The workshop was held on the 30th September, at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya and telecast live on Facebook. The Keynote speaker was Dr Morne Mostert who challenged the audience with some key reflective questions on decision-making to shape the future.
Some key questions/reflections raised by Dr Mostert were:
- The quality of your thinking drives the quality of your future – (quality of cognitive processing) – if someone outsmarts you he will design a future for you.
- How do we discern the noise-to-signal ratio?
- What are we learning from our skunk works through experimentation and rapid-prototying? What are we signaling to future generations? What is the evidence that we are anticipatory leaders?
- The Economist – May 2000 (Africa – The Hopeless Continent) – 2010 – Africa is Rising – Aspiring Africa – Making Africa Work – 2016 : Africa’s Fragile Democracies (this is where the idea of a think tank incubator emerged)
Mr Auckbur, Director e-education and TVET from the parent Ministry was also involved as a panelist, and I spoke about the GESCI-UOM partnerships and plans of our future collaboration with them. The idea was also to extend UoM’s role in the Leadership for Sustainable Development Platform where GESCI will look for an academic host for the platform for a period of two years (by rotation among partners academic institutions). The idea of a Thinktank incubator also emerged during the discussions with my friends Tarek Chehidi and Morne Mostert.
