This document discusses how open education can catalyze science and engineering capacity building in Africa through globally networked organizations. It argues that open education supports autonomous learning and addresses complex issues, and that open innovation done in the context of open education is disruptive. It presents a multi-stakeholder innovation framework and a spiral innovation framework for biomedical engineering capacity building in Africa. It calls for an open education developer community to incorporate research deliverables into open learning platforms and recognize their audience extends beyond students.

1. Catalyzing Science & Engineering Capacity
Building in Africa Through Open Education;
Pivotal Roles For Globally-Networked
International-Organizations
Open Education Global Conference 2017
Samson Jarso PhD

2. Supports autonomous learning and addresses complexity,
disrupt those forces which disrupt development
Can Open Innovation Catalyze Science & Engineering in Africa?

3. (African) administrators, who operate between multilateral institutions and
individual investigators, are in critical need of expert attention applied
toward strategic planning.
Diop , World Bank’s Africa Region
Vice President, is passionate about
promoting STEM – science,
technology, engineering and
mathematics. He believes that
advancing these fields of study is
crucial to sustaining Africa’s
development…. World Bank is
betting big on STEM, investing
$150 million in an initiative called
the Africa Centers of Excellence.Dr. Diop , World Bank’s Africa Region Vice President

4. Graphical Visualization of the Distribution of Exports
(2014) United States Vs. Uganda

5. Current Innovation System open Innovation System
Public Sector
Private Sector
Academia
Private Sector
Public Sector
INGO’sNGO’s Multilateral Institutions INGO’sNGO’s Multilateral Institutions
We Catalyze Innovation by Changing the Innovation Framework
Open Innovation
Education
Knowledge Portfolio
Policy

6. Open education is at the center of
open innovation
…….Scientists and engineers need a
dedicated Open Education Developer
Community focused designing open
educational tools specific to science and
engineering!

7. Don Tapscott
Global Solution Networks
Global Solution Networks a
Framework for Understanding New
Models of Global Problem Solving
Moving beyond NGO’s
INGO’s Multilateral
Institutions

8. Developing Biomedical Engineering Capacity in Africa: A Pivotal AfDB Role by
Samson Jarso June 18, 2014
We catalyze innovation through the use of a
Multi-Stakeholder Innovation Framework

9. Spiral Innovation: A Framework for Successful
Biomedical Engineering Capacity Building
Developing Biomedical Engineering Capacity in Africa: A Pivotal AfDB Role by
Samson Jarso June 18, 2014
Open Education
Must Deliver To
Each Step In The
Innovation Cycle

10. Clayton Christensen author
of The Innovators
Prescription a Disruptive
Solution for Healthcare
OPEN INNOVATION DONE IN THE CONTEXT
OF OPEN EDUCTION E IS DISSRUPTIVE

11. Hand held ultrasounds developed in the last 18 months
Philips (Lumify) Echopen

15. links between open education &
open science and Engineering innovation in Africa
• Translates all the intermediate R & D deliverables into
freely available objects for design and translation
• Creates new classes or objects to be incorporated into
open education blend learning
• Necessitates the development of open service business
models which may focus on the bundling of services

16. An open call to action…..
• Recommendation #1: There should be an open Education Developer
Community focused on incorporating intermediate deliverables for/from
research, translation, development and design into open learning platforms.
• Recommendation #2: The community must recognize that they are delivering
educational products to a much larger cohort than students….ie. Hospital
administrators, managers, tech transfer offices, government.
• Recommendation #3: Each stakeholder in open science and engineering must
learn how to operate in the spiral innovation framework