tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455345690424277303.comments2009-12-24T13:39:23.732+10:30Villagers Programming MicrochipsArif Rahmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11094805160148375231noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455345690424277303.post-45285838946631426102009-12-24T05:09:33.799+10:302009-12-24T05:09:33.799+10:30This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.bathmatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08828026417866333107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455345690424277303.post-7712605240668810002008-04-02T18:17:00.000+10:302008-04-02T18:17:00.000+10:30STUDENTS ARE OUR FUTURE DECISSION MAKERS.There is ...STUDENTS ARE OUR FUTURE DECISSION MAKERS.<BR/>There is saying:<BR/>“You do not need an army to destroy a country. Just destroy the education system”<BR/><BR/>·Building a future with our students<BR/>Reviving Science / Mathematics education<BR/><BR/>Industry – Education & Government <BR/><BR/>Reviving Science / Mathematics education and to grow electronics education is a monumental task that calls for all stakeholders collaboration.<BR/><BR/>CoreChart is motivating students to learn across the curriculum from junior schools to high schools and preparing them for serious research at tertiary level and countless cost-effective industrial / consumer applications.<BR/><BR/>·Eliminating Poverty: Growth&Empowerment<BR/><BR/>Creating a World Without Poverty: <BR/>The way it works is that instead of giving money away to a non-profit charity, you help create businesses -- in fact new business models - Using simple technology approach (CoreChart) along with micro-financing. One example is the Kyrgyzstan pasteurization project. (The word ‘simple’ used in this text describing technology means simple to use, but it is complex in its outcomes). <BR/><BR/>As little as $25 can motivate an entrepreneur in the developing world by givimg out small loans. This process allows that money to grow and be reused and help create true sustainability, unlike the charity dollar which must be raised each year.<BR/><BR/>WHY DID I START WITH THE TWO ABOVE STATEMENTS?<BR/><BR/>Because these two statements are interconnected – and integrate into an exciting story for Australia and the world.<BR/><BR/>My name is Kevin Witkowski and I have been involved in the electronic industry for over 35 years.<BR/><BR/>I have been and still am a concerned member of the South Australian and Australian community and have for many years been involved in ensuring that we here in South Australia have programs to encourage:<BR/>·Our students to be interested in Mathematics Science and Engineering<BR/>·That we have a vibrant R&D Manufacturing Industry in Electronics and ITC.<BR/><BR/>I am also the founder and member of the Senior Industry Mentor Supporter (SIMS) group. SIMS was developed to encourage students at school to take up mathematics, science and engineering through the CoreChart software program and the Robotic Peer Mentoring (RPM) program. <BR/><BR/>SIMS is a group where senior and retired engineers, teachers and other experts in their fields, work together with eLabtronics go out into schools to encourage mathematics, science and engineering to students, parents and teachers. This program then extends through RPM where industry mentors universities, university students go o high schools to mentor and high school students could also go to primary schools to do some mentoring.<BR/><BR/>What is very exciting is that CoreChart and RPM has been extended to “Poverty Relief” It is an extraordinary project where it aims to solve the complex worldwide problem of poverty with a simple technology approach along with micro financing. <BR/><BR/>The challenge is the pre-eminent humanitarian challenge of our age. This challenge calls on all Australia and the rest of the world to create a sustainable and scalable ecosystem for wealth creation and eradicate the world of poverty at the same time. <BR/><BR/>Eliminating Poverty: Growth and Empowerment<BR/><BR/>The emphasis for sustainable projects to succeed in developing countries, there needs to be an environment where people can take charge of their lives – where they are their own agents of change. In other words “Empowerment is the key to successful development.<BR/><BR/>The most exciting outcome is that we have now taken the CoreChart program into underdeveloped and developing countries to help them to eradicate poverty by helping themselves. One such program is currently conducted in Kyrgyzstan, another in Malawi.<BR/><BR/>What excites me more is the project that Mr. Adilet Zhusupbekov, STLI and Peace Corp and Colin Pridham are doing in Kyrgyzstan. Mr. Adilet Zhusupbekov is teaching local people to solve and provide high technical solutions through microchip technology using CoreChart, state-of- the- art software. Here is a software development product that allows the villagers in Kyrgyzstan to help themselves and their country to eradicate poverty, increasing health of its people through technology.