We at Light Years IP, an Ashoka-fellow run NGO agree, and are encouraged by this work.
We’ve rolled out a curriculum in Intellectual Property business strategies for East African farmers, exporters and stakeholders. These include women across northern Uganda to create businesses that are not ‘business as usual’ but business to better understand the value of products in final markets, and to enable ownership of supply chains and IP tools to leverage greater power in negotiation. 700 women are launching a new business, very much built from learning these new strategies.
We have also trained Maasai for 5 years to own their IP for sustainable income.
We couldn’t agree with you more. Curriculum needs to change. We would add that East African farmers, producers, and exporters are quite smart and tremendously capable at learning business, and moving beyond the simplistic concepts. I’ve been a university professor x 20 years but I always say - the best students are in East Africa.
Let’s connect. Happy to share our workbooks and curriculum
So much about how and where kids learn has changed over the years, but the physical structure of schools has not. Looking around most school facilities even those that aren’t old and crumbling it’s obvious that so much of it is obsolete today, and yet still in wide use.
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BY Meg Brindle
ON July 6, 2015 01:42 PM
We at Light Years IP, an Ashoka-fellow run NGO agree, and are encouraged by this work.
We’ve rolled out a curriculum in Intellectual Property business strategies for East African farmers, exporters and stakeholders. These include women across northern Uganda to create businesses that are not ‘business as usual’ but business to better understand the value of products in final markets, and to enable ownership of supply chains and IP tools to leverage greater power in negotiation. 700 women are launching a new business, very much built from learning these new strategies.
We have also trained Maasai for 5 years to own their IP for sustainable income.
We couldn’t agree with you more. Curriculum needs to change. We would add that East African farmers, producers, and exporters are quite smart and tremendously capable at learning business, and moving beyond the simplistic concepts. I’ve been a university professor x 20 years but I always say - the best students are in East Africa.
Let’s connect. Happy to share our workbooks and curriculum
BY Geraldine Hepp
ON July 6, 2015 11:31 PM
Dear Meg, it’s a pleasure to learn about your work and we are happy to connect! Please send me a mail so we can take this further.
Warmly,
Geraldine Hepp
Communications Director, Amani Institute
BY paul
ON July 7, 2015 12:08 AM
So much about how and where kids learn has changed over the years, but the physical structure of schools has not. Looking around most school facilities even those that aren’t old and crumbling it’s obvious that so much of it is obsolete today, and yet still in wide use.