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David W Strangway,David W Strangway, PhD, FRSC, OCPhD, FRSC, OC
Founder, Quest University CanadaFounder, Quest University Canada

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 Resident of Bie, Angola from 1934 to 1952
 Parents created and ran hospital in Angola from 1927 to
1967
 Umbundu name - Cikomo
MY LIFE IN ANGOLA

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 Degrees from University of Toronto in geophysics
 Geophysical Exploration and mapping for mining companies for several years
across North America
 Faculty member - University of Colorado, MIT, University of Toronto
 Chief Geophysicist - NASA for Apollo lunar missions
 President - University of Toronto and University of British Columbia
 President - Canada Foundation for Innovation
 Founder - Quest University Canada
 Author - 170 research papers on earth and planetary science
MY EXPERIENCE IN
UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT,
AND THE MINING INDUSTRY

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ANGOLA
AN OIL AND GAS
RICH NATION 1
Offshore Concessions
ranging from near shore
to deep and to ultra-
deep fields (9% of
output goes to Canada)
Liquefied Natural Gas
potential very high

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ANGOLA
AN OIL AND GAS RICH NATION 2
Africa and South America split apart forming oil and gas rich basins 80-100 million
years ago
Cross section of Africa and South America offshore basins when placed together
showing pre salt deposits

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ANGOLA
AN OIL AND GAS RICH NATION 3
Kwanza Basin and Campos Basin deposits

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ANGOLA
A DIAMOND RICH NATION
Angola is rich in source kimberlites and alluvial deposits, produces
13% of world’s diamonds by values

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 Great mineral potential; Minister Queiroz predicts that mining may
exceed oil sector
 National Geological plan to include geophysical mapping of the
country
 Potential for iron ore, copper, platinum group metals, rare earths and
others
 Angola has 26% of Africa’s water resources and major hydropower
potential
 Fishing resources driven by the Benguela current
 Angola has significant forest resources and rich agricultural
opportunities
ANGOLA
A MINING AND RESOURCE NATION

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ANGOLA
A YOUNG NATION
Working age population to
2050
Empower young people to
capture the demographic
dividend (AfDB)

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 Angola Gross Domestic Product is $120 billion per year today
 Gross Domestic Product projected in Angola Vision 2025 to grow to
$240 billion per year at growth rate of 7%/yr.
 World Bank says Angola well on the way to becoming a medium-
income country
 Target 2025- GDP per person $13,000/yr.
 Reduce poverty by 75%
 Create 8.5 million jobs
ANGOLA PROJECTIONS

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 Climate Change for the planet
 Human Wellbeing and Development for people
 Societal Transformation – billion richest account for 70% of
consumption
 Billion poorest account for 1% of natural resource use
 World Economic Forum – Severe income disparity is a greater
disruptive risk than climate change
 Emissions, standards of living, and global ecological limits are
closely interlinked
GRAND CHALLENGES
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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 HDI based on:
 a. long and healthy life - life expectancy is 51.5
 b. access to knowledge – mean years of schooling – 4.7
- expected years of schooling – 10.2
 c. gross national product - $6200
 Angola is 148 out of 187 countries with a value of .508 -
potential with reduced inequality
 HDI corrected for income inequality (IHDI) – reduces HDI
to .285 – actual
ANGOLA
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX (HDI)

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 Energy
 Food
 Housing
 Education
 Health
 Employment
 Good governance
GRAND CHALLENGES
POVERTY REDUCTION/PEOPLE NEED ACCESS TO SERVICES

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 Transformation needed in linked areas of environment, technology
and society
 Requirements for Sub Saharan Africa Transformation
 an educated populace
 training of professionals
 centers of high skills and excellence in research
 Need to increase number of PhDs granted by African universities
 Need to provide opportunities for PhDs to return or stay in Africa
 20,000 professionals leave Africa every year
“The terms and conditions of academic work in African universities must be sufficiently
attractive to retain top talent” Phillip Altbach
GRAND CHALLENGES
Transformation - Environment, Technology and
Society