<BR/><BR/>Mr. Adilet Zhusupbekov is currently working with Peace Corps volunteer and committed talented young locals to develop a pasteurization project to stop risk of infection from Brucellosis.<BR/><BR/>This is one of many projects that are being considered and these people need us to support them. As C.K. Prahard wrote, “eradicating poverty through profits” and “ he also wrote “ enabling dignity and choice through markets”<BR/><BR/>Mark Malloch Brown wrote “A important and insightful work showing persuasively how private sector can be put at the centre of development, not just as a rhetorical flourish but as a real engine of jobs and services for the poor”<BR/><BR/>There are many buzz words and phrases used and in today’s world to justify one’s actions. The current phrase is: “social corporate conscious responsibility”.<BR/><BR/>We don not need phrases to make it sound right. We need actions. I believe that we are all brothers and sisters living on the same planet and our responsibility is to look after one another.<BR/><BR/>Ken Blanched summed it up in this way. “Many people recognize that poverty is a major problem in the world, yet they throw up their hands and say, ‘What to do?’ <BR/><BR/>Well, there are people like, SIMS, Peng Choo of eLabtronics, Oak Tree Foundation, Engineers without Borders and many more that are doing something positive. <BR/><BR/>Now try the same thing on the corporate level with larger funding and from organisations like Bill Gates Foundation, C.K. Prahald, World Vision etc., and you can begin to see that it is truly possible to create a "world without poverty", and that poverty is indeed an "artificial construction."<BR/><BR/>When we combine all these forces, some small some large, but as a group traveling on the same road in the same direction, then it will make a difference. <BR/><BR/>The World IT congress is being held in Malaysia this year and the agenda for some of the most powerful people in the world attending are also the believers that say. “It is possible to eradicate poverty in the undeveloped and developing countries” using the formula… Simple technology approach along with micro financing is the answer to Creating a World Without Poverty.<BR/><BR/>Please donate so our message to be aired with the most influential leaders in Creating a World Without Poverty<BR/><BR/>Kevin WitkowskiSIMShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17600619237253530646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455345690424277303.post-2247057675951961142008-03-25T17:26:00.000+10:302008-03-25T17:26:00.000+10:30Arif, you are a role model for youth all over the ...Arif, you are a role model for youth all over the world! As a Malaysian staying in Australia, I'm proud of you. This is simply amazing! A Malaysian student championing an Australian Corechart technology to support poor villagers from Kyrgyzstan to share their experience at the WCIT on how they develop sustainable and scalable microchip-based projects as a poverty eradication model.<BR/><BR/>This fund-raising campaign deserves our support . I personally would like to offer my own house in Kuala Lumpur as accommodation for this delegation.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps , individuals and IT organizations in Malaysians could contribute in money or in kind (transport, airtickets, etc) for this worthy cause. <BR/><BR/>The WCIT also provides an excellent platform to showcase Australian technology and offer more Corechart programs as technology sponsorships. This ties in well with Australian Govt. visionary program of providing 1 m free computers to schools.<BR/><BR/>Dr.YKK Chief Mind Unzipper <BR/>www.mindbloom.net<BR/>http://www.creative-governance.blogspot.com/Chief Mind Unzipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01320406930247342354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455345690424277303.post-91183939739245876892008-03-20T07:08:00.000+10:302008-03-20T07:08:00.000+10:30Sounds like a great idea. Good luck with your plan...Sounds like a great idea. Good luck with your plan. Let's hope it is as successful as you wish.Richard Drogemullerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14289076375658873111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455345690424277303.post-4115684659873091712008-03-19T11:44:00.000+10:302008-03-19T11:44:00.000+10:30ArifYou are doing Malaysia proud! You have a deep ...Arif<BR/><BR/>You are doing Malaysia proud! You have a deep interest to share the Kyrgyzstan solution for Poverty Eradication at the WCIT2008 in Malaysia! <BR/><BR/>This blog will inspire and help those who already have similar interest. <BR/><BR/>Your work to help Kyrgyzstan villagers realise their dreams are no more than paving the way for Malaysia to grab this initiative to lead the world in poverty reduction! <BR/><BR/>Being the host for WCIT2008 18-22 May, Malaysia no doubt be able to show the world it does not only talk but really act by show casing the Kyrgyzstan poverty eradication project.<BR/><BR/>Best of luck<BR/><BR/>CC for Poverty Relief AllianceAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16431401628624221400noreply@blogger.com