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Whilst competitive headwinds remain, represented through the recent second bankruptcy filing of Sungard, which blames “COVID-19 and other macroeconomic trends including delayed customer spending decisions, insourcing and reductions in IT spending, energy inflation and reduction in demand for certain services”, the industry has seen key adjustments, where MCG believes that engineering cost management and technological innovation will be paramount to success.
MCG reports that the more favorable market conditions expected over the next few years, helped by the winding down of pandemic restrictions and a hybrid working environment will be driving market momentum forward. The continuous injection of capital by alternative investment firms, as well as the growing infrastructural investment from cloud service providers and social media companies, whose revenues are expected to grow over 3.6x larger by value in 2026, will likely help propel center provision and innovation. These factors paint a promising picture for the industry players that offset rising input costs and adapt to new technologies.
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Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
3. 3
OVERVIEW
1. KNOWLEDGE IS A KEY COMMODITY AND A DEFINING
SOURCE OF WEALTH IN A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND
SOCIETY. LESS DEVELOPED ECONOMIES ARE
CHARACTERISED BY LOWER LEVELS OF UTILISATION OF
INFORMATION TO PRODUCE KNOWLEDGE AND
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) TO DRIVE THEIR
DEVELOPMENT.
2. BOTSWANA LIKE MANY CUNTRIES IN AFRICA
ACKNOWLEDGES THE EXISTENCE OF KNOWLEDGE AS A
CRITICAL DRIVER OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
3. YET OUR ECONOMIES PRODUCE MASSIVE DATA THAT IS
NOT TRANSFORMED INTO KNOWLEDGE.
4. 4
OVERVIEW
4. IN RECENT TIMES, OUR GOVERNMENTS, PRIVATE SECTOR AND UNIVERSITIES
BAND AROUND CONCEPTS LIKE INTERNATIONALISATION, PARTNERSHIPS AND
COLLABORATION.
5. THESE CONCEPTS ARE PART OF THE 21ST CENTURY SKILLS. THEIR
APPLICATION WILL ENHANCE RESULTS AND REDUCE COSTS IN EVERYTHING
WE DO. INDEED INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE SHOWS THAT EFFECTIVE
PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN INDUSTRY-ETPS ENHANCES CREATIVITY,
PRODUCTIVITY AND INNOVATION.
6. BUT EFFECTIVE COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIPS MUST START AT HOME.
AT LOCAL, REGIONAL/PROVINCIAL AND NATIONAL LEVELS WITHIN EACH
COUNTRY.
5. 5
OVERVIEW
7. BOTSWANA AND THE CITY OF GABORONE (GCC) IN PARTICULAR, HAS
GREAT POTENTIAL FOR EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATION AT
REGIONAL AND NATIONAL LEVELS.
8. WITH HER UNIVERITIES AND COLLEGES, RESEARCH INSTITUTES AND INDUSTRY
BASE, GABORONE SHOULD BE AN EFFECTIVE KNOWLEDGE HUB.
9. IN THE FOREGOING CONTEXT, TODAY’S ODOS FORUM MEETING MARKS A
POSITIVE STEP IN THIS DIRECTION.
6. 6
• AT PRESENT BOTSWANA HAS NO RESEARCH COUNCIL TO CO-ORDINATE AND SET
DIRECTION FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY.
• MANY INSTITUTIONS, PARASTATALS, DEPARTMENTS AND PRIVATE SECTOR AND
CIVIL SOCIETY ENTITIES DOING RESEARCH DO SO INDEPENDENTLY WITH LITTLE
CO-ORDINATION AND COLLABORATION. IN SHORT THEY OPERATE IN AN UNCO-
ORDINATED ENVIRONMENT.
• EFFORTS TO CO-ORDINATE RESEARCH ACTIVITY IN THE COUNTRY THROUGH THE
DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH,SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (DRST) HAVE NOT YET
ACHIEVED MUCH.
