The full title of this article is: Project and Funding Proposals for Development of Technology Transfer Centre. Report to Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Accra, Ghana. 1990/06/27 A report prepared for Technology Transfer Centre, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, UNDP/TTC Project No. GHA/88/008/B/01/99/ ("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 years.)

This report is based on work John did in Ghana in January 1990, and includes materials which he had already presented to CSIR in January (in a talk titled "Success Factors in Technology Transfer for Developing Nations") and is a follow on to his earlier consulting work in Ghana during 1989. On this second trip to Ghana, John's duties were to advise on the coordination and consolidation of information gained from Dr. Hahn, the Korean consultant who had been hired to present a long range economic plan, Dr. Xiao, the Chinese botanist and pharmaceutical expert who had been hired to survey Ghana's herbal resources, and Mrs. Gloria Nikol, a Ghanaian lady who was serving as liaison between the Technology Transfer Institute and a collection of business and commercial enterprises in Ghana. Moses Ayiku, as director of the Technology Transfer Centre, had been instrumental in getting all these people hired and working toward the long range planning ideas suggested by John in his 1989 visit to the country. Dr. Hahn and Dr. Xiao finished their work and presented very good information to Moses, right on time. Mrs. Nikol's job was to provide some statistics bearing out the report recommendations, but she dawdled around and didn't bring her stuff in on time so John had to leave Africa and come back home without finishing the final report. Gloria finally sent the stuff he needed, or at least she sent something, and then John wrote this report and formally submitted it to CSIR, as a completion of his consulting job in Ghana. John's 137 page report is now in the file folder, along with correspondence, reports from Dr. Hahn, and notes. In June of 1992 John gave away quite a lot of his Ghana consulting work, especially a big bunch of reports and stuff to Joshua Anyiwo, who wanted to present a proposal through the State of Virginia to the new Nigerian government coming into power in the mid-nineties. As it happened, the OLD Nigerian government voided the elections, and retained dictatorship control of the government, so Joshua's ambitions came to naught. However, Joshua has never returned the Ghana reports and other materials, although John had specifically asked him to take them only as a loan, not to keep. As of the year 2000, Nigerian elections are taking place again, and this time I think they threw out the dictator, so maybe Joshua will try again. Also John gave away some of his Ghana documents to other people, but I forget who just now.