Personal Innovation Podcast

The Future of Education in Africa is here and this is how Dext Technology is using the passion of its founders to change the world through creative innovations to facilitate practical education in Africa.

The goal of any nation should be to provide its people the knowledge and skills they need to live better lives. Though the Universal Declaration of Human Rights holds that every child and adult is entitled to education, unfortunately, this is not the case in many developing countries in Africa.

One very key area of education that needs urgent attention is the practicality of the academic curiculum of many educational institutions in Africa. As STEM is gaining grounds, a Ghanian based social enterprise Technology start up is taking STEM a step high in Africa.

This episode of the Personal Innovation Podcast is a Start up Learning Zone edition on How Dext Technology, a Ghanaian social enterprise technology start up is Helping to Facilitate a Practical Approach to Education In Africa

My guest on this episode is Michael Asnate Asare, a co-founder  of Dext Technology.

Michael believes that the knowledge and proper understanding of science empowers us to create and or transform ourselves as well as our environment. Therefore he has made it his life’s goal to equip himself as well as the people around him with this knowledge by designing and developing, tools that allow us to understand our world better. “This way, we can change the world for good” He said.

The vision of is to transform science education all over the Africa by designing and deploying affordable and user- friendly tech-driven tools for the effective teaching and learning of STEM

In response to the rising demand for science and technology education by stakeholders, Dext Technology has resolved to design portable version of the contraptions and materials needed for experiments across science syllabi in Africa, fitting 45 individual materials and contraptions in a portable container that can fit in the bag of a student called the Science Set.

Every student can now have a science set and experience the beauty of science on their desks

A major source of failure for most start ups is the solo mentality, the mindset of owning everything because the idea was “mine”.

Alternatively, the best approach is to start thinking about How to Use The Power of Multiple Talents and Team work for Start Up Success.

It is therefore very refreshing to come across a Ghanaian technology startup with five co-founders who are working to ensure the success of their enterprise.

This episode of the Personal Innovation Podcast, is part of a series dubbed Start Up Learning Zone, a special edition of The Personal Innovation Podcast.

In this edition I am featuring Klaks Technologies, a Ghanaian Technology start up on How they Using Talents Five Co-Founders, with a great team spirit to achieve their corporate objectives.

In Africa, access to healthcare consumables such as feotoscopes and prosthetics are often problematic due to the cost involved, however 3D printing can help reduce the cost of such consumables and make them easily accessible especially to deprived communities.

Practical education is also lacking due to unavailability of machinery due to the cost involved; 3D printers can help in producing much needed teaching aids and be a tool to enhance creativity.

Most hardware start-ups and fully fledged companies spend a lot of money making prototypes of their products; 3D printers can help companies especially start-ups to make hardware prototypes at a far cheaper cost creating the much needed opportunities for hardware start-ups to evolve.

I had an interview with Nyankum Isaac, a co-founder and Production manager of KLAKS Technologies.

He holds Certificate 2 in Mechanical Engineering Craft Practice from Takoradi Technical Institute. He is passionate about innovation and creativity and loves making stuffs which fall under categories like Digital fabrication, metal work and fabrication, wood work, in short he is a MAKER.

He was a lab student for 3 years of GHANA FABRICATION LABORATORY and later became the lab assistant for 4years, where he left to join KLAKS, Isaac is a good team player, and handles all production for KLAKS technologies from machine building to testing and all company’s production.

Thinking of exploiting your passion and interest in a particular field whiles Schooling or working in a 9-5 situation? Are you currently in a bridge job and thinking about how to nurture your dream career and keep your passion alive?This episode of your motivational Personal Innovation Podcast Features, Nana Boatemaa Amoah, usually known simply as Boatemaa a passionate writer, blogger and inspirer.Boatemaa says above all things she is a Christian and believes; we all have a specific assignments to fulfill with our lives.

“That is one main reason why I decided to make my writing more than just a hobby, but also an opportunity to bless others. I never got round to blogging until a good friend of mine pushed me to muster the courage and let others see what I wrote. That was about almost two years ago, and I’m glad I took that step” She says.

Nana Boatemaa Amoah is extremely proud to be Ghanaian.She engages the pen as a tool to express her thoughts, to push her readers to be the best they can be.

“I think it’s an honour to share these writings with others and I hope over time, through my writings, people will also discover what special thing has been deposited in them to make this world a better place”. She says.

Boatemaa will rather Younevate because life is all about growth.

According to her; “You will never know what impact you will make and what you could have done differently”

Nana Boatemaa holds Marketing degree from legon while still in school she was writing while studying

She loved marketing because she gets to meet people and Likes to make people feel special.