• THE 2016 MINISTRIAL RE-STRUCTURING MOVED A STEP TOWARDS CO-
ORDINATION BY PUTTING MOST OF THESE INSTITUTIONS UNDER ONE MINISTRY
OF RESEARCH,TERTIARY EDUCATION AND SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MoTE).
BACKGROUND TO ODOS FORUM
7. 7
About us - Joint Minds Consult
Research, Education &
Training Institute
Research, Training, Knowledge
Development & Management,
Student Support – Masters & PhDs
International Board + Country
Management Structure
CORE TEAM AT JOINT MINDS
CONSULT
CAN BE VIEWED AT
www.jointmindsconsult.com
Advocate – ODOS/ Member
RDA/CODATA
Endorser SI Accord -
TECHNICAL ADVISORY BOARD
MEMBER - AOSP
8. 8
Figure. 3 JMCproposed Quadrant approach . Adapted on source: World map by www.freeworldmaps.net
D] European Union block
and Russia
E]Asia
B] USA and Canada
C1 ] The
Caribbean and
South America
F]. Central +
East Africa
A] PRINCIPAL CONSULTANTS-
BOTSWANA
R.C- Jamaica
R.C - Barbados
R.C- U.K
R.C-
India
R.C -Zambia
GLOBAL SPREAD AND NETWORK OF CONSULTANTS
A] SADC
G] West +
North Africa
H] Middle
East
I] Horn of
Africa
J] Australia and New
Zealand
C2 USA
9. 9
OPERATIONALIZING
OPEN
ACCESS/DATA IN
BOTSWANA
- OUR
EXPERIENCES-
“[Botswana] is yet to
fully tap into the global
movement towards
realizing [full benefits
of ] Open access”
(EAS, 2017:1)
STAGE 1: Our starting
point on Open Data Open
Science –henceforth
ODOS: So we identified 4-
5 strategic partners: UB,
BIUST, BIH, PRIVATE
UNIVERSITIES, PRIVATE
SECTOR BUSNESS &
MTERST
-ENTRY POINT -
DISCOURSE ON ODOS
SEMINARS
STAGE 2:
Developed
international links:
CODATA, RDA,
ACU/UK/US/FRANC
E/AUSTRALIA
- CONDUCTED
SEMINARS
MANAGED MEDIA
STAGE
3:MAPPING OUT
ISSUES OF OPEN
DATA IN
BOTSWANA
-DEVELOPED A
POSITION PAPER
OUTLINED A
BLURBRINT ON
ODOS
STAGE 4:
ESTABLISHED A
COALITION
BASED
STEERING
COMMITTEE –
THINK TANKING
STAGE 5:
ACCERALATE
ADVOCACY-
Presentations to
Government
departments
- International fora:
SA, Ghana, Italy,
Ethiopia, ACADEMIA,
ZENODO
STAGE 6:
BUILDING A
FUNCTIONAL
ODOS
FRAMEWORK –
-CEOs ODOS
breakfast meeting
-National
Endorsement
-Implementing plan
towards National
Forum
10. 10
WHAT ARE THE LESSONS LEARNT?
.
ODOS
NATIONAL
STEERING
COMMITTEE
HONEST
BROKER
COORDINATION
CENTRE
DEVELOP A
POSITION
PAPER
EXPEND SOCIAL
CAPITAL
STAKEHOLDERS
OPERATE IN
SILOS
MOVE
TOWARDS A
NATIONAL
FORUM
OPEN DATA
OPEN SCIENCE
POLICY
FORMULATION
11. 11
GABORONE AS A POTENTIAL KNOWLEDGE HUB
.
Greater
Gaborone
About 400
K+
Highest
concentration of
Universities and
Colleges (5
universities and more
than 10 colleges)
Highest
concentration of
research institutes
and knowledge
based parastatal
organisations
More than 15 primary
and senior secondary
schools
All major government
ministries and
departments
Concentration of
industrial base
Highest
concentration of
CSOs and Trade
Unions
Has 4 local
authorities
Highest
concentration of
Libraries and other
resource centres
Highest
concentration of
learners
