While reading the posted article, entitled "Innovation in Africa" I
found a number of parallels between their suggestions and the processes
by which I as an artist have been taught to create work.
At
the beginning of last year I had a professor who told us that while we
are generating our initial concept we should pretend that we have
unlimited funds and time. Then once we have generated the best idea we
can try and do it with 5$ and one week. This process resonated with
what Paul Polak wrote, "Think creatively: start big, use constraints as a filter and find the simplest solutions."
On another note I think Amy Smith's final point of Provide skills, not just finished technologies.
i.e. teach a man to fish, is where true long term sustainable solutions
will come from. The issue with Africa and other faltering countries is
not that they don't have any valuable resources. The problem is that
those valuable resources are not being properly tapped into.
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