In this episode of your motivational Personal Innovation podcast we are focusing on taking your career to the next level with Ahamed Nissar : Managing Editor of an online publication called careeermetic.com, a platform he created to help people  create their unique careers. Careermetis.com aims to be the primary destination for job-seekers and freelancers to find useful advice,insights,resources and inspiration for starting & growing their professional and freelance careers.

He is the Host of Careermetic Podcast: a podcast aimed at empowering today’s job seekers

Nissar absolutely prefers to YOUnovate than stagnate.

He believes that Stagnation is dangerous, bit instead it is important that in  this fast pace world we all acquire skills and be updated with what is currently on going in the world.

Since infancy Nissar always wanted to leave a trail in the world. He wanted to live life beyond the normal and that was pushed him as a child and as he was growing it became more clearer.

He said there is more to life than living it normally.

About what he is passionate about, He says what gets him excited is when someone gives him a call or sends an email thanking him for for helping them. The ability to make an impact whether small or big is what keeps him going.

Nissar Ahamed stressed that having formal education is important as it helps to acquire social interactive skills, even though he mentioned that he acquired many skills by actually doing something and practicing what he learned from school while on the job.

To Nissar, being aware of our personality types is important in building our careers. He warned, not to focus on the highest paying job out there, but focus rather on the skill.

Find a job out there that matches your personality not necessary one that that pays very well only.

Nissar Ahamed’s Favourite Quote is: The future belongs to those who prepares for it todayby Malcom X. He explain this quote by saying: Every day is important, and in order to get better results in the future, you have to be preparing and taking actions today if not, you will not reach that vision.

As a professional software sales man, Nissar went ahead to create a unique career for hims self as blogger na podcaster. He believes he is living his dream.

What he wants to achieve: empowering people by giving them the guidance, knowledge.

I am stoked to present to you a very inspiring and touching episode of your motivational Personal Innovation Podcast with my guest; Kow Cornelius, brought to you by personalinnovationhub.com.

My guest has always fantasied becoming a lawyer, a career he hope will help him speak for others who can not speak for themselves.

Interestingly this dream has today been transformed into becoming the voice of the voiceless. speaking for the deaf and hard of hearing people, empowering them to stand up for themselves and also educating the public on why they should bother caring for people in the deaf and hard of hearing community.

His love and passion for what he does today was inspired by his interest and eagerness to learn to communicate with  his family member who was deaf.

Cornelius was basically taught by this relative; the rudiments of sign language usage and interpretation. And this is how the journey began for Kow Cornelius.

He continued to read more and gather as much information about the deaf and hard of hearing community. Today Cornelius is seen as an authority in his field and is dreaming of establishing a university for the deaf in Ghana. In fact he has already started setting the foundations for his dream university with a remedial school for the deaf in Ghana.

Cornelius has a vision to elevate the Deaf Community with One Big Idea, to provide live transforming and productive opportunities for the Deaf and hard of hearing community.

As a social entrepreneur Cornelius  works with Sign language interpreters and instructors for a common goal of bridging the gap between the Deaf and hearing.

He is humbled to be recognised as a Thought leader and a go to person when it comes to the Deaf Community and Sign language interactions. He works to achieve total inclusion and shared opportunity for all.

Do you want to find out about how you can start a career, out of your experience of been cared for and your passion for caring for other people?

Listen to this episode of your favourite motivational Personal Innovation Podcast as I chat with Daniel Kweku Anguah Jr: founder of CARE, Child and Human Rights Activist and Social Entrepreneur.

In this Chat, Daniel Kweku Anguah Jr. said his childhood was not something he can wish for any child growing up today.

Coming from financially challenged family, Daniel had to sleep in a bar with his family. This bar serves as a bedroom in the nights and turns into a drinking spot in the day.

Fortunately Daniel became adopted by the SOS Children village where he lived and was taken good care of.

Interestingly, the fact that Daniel feels cared for, he has vowed to care for others as well through out his life.

Daniel believs “ no dream is ever too small.

D.K Anguah Jr, casually known as the Afrikan Son, is a multipotentialite, focused on Children’s Rights and Human Rights activism across Ghana with over 5 years of experience. He founded Children Are Reason Enough (C.A.R.E), a child rights protection and activism organisation which he has been running with his team of volunteers for the past 4 years.

As a strong proponent of Human Rights, Anguah believes that when people have better comprehension on the laws that govern and affect them, they will be well equipped to improve upon their lives at every point in time and defend themselves in most situations.

In this episode of your motivational Personal Innovation Podcast, I had a very insightful chat with Rya Kuewor.

Since childhood Rya dreamt of becoming a medical practitioner but this changed when he became homeless and had to beg for food and do menial jobs to survive.

