Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Africa's tallest building set for $10 billion Tech City in Ghana

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/20/tech/hope-city-ghana/index.html


(CNN) -- Right now, it's nothing more than an empty plot of land, covered by just a few shrubs and the odd Neem tree. But within a few years, these grass plains just outside Accra, Ghana, could be transformed into a fertile breeding ground for world-class innovation.

Earlier this month, Ghanaian president John Mahama launched Hope City, a $10 billion high-tech hub aiming to foster technological growth and attract major players in the global ICT industry to the West African country.

The ambitious project is the brainchild of Ghanaian businessman Roland Agambire, head of local technology group RLG Communications. Smart and futuristic, the hub's sustainable facilities will include an assembly plant for various tech products, business offices, an IT university and a hospital, as well as housing and recreation spaces, including restaurants, theaters and sports centers.

"What is lacking in the African continent is a place where you can have well-designed products, backed with concrete research and proper hardware and software developers to be able to create infrastructure for the telecoms industry," says Agambire, 39, whose company has acquired the land where the technopolis will be built.

"So the inspiration behind Hope City is to have an iconic ICT park where ICT players from all over the world can converge to design, fabricate and export software and everything arising from this country," he adds.

Construction is expected to begin by June 2013 and when completed -- within three years, if everything goes as planned -- the technology park could house 25,000 residents and create jobs for 50,000 people.

Agambire, one of Ghana's top businessmen, says his company is financing 30% of the project, while the remainder will be funded by a wide array of investors and through a stock-buying scheme.

The entrepreneur says the IT hub has already attracted several partners, including Microsoft, with Microsoft corporate vice president Ali Faramawy among the guests at the Hope City launch event.

Agambire adds that the Hope City project also has the support of the Ghanaian government, as it aims to create create thousands of jobs and help turn technology into one of the country's main economic drivers.

"What we want to do is to create the environment and the human resource base for the technology industry to be able to use that [environment] and tap that opportunity," he says. "That's what has happened in China, that's what has happened in other places of the world."

Africa's highest tower

Hope City will be developed in an area of about 1.5 million square meters, located some 30 minutes west of Accra's city center.

Designed by Italian firm Architect OBR, the technopolis will be made up of six towers of different dimensions, including a 75-story, 270 meter-high building that is expected to be the highest in Africa. A system of bridges at different heights will link the towers together, creating a circular connection between the buildings' functions and public amenities.

OBR co-founder Paolo Brescia says the project's goal is to create a living place of discovery and exploration that reflects the tradition and culture of local people in a contemporary urban setting.

To achieve this, the architects designed Hope City with Ghana's traditional compound houses in mind. Originally made of mud brick walls and thatched roofs, compound structures have been a prevalent form of housing in the country for centuries, built to promote communal life and mutual assistance.

"We wanted to recreate, at a different scale, the same feeling of the compound house in a way that it could work as a compound cluster," explains Brescia.

"This place is designed to keep people together," he adds. "We developed this idea, not as a campus, where you have buildings which are dedicated to single functions, but as a city which is developed in a vertical way so that everything could be interconnected."

ICT revolution

The launch of Hope City comes just a few months after Kenya broke ground on its own flagship tech mega project; located some 60 kilometers southeast of the capital Nairobi, Konza Techno City is being touted as "Africa's Silicon Savannah," a major IT hub that aims to create some 100,000 jobs by 2030.

Kenya has already experienced a major IT boom in recent years, spurred in part by a surge in the number of innovation centers, such as Nairobi-based iHub, which enable young coders and aspiring entrepreneurs to collaborate, network and develop their trailblazing ideas.

Similar spaces have also mushroomed across Africa in recent years, from Egypt and Nigeria to Tanzania and Madagascar.

In Ghana, one such center is Accra-based Mobile Web Ghana, a vibrant tech space with more than 300 members. Florence Toffa, director of Mobile Web Ghana, welcomes the launch of Hope City.

"This city hopefully will bring the tech companies together and spark a new ICT revolution in Ghana," she says, adding that the project could equip local techies with the necessary skills to develop apps that would solve community problems, as well as provide a platform for tech companies to find new talent and opportunities to invest in.

For Agambire, this is a project that will position Ghana at the forefront of African technology.

"Africa is hungry for development," he says. "Want to make sure that in three years down the line, Hope City will be a reality and will be one of the biggest dreams that Africa has ever seen."


