Development in Ghana: Why it Fails and How it Will Succeed
Presentation Type
Oral and/or Visual Presentation
Presenter Major(s)
Engineering
Mentor Information
Paul Lane
Department
Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Location
Kirkhof Center 2259
Start Date
11-4-2012 4:30 PM
Keywords
Information, Innovation, and Technology, Changing Ideas/Changing Worlds, Creativity/ Innovation, Culture, Environment, Globalization, Health, Human Rights, Social Class, Sustainability, Technology, World Perspective
Abstract
Ghana is facing a new type of AIDS crisis: Acquired Import Dependency Syndrome. Developing countries rely heavily on importing goods that can be readily manufactured locally, destroying both the culture and the economy. Technology that is borrowed from the West is not appropriate for use in Ghana. Organizations that have set out to help develop countries are often contributing to this problem. Many organizations, governmental, non-governmental and faith-based attempt development projects. Many of these do little if any good for the impoverished local communities in the long term as they are not part of the fabric of the local culture and are not sustainable. Sustainable development starts at the local level through the basic needs of the developing world: food production, sustainable shelter, local medicines, and textiles. It also mitigates developmental risk. Successful development in Ghana is nothing like what the world has thought it should be.
Development in Ghana: Why it Fails and How it Will Succeed
Kirkhof Center 2259
Ghana is facing a new type of AIDS crisis: Acquired Import Dependency Syndrome. Developing countries rely heavily on importing goods that can be readily manufactured locally, destroying both the culture and the economy. Technology that is borrowed from the West is not appropriate for use in Ghana. Organizations that have set out to help develop countries are often contributing to this problem. Many organizations, governmental, non-governmental and faith-based attempt development projects. Many of these do little if any good for the impoverished local communities in the long term as they are not part of the fabric of the local culture and are not sustainable. Sustainable development starts at the local level through the basic needs of the developing world: food production, sustainable shelter, local medicines, and textiles. It also mitigates developmental risk. Successful development in Ghana is nothing like what the world has thought it should be.
