Why Africa should use Internet infrastructure to solve its problems vanguardnews
THE speed of information has never been this super-fast. Knowledge revolution has changed the outlook of human societies, altering cultural trends. It is easier today to vary ideas and thoughts, across continents and arrive at the most preponderant. Virtual conference applications and webinars seem to be breaking barriers to knowledge at the most affordable cost.
The ability to function at the pace of the industry, and coping with the technical reasoning of the 21st Century is as good as a different mystical discourse. Hence, the popularity of the derogative slogan: “Unemployable African graduates”. They were actually not trained to be employable but to possess a degree.
The Nigerian child suddenly finds himself in a pool of economic difficulty but school curricula are not designed to explain the reasons for this predicament. But like a calculated hallucination, our education is designed not to understand local needs and the skill set required to address the daily challenges.
Such a high population of young people should be a blessing, but similar to the concept of oil curse, from the African experience, we are quite experiencing a population curse. Not because of the resources themselves, but our inability to organise them for best use in Africa. The mental and physical energies of our young people are used to develop Canada, Australia and other nations that are transparent in their developmental programmes.
There are hundreds of environmental structures and resources locally that have potentials for tourism, health, agriculture, power generation, civil constructions and other economic benefits but we have largely been unable to exploit them to develop our local economies. This is largely owing to the fact that there are imported cheap alternatives to these around.
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