The National Science and Technology Council (NSDTC) says Government will spend over K5 Billion on the establishment of an Electronic Library on Science and Technology in the Country.
(NSTC) Executive Secretary Dr. Dennis Wachinga said in an interview in Kitwe yesterday that the Library would focus on the collection and housing of rare important works in various subject areas of Science, Technology and mathematics education.
Dr. Wachinga said Zambia lacks modernized Science Library to enable Scientist and other researchers do their work.
He added that their Electronic Library would be localized to Southern, Northern and Luapula Provinces to ensure that Scientists and researchers may have their facilities at the door step.
And Dr. Wachinga has disclosed that government has released over K2 Billion for wealth creation and poverty reduction programmes through the development of science and technology.
He said so far over K1 billion has been released under the young inventors fund and the strategic fund to support scientific innovations that would add value to poverty eradication and wealth creation in the country.
He said the two fund projects have received a lot of support from government and overwhelming response from members of the public.
Dr. Wachinga disclosed that so far 10 projects, five under each project fund have been funded.
He added that the youth inventors fund and strategies fund must be supported fully as they aim at improving the quality of life of Zambians by contributing to wealth creation through banking and science and technology, which he said are the cornerstone of all human endeavors.
Dr. Wachinga is in Kitwe to attend the two day copper belt planning and sensitization workshop.
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Good work on that one,for once i thought it was going to be based in lsk,by the way how does one qualify to obtain funds from the youth investors funds,any ideas out there
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Dr Wachinga, is this electronic library web based. This is good news to those of us interested in sustatinable and innovative ways of development. Give me your website please. I have just finished my first house and I want it to run on solar energy including geysers. (No bills, no load shedding). For cooking and pressing i will use gas. I’m also scheming of owning a farm soon with serious irrigation driven by windmill based borehole. From my livestock manure I have draft plans to generate methane gas which will …….
This one Dr. Wachinga should not be telling the nation stories or plans in their intial stages. We need pipo who make pronouncements that there will be a ground breaking ceremony on this and that project. By siting these modern labs in Eastern, Northern and Southern Provinces, does it mean other provinces do need such facilities. Scarce resources should be distributed equally coz other provinces will lag behind.
while i appreciate my colleague, i dont understand why other provinces are left out and if this is an electronic library, then we should talk of all areas covered by zamtel for access of internet lines. we need to re focus on the way forward, science wise in zambia because at the moment, the scientist is one of the most despised person in the employment circles while accountants, engineers and now court clerks are becoming more prominent. to succeed, we need to know that science and technology plays a pivotal role in sustaining economies. look at how china has invested in ICT, Biotech and other science disciplines. in zambia, those who do social work are most likely to be high level decision makers even in boards like science boards while they delegate the scientist to the lab.
The lack of interest by chaps in this subject at hand shows how chikwakwa subjects, corruption and politics are inflluencing Zambian lives today without any results to show for all this. Science and Technology provide most of the potential answers to todays developmental needs. Look at even the blogging to happen. Sm1 somewhere where had to fund this technology in research to commercialise these it among other things. For us Zedians, we are preoccupied with consumption and critique without offering alternatives. For all the science we learn in Universities and colleges, it i9s annoying to be spaectators of …
#6 The problem with our scientists in Zambia is the way they approach subjects of great importance. Many coumtries have advanced in science & technology by putting into practice the same things we learnt in schools, Colleges and Univeristies. Very often you will find our scientists confined to doing experiments and off duty drinking their heads off hence giving room to those who have done social sciences to take a leading role. There is need to change the mid set of our friends in white duty coats. The other thing killing our advancement is lack of political will from our leaders. I see no point why we should be importing engine blocks etc yet these could be moulded at Zambia Railways Workshop in Kabwe and other places on Copperbelt. What is made in Zambia is inferior but when same item
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