Today, I accepted the invitation of the United Nations to speak as a Distinguished Speaker during the 3rd PAGE Ministerial Conference in South Africa. The Conference will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, on 10-11 January 2019.

The Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Erik Solheim); Director General, International Labour Organization (Guy Ryder); and Republic of South Africa’s Minister of Environmental Affairs (Derek Hanekom) co-signed the invitation letter.

It is our obligations as global citizens to ensure that the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change are achieved. We must engineer new processes in business systems across industrial sectors to turn red economies (nations with massive inequalities) into greener ones where environments win even as citizens thrive economically.

Yes, it is not just the trees and rivers that need help; kids across African cities are still begging and hawking on roads when they should be in schools. That is even a greater call in building greener economies: it must be green for man before he can enjoy greens. Inclusive growths that scale abundance to ALL are desperately needed across our economies.

Ndubuisi Ekekwe

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Feed all the kids, send them to school; with these two, you have essentially taken care of the body and mind, and as a consequence – less spending on healthcare. Is it too much to ask? We have the farmlands, so technically, you do not need to import food, just farm and create abundance of food. With technology, that of education can be democratized; encouraging resource sharing.

Then the adults can tackle other serious issues, with the value chain involved in taking care of the first two. And before you know it, Africa would rise and use local knowledge to address the amalgam of challenges facing the continent.

But somehow, we believe that the solutions are domiciled in New York and Beijing, so we keep looking at those two places, and many more people are becoming hungry…

Well, the first step towards environmental sustainability is stomach sustainability, anything short of that would fail before it even starts.

I wish you happy presentation, just let the men and women in suit know that Africans no longer pay attention to long speeches, they just want ACTION; the type even a child in the womb could feel its impacts.

God bless Africa!

Good people, thank you for your kind words on my last LinkedIn post (here on Tekedia). Largely, I had not expected it would inspire many as it has done. Over the last few hours, parents have been sending me contacts to drop lines to their children!

Except my village which I love, and where kids would line up to meet whenever I visit home, I have not done really anything for the generous remarks.

Nonetheless, my hope is that some of us ahead in the ladder would expand the base for others to climb. That is why I started posting since last year.

Yet, in the league of impacts, I’m a baby. There are African legends around the world, doing awesome things. But many are on employment structures which make it impossible to share here. But they abound.

People do ask me: “what is your greatest career accomplishment?” My response has been “The ability to control ownership of things I create”. It inspires me to know I’m building wealth over cash bonus!

Last week, a Nigerian senator called … “I read that the U.S. government licensed your patent. …?” (read here ) I explained to him how Nigeria is UNlicensing its best (ASUU is on strike).

My Johns Hopkins University PhD work with the patent that came out of it has a major assignee: The United States Government via the National Science Foundation of the United States. I invented a special method of controlling the dexterity of medical robots, making such robots effective during minimally invasive surgeries.  This patent is currently used by some medical device companies.  The U.S. Government now has the rights to “make copies” as captured in the patent assignee file. Simply, it is now licensed to the United States Government which can use it in the National Science Foundation projects.

Let me thank all for the kind words. But note this: our future is of abundance. Believe in Africa!

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Ndubuisi, you may not be the most educated or wealthiest (far from it) person in Nigeria, but you have created a new basis of competition, as you always say. Yes, it’s uncommon for a black man to share information or knowledge, without feeling ‘threatened’ about his own probable diminishing of self-worth. This I believe is your greatest impact so far, across Africa. You may not be able to measure the effects, but in years to come, when more men and women from this continent begin to share information, to help lift others; most of the credits could be directed to you.

With what you have demonstrated so far, I believe many people from this part of the world, who are well educated, well travelled, and some very wealthy, will begin to open up more, share knowledge and ideas; and from there – bring many young people closer to their potentialities and aspirations. That unlocking of the ‘secret boxes’ is what Nigeria and Africa need most, not really the writing fat cheques and handing them out to those who are still suffering identity crisis.

You have started a movement, knowingly or unknowingly, but it must surely outlive you. Yes, it’s possible to share knowledge without the sharer losing anything. Better days ahead!

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