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 Developed World 2.0 – 4.0
 African Union objective for each country in Africa 1.0
 In Africa, only South Africa is close to 1.0
 Sub Saharan Africa, without south Africa 0.3
GROSS EXPENDITURES ON RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GERD/GDP)
DEVELOPED WORLD COUNTRIES WITH RESEARCH
CHAIRS TO STRENGTHEN CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE
Canada, Finland, Australia, Portugal, and
several others including Saudi Arabia

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 SOUTH AFRICA Research Chairs Initiative (SARCHI)
 South Africa has created over 160 funded chairs – program modeled on Canada Research Chairs
 Delivering excellent results of research and training Masters and PhDs
 Chair Holders attract more competitive research funds internationally than they are provided
 TANZANIA
 Government has created the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology –
focused only on Masters and PhDs.
 Creating a program of research chairs
 BOTSWANA
 “Diamonds Are Not Forever” strategy
 Creating new Botswana University of Science and Technology – now open
 Establishment of Botswana Innovation Hub and a chairs program
 MALAWI
 New University of Science and Technology in 2014
 ZIMBABWE
 Three new regional universities
EXAMPLES OF SUB SAHARAN AFRICA
ACTIONS - 1

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 KENYA
 creating silicon savannah to anchor innovation hub
 establish program of research chairs – first two now in place
 EAST AFRICA
 Aga Khan Foundation establishing modern hospitals and the
Aga Khan University
 RWANDA
 established campus of Carnegie Mellon University as the focus
of an innovation hub on ICT
 public universities put under one management to help build
graduate and research strength
 BURKINA FASO
 established major research campus on Environment and Water
(2IE) with emphasis on graduate and research work
 NIGERIA
 new Nelson Mandela University of Science and Technology in
Abuja
EXAMPLES OF SUB SAHARAN AFRICA
ACTIONS – 2

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 AFRICAN UNION – Pan African University with 4 campuses (soon 5)
 Key Element of African Development Bank ten year strategy 2013-2023
Graduate and research universities:
 Ibadan University, Nigeria – Institute of life sciences and earth sciences
( including health and agriculture)
 Yaounde University 11, Cameroon, Institute of governance, humanities and
social sciences
 Jomo Kenyatta University, Kenya, Institute of basic sciences, technology and
innovation
 Aboubekr Belkaid University, Tiemen, Algeria, Institute of water and energy
sciences (including climate change) to open in 2014
 Southern Africa – Institute of Space and Satellite Sciences (to be established)
EXAMPLES OF SUB SAHARAN AFRICA
ACTIONS – 3

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 The World Academy of Science (the Developing World) (previously the
Third World Academy of Science)
 Many African countries have academies of science
 African Academy of Science
 Network of African Science Academies
 IAP – The global network of science academies
 African Observatory of Science and Technology and Innovation (AOSTI) -
African Union
RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY

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 High level panel on Science, Technology and Innovation (2014-2024) –
report to be released soon – includes the idea of chairs
 African Ministerial Council on Science and Technology (AMCOST)
 Conference of Ministers of Education of the African Union (COMEDAF)
 Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA)
 Association of African Universities
 “The panel has recommended that that attention be given to advanced
education and R and D facilities on the continent” AUC Commission
PAN AFRICAN
ORGANIZATIONS

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 Angola stands on the threshold of becoming a developed country over the
next 20 years
 Angola has many issues to deal with on this journey
 It has the resources to address the needs of its people
 It has the resources that will permit it to develop a diversified economy
 It can become the country that my father dreamed of as he gave his whole
life to the development of the Angolan people
 He did this through access to better medicine, better public health, better
education, better farming, better forestry, increased life expectancy.
FINAL REFLECTIONS

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Many thanks for the
opportunity to reflect on my
home country’s future.