By Emmanuel Gyezaho
Mr Dhesigen Naidoo, a public policy expert from the Department of Science 
and Technology, South Africa speaks to Emmanuel Gyezaho, in a candid interview in which he boldly states that the Commonwealth people “know our problems†and “have the solutions.â€
Mr Naidoo presented a paper on Technology Innovations and Diversification at a Workshop on Knowledge Innovation for Economic Transformation. He listed the following factors as the strategic bottlenecks to innovation in the Commonwealth.
- Slow growth in the knowledge base
- Declining interests in science and technology in young people
- Brain circulation skewed in favour of developed countries
- Even where there is a reasonable knowledge base, we have an Innovation Chasm
Listen to a low bandwidth version of the interview here or press play below:
When fast paced technology meets a backward society, it is more of a cost than a benefit.
Such societies are taken up by superior sales and marketing spins to a point that the evolution of the technological process is interrupted by mere duplication as opposed to an evolutionary process the developed world had to go through.
Naido make a valid point here.