Findings & Recommendations for the Continuing Development of Ghana

Report from Warfield’s first exploratory trip to Ghana in 1989. Recommended three things: 1) Ask the Koreans how they had accomplished the change from a communistic society to a successful capitalist system 2) Try to develop a pharmaceutical industry, working from the strong knowledge of herbal remedies already possessed by Ghanaians 3) Try to establish a contract research establishment in which scientific consultants from universities would be paid by Ghanaian industrial and agricultural enterprises for doing research and consulting to bring the commercial development of the country into the 20th century. Recommendations presented to Board of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Accra, on 18 January 1989. See also, “Project & Funding Proposals for Development of Technology Transfer Centre. Report to Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Accra, Ghana.”



Warfield made a presentation to Board of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Accra, on 18 January 1989. I have not yet found any hard copy of a talk outline, but this report in Box 24 Folder 17 was probably the basis for the presentation. It is a black Accopress binder containing a 53 page report titled. "Background and Recommendations for the Development of the Technology Transfer Centre" (" Strengthening the National Capacity for the Transfer, Utilisation and Development of Technology" is also on the title page of the report, but this was the PROJECT title, for a grant being administered by Moses Ayiku, this PROJECT lasted for several more years.) This report manuscript is a photocopy, done in Africa, of such poor print quality that it is almost impossible to read. The black Accopress note binder also holds business cards and names and addresses of Ghanaians met during this period. This report is significant only because it provides the date of Warfield's first activities in Ghana, which began with this consulting work in January 1989. Warfield had come to Ghana at invitation of Moses Ayiku, who obtained money from World Bank or AID sources to pay Warfield's expenses. Moses, working in the Technology Transfer Centre, was among those African government employees hoping to steer the country toward successful capitalist economy and out of the previous socialist oriented regime. In this first exploratory and getting acquainted trip, Warfield recommended three things to the CSIR - 1) Ask the Koreans about how they had accomplished the change from communistic society to their successful capitalistic system. The Koreans, Warfield pointed out, were just a few years ahead in doing what the Ghanaians were just beginning to do, and it would be worthwhile to get a Korean consultant to come to Accra and look at the situation in Ghana and help them devise a long range economic plan. 2) Try to develop a pharmaceutical industry, working from the strong knowledge of herbal remedies already possessed by Ghanaians 3) Try to establish a contract research establishment in which scientific consultants from universities would be paid not by the government funds but instead by Ghanaian industrial and agricultural enterprises for whom they did the research and consulting needed to bring the commercial development of the country into the 20th century.




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  • Category: Applications, Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM), Professional History, Research History
  • Size: 338 p
  • Description: Typescript Transparencies
  • Publication Year: 1990
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