Catalyzing Science & Engineering Capacity Building in Africa Through Open

Education; Pivotal Roles For Globally-Networked International-Organizations

Open Education Global Conference 2017

Samson Jarso PhD

Supports autonomous learning and addresses complexity, disrupt those forces which disrupt development

Can Open Innovation Catalyze Science & Engineering in Africa?

(African) administrators, who operate between multilateral institutions and individual investigators, are in critical need of expert attention applied toward strategic planning.

Diop , World Bank’s Africa Region Vice

President, is passionate about promoting STEM –

science, technology, engineering and

mathematics. He believes that advancing these fields

of study is crucial to sustaining Africa’s

development…. World Bank is betting big on STEM,

investing $150 million in an initiative called the Africa

Centers of Excellence.

Dr. Diop , World Bank’s Africa Region Vice President

Graphical Visualization of the Distribution of Exports (2014) United States Vs. Uganda

Current Innovation System open Innovation System

Public Sector

Private Sector

Academia

Private Sector

Public Sector

INGO’sNGO’s Multilateral Institutions INGO’sNGO’s Multilateral Institutions

We Catalyze Innovation by Changing the Innovation Framework

Open Innovation Education

Knowledge Portfolio

Policy

Open education is at the center of open innovation…….Scientists and engineers need a

dedicated Open Education Developer Community focused designing open

educational tools specific to science and engineering!

Don Tapscott Global Solution Networks

Global Solution Networks a Framework for Understanding New Models of Global Problem

Solving

Moving beyond NGO’s INGO’s Multilateral Institutions

Developing Biomedical Engineering Capacity in Africa: A Pivotal AfDB Role by Samson Jarso June 18, 2014

We catalyze innovation through the use of a Multi-Stakeholder Innovation Framework

Spiral Innovation: A Framework for Successful Biomedical Engineering Capacity Building

Developing Biomedical Engineering Capacity in Africa: A Pivotal AfDB Role by Samson Jarso June 18, 2014

Open Education Must Deliver To Each Step In The Innovation Cycle

Clayton Christensen author of The Innovators Prescription a Disruptive Solution for Healthcare

OPEN INNOVATION DONE IN THE CONTECT OF OPEN EDUCTION E IS DISSRUPTIVE

Hand held ultrasounds developed in the last 18 months

Philips (Lumify) Echopen

links between open education & open science and Engineering innovation in Africa

• Translates all the intermediate R & D deliverables into freely available objects for design and translation• Creates new classes or objects to be incorporated into

open education blend learning• Necessitates the development of open service business

models which may focus on the bundling of services

An open call to action…..• Recommendation #1: There should be an open Education Developer

Community focused on incorporating intermediate deliverables for/from research, translation, development and design into open learning platforms.

• Recommendation #2: The community must recognize that they are delivering educational products to a much larger cohort than students….ie. Hospital administrators, managers, tech transfer offices, government.

• Recommendation #3: Each stakeholder in open science and engineering must learn how to operate in the spiral innovation framework