Today, Rya is a refugee education and integration consultant with 6 years of working in higher and marginalised education in Ghana, Mali, and Burkina Faso, Singapore, and Kenya, and 4 years of working on refugee education with a special focus on societal integration.

His passion for refugees stems from him having been homeless once, and never having been formally educated.

Rya speaks 9 local and International languages, is a TEDx Speaker, and is a Fellow of the Amani Institute.

He has worked as a consultant for the Ghana Refugee Board through the Open University of West Africa, and also with a mobile education company in building and delivering entrepreneurship and healthcare courses to micro-entrepreneurs and secluded communities.

Rya has researched refugee societal and economic integration in the Krisan, Ampain, and Dadaab refugee camps. Today, Rya co-runs RIO (Refugee Integration Organisation) in Ghana and Brazil, working with refugees, Internally Displaced People (IDPs), and Persons of Concern (PoCs) and provides them with language and cultural courses, and scholarships for higher education in transferable skills.

His work promotes social inclusion and economic independence for refugees, IDPs, and PoCs in Africa and South America.

Listen to How Henry Cobblah has created a career to solve Africa’s problems in this episode of your motivational Personal Innovation Podcast and how he wants you to do same.

I had a lively chat with Henry Cobblah who is very passionate about creating solutions to Africa’s problems. Henry believes that we all need to be humble enough to learn every day. it is not enough to identify problems and complain about them, henry is on a mission to use his skills, network and knowledge to solve Africa’s problems.

For Henry, Personal Innovation is all about thinking more about how we all need to come together to make the world work better. it is the inclusive and the collaborative view of the world that makes sense to him.

With an inspiration from Jack Ma; founder of Alibaba, Henry is ignited to leave a dent on the universe through his work. His future projects are focused on big data and creating platforms for young Africans to excel in their creative professions.

Henry learns online every day, is open to new ideas from other people each, and shares his knowledge through teaching.

He recommends the Mobile phone as a key tool for every body to leverage to facilitate their growth and development in their careers, businesses and personal lives.

He says it is also important to understand how to use Google effective to the advantage of our careers and businesses.

“if not now when, if not me who” is Henry’s watch word. He also believes that it is important for us all to ask our self “who we are, what we have and what we have to trade off.

Henry Cobblah founded iSolveAfrica Limited, in 2012 whiles at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to provide innovative solutions for Africa. He did his national service in his own start up after graduating. His company has ever since created over 298 websites and mobile applications in and outside Ghana.

Along side this, Henry co-founded a social enterprise that provided sexual reproductive health education and guidance platform for people who do not have the voice to talk about issues of STDs, Family planning and reproductive health.

Are you thinking of becoming an Entrepreneur? Do you know your love for fitness can become that pivot to impact lives and live your life as a love story? Listen to this episode of your favourite motivational Personal Innovation Podcast and Randy will inspire you with his “love story.”

“Younovation Family”; Thank you very much for tuning in as always. I am Eric Seyram, your personal Innovation evangelist. My work is simply to make us all think bigger about who we are, what we do in a unique way and how we can change the world through doing what we love.

Are you searching for that dream job? Are you aiming at creating a career that helps you to be relevant in todays very very dynamic and volatile world of work?

In this episode of your favourite Personal Innovation Podcast, I interviewed Felix Nartey who has created a career for him self through volunteering his skills and time.

Volunteerism actually enabled Felix to acquire very market demanding and employable skills that distinguishes him from his peers today.

This episode is therefore centred on the theme of “Building the necessary skills for your dream job through volunteerism”

Felix Nartey is an Open Activist and a youth Empowerment Coach. He is the 2017 Wikimedian of the Year award recipient, a cofounder of Creative Commons Ghana and a Co-founder and Director of Open Foundation West Africa (OFWA), an NGO that is solving one of his childhood problems “access to information or knowledge”. Open Foundation west Africa trains the youth on acquiring the 21st century skills in ICT by exposing the youth to skill sets from the “Open World“, a world that is today ensuring free and open access to information, knowledge, technology and other resources with open (non copyright) licenses.

He works with the WIkimedia Foundation in the capacity of the Global Coordinator of the Wikipedia Library and serves as a member of the drafting committee for the Movement Strategy of the Wikimedia Foundation and a member of the Advisory Committee of Global Network Strategy for Creative Commons. He is a fanatic of technology and strong advocate for volunteerism.

He has empowered the youth through programs that has introduced participants to comprehend with digital currencies and how to position themselves to benefit from such a new trend, building creative writing skills and how to write in an encyclopedic tone, recruited and trained developers to contribute to open source platforms. He is also a pioneering member of the team that instituted the National Volunteer Day which later birthed the Ghana Volunteer Program. A program that has empowered thousands of volunteers and impacted tens of thousands of people.