.
It was also based on the belief that a country that could not manufacture its own tools and machine parts was not ready to industrialize.
He added that the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI) was working with the Ministry of Education to continue to focus on the provision of strategic and environmental technologies. centers of excellence.
Imports
President Akufo-Addo said that 61 years after independence, the country continued to import equipment, machinery parts and even the human capital necessary for their use.
As a result, he said, "the manufacturing base needed to create the thousands of jobs needed for our youth and help raise the standard of living of our population is low.
He expressed the hope, however, that "when all the policies and actions described will be fully implemented, we will begin to see clearly the outlines of a Ghana Beyond Aid program".
"We have not developed enough our capabilities to find national solutions to our problems and we continue to live with the habit of seeking solutions from outside sources most of the time with products made from the exploitation of our natural resources, "said the president.
He noted that the country could no longer continue to develop policies on the basis of donor support, saying the system had not worked and would not work.
Responsible
The conference chairman, Mr. Kwame Pianim, called for support for the Government of Ghana's vision of "Beyond the Aid", as it encouraged the current generation to build and secure the economy. economic independence of the country.
The President of the Ghana Engineering Institution, Mr. Steve Amoaning-Yankson, stressed the need for the country to badyze the technological path of the country since its independence and to chart a new path to to follow.
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