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Throughout
the last twenty years, the new technologies and more especially micro
electronics, micro computers, and telecommunications have developed and
increased the gap between industrialized countries and the emerging
countries located in Africa.
People
living in the latter mentioned countries have demonstrated a perfect
adaptation to imported mechanical devices due to their good know how
and cleverness. On the contrary, importation of TV sets, cell phones,
and personal computers has lead them to insolvable maintenance problems
because the national education system favors theoretical knowledge to
the prejudice of hands-on training.
The
only solution in the absence of adequate maintenance, know-how, tools,
components, or spare parts has been to increase importing of new goods
from Asia. .
Thus,
for example, these countries have had no other options for
telecommunications than to invest in new technologies, no standard
network being available. So they have taken up a very heavy financial
load, completely out of proportion with their financial resources.
The
idea was raised to create schools to train maintenance technicians so
as to solve this problem. The Foundation obviously seemed to be the
right institution to support financially and legally such a project. So we decided to take up the challenge.
Today
the Foundation for Technical Education has been created, and we are
ready to teach our know how to young people of these countries.
More
than ten expert personalities featuring a large panel of competencies
are involved in this project, and our funds are fully available.
Let
me suggest that you assess our Foundation and the efficiency of our
project: "Kilimanjaro International Institute for Telecommunication,
Electronics and Computers" which follows this foreword.
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