Africa recognizes that in order to achieve economic and social progress, countries have to put more emphasis on how to use the sciences as a vehicle for development, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA), Dr. Ibrahim Mayaki, said in Midrand today during a meeting with Prof. Neil Turok, Chair of the Next Einstein Initiative (NEI) of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS).
The Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, announced new federal funding of $20 CDN million to speed the growth of science and technology capacity in Africa by developing the talent of its brightest young minds.
Neil Turok wrote an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail: Transforming Africa, one student at a time.