Africa - Industrialisation gaps & "grafting on" the Fourth Industrial Revolution


Africa - Industrialisation gaps & "grafting on" the 4th Industrial Revolution


So we have first world and third world countries, one could safely say this is mainly in terms of civilisation characterised by economic and industrial development.
From these descriptions alone it is clear that there is a gap in between such countries yet globalisation is no longer an analyst  or textbook phenomena. So a drone can be seen in the remotest part of an african village, yes modern technology literally knows no borders, think google earth? Yes  that kind of technological penetration. This therefore brings one to say with this kind of advancement does the third world  really need to catch up with the first world on a linear development format? Not necessarily so, it is possible to devise strategies of blending in the fourth industrial revolution to the third world by mostly leapfrogging and literally "grafting on" concepts and systems where it is practical and urgent.

The idea is to approach as level playing fields as possible whist leveraging available resources which tend to belong uniquely to individual countries irregardless of their state of economic and industrial development.
In the non linear development strategy as  Africans we need to define and determine our key leveraging points and positions even at the ushering in of Artificial Intelligence (AI) which would characterise the fourth industrial
revolution.  The large numbers of robots which would be built to justify the term "revolution" would need components made from resources abundantly found in africa, these could infact be extracted, value added, fully processed and used to build the robots on African soil in new plants and exported anywhere in the world where comparative advantages favour Africa.
One therefore asks, If the above is a possibility for Africa to leap frog and graft on concepts bridging the development gaps, what will it take and what should we do from where we are right now individually and collectively as a continent?

THE GOLDEN WORD FOUNTAIN - (TGWF)

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