From: David Kiania | Asentric Consulting Ltd <kianiadee@gmail.com>
To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] What is Innovation?
Aki,
You have missed the point, we are discussing the Platform rather than
the content which is what I wanted to emphasize. What I love about the
presentation is the fact that ideas and innovation are seldom "Eureka"
moments rather many people chipping into an idea until a final product
is arrived at which we call innovation. That was your question wasn't
it?
I also differ with you that innovation requires government/policy
intervention, policy and legislation trails innovation 100% of the
time. Let's think about our local examples, Growth of mobile
telephony, MPESA, to mention a few. In actual fact policy curtails
innovation, and should come as late in the process as possible.
I also tend to think that most innovations hardly reach the public
domain, since they focus on meeting people's needs and not publicity.
My thoughts, by the way welcome back.
Kiania D.
PS. I highly
recommend 100 greatest discoveries from Science,
medicine, physics to chemistry by Bill Nye. Every family ought to have
this in their collection.
http://science.discovery.com/convergence/100discoveries/hostbio/billnye.html
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:12 PM, aki <
aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Just had a more in-depth look into the TED thing.
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> Here is the TED slogan :
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> TED's mission of "Ideas Worth Spreading" now reaches far beyond the yearly
> conferences, encompassing a variety of projects and initiatives that seek to
> leverage the power of ideas to change the world.
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> Really, the power of ideas to change the world? Amazing stuff BUT where?
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> TED AFRICA 2007 : THE NEXT CHAPTER., ( NOW ITS 2011, updates please )
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> - Anyone have
updates of TED and contributors who have brought significant
> policy changes on innovation and ideas to Africa since 2007 where the impact
> of these contributions has been a moving factor of developmeny?. Please list
> them here and educate those of us who don't seem to get the picture.
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