Innovation
By Tolu Aiyegbusi
Scientists have called on governments of African countries to ensure improved inclusive and community-based innovations in their communities.
The call was made on Monday in Abuja during a capacity building initiative, organised by the African Union Scientific Technical Research Commission (AU-STRC), for African Union (AU) Member States.
The capacity building initiative titled “Inclusive and community-based innovation’’ aims to boost Africa’s competitive advantage in the sector.
The Executive Director AUSTRC, Dr Ahmed Hamdy in his opening remarks, said the capacity building initiative was developed to support one of the core policies of the commission centred on “building professional and technical competencies’’.
Hamdy said innovations had gone beyond being used for research and academic purposes alone to the level of being used to affect the lives of the common man who had no access to basic technology, adding…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