Konza Technology City in Kenya

Konza Technology City
http://www.konzacity.co.ke


Konza Techno City will be a sustainable, world-class technology hub and a major economic driver for the nation of Kenya with a vibrant mix of businesses, workers, residents, and urban amenities.   It is dubbed "where African silicon savannah begins".  The city will be located in the city of Konza in Kenya. It will be built in 5000 acres of land 64km south of Nairobi, Kenya.  The project is estimated to cost approximately $14.5 Billion Dollars US.  The official launch and groundbreaking ceremony of the project took place on the 23rd January 2013, headed by Kenyan president, Mwai Kibaki.  The Konza Technopolis will be a world class city powered by a thriving IT sector and generating 100,000 jobs by 2030.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konza_Technology_City

Entry plaza:
University campus:
Business district:
Technology and life science district:
Konza Techno City pavilion:



 Masterplan structure:





Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Extraterrestrial Calendars

* Extraterrestrial = any object outside of, or beyond (extra-) the planet Earth (terrestrial).
* Thus, the Sun and the Moon are Extraterrestrials by definition
* A Photon of Light which originates on the Sun and Travels to Earth is an Extraterrestrial which has come to Earth by definition
* If you reverence the Sun and/Moon, you reverence Extraterrestrials
* The Sun is the source of Life on Earth, so an Extraterrestrial is the Source of Life on Earth
* If the Sun is the source of Life on Earth, then why do we not consider the Sun to be alive?
* If the Sun is alive, then the Sun would be an example of Extraterrestrial Life
* A Day = 1 rotation of a Planet around its axis
* A Year = 1 rotation of a Planet around its sun/star
* A Month = 1 cycle of Lunar Phases of a Planet's Moon as seen from the Planet
* A Week is based more on Religious theology than Science
* If we lived on a Planet that did not have a Moon we would not have Months in our Calendar
* If we lived on a Planet that had 2 Moons, we would have twice as many months in our Calendar

Monday, May 6, 2013

Spiritual Science Part 2


-    Spirituality and Religion are good at instilling morals, ethics, and happiness in its practitioners but falls short in having the most accurate and correct information.
-    Science is good at having the most accurate, correct, and practical information but falls short in instilling morals, ethics, and happiness in its practitioners
-    The dichotomy creates 2 groups of people: A Spiritual/Religious group who are Happy and Moral People but have incorrect information (which some may call ignorant), and a Scientific group of people who Have Correct information (which some may call intelligent) but are miserable and lack morals
-    Science vs Spirituality/Religion is like "Miserably Intelligent" vs "Blissfully Ignorant"
-    The Allegory of the “Wise Serpent” and “Anansi the Spider – a deity of wisdom who also was a trickster”.  Why is it that some intelligent people choose to use their intelligence to beguile less intelligent people
-    If one of the Purposes of Religion/Spirituality is to put a person’s spirit at ease, ie make the person feel good, then that may explain why Truth is not explicitly given in religion, but rather the Truth is dressed up in mythology and allegory…because Truth hurts.  And if it is true that “Truth hurts”, then this may explain why people who prescribe to Scientific doctrines tend to be bitter…because they were explicitly told the truth
-    "The Invention of Lying" Movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1058017/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invention_of_Lying
-    In our traditional African culture, the Memphite Theology which is carved on the Shabaka Stone (which I call the Science of Sciences and the Science in Sciences) combined the best of the Spiritual world with the best of the Scientific world to create a “SPIRITUAL SCIENCE” which included the Morals, Ethics, and Happiness which is found in Religion and Spirituality with the correct, accurate, and practical information which is found in Science.

-    One of hallmarks of a “Religion” is that it creates a system of think by which you can predict a person’s response, actions, and thoughts.  Therefore, some of the non-formal religions which people prescribe to unknowingly are:
o    Conspiracy-ism
o    Racism
o    U.F.O.-ism
o    New Age Spritualism
o    Atheism/Science-ism
o    Pseudo-science-ism

-    Ebony Magazine says "African Americans May be Left Out of the 21st Century Job Market" due to a woeful under-representation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers which comes from instilling Religious/Spiritual values in African American households which do not value the importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics
http://www.ebony.com/career-finance/why-african-americans-may-be-left-out-of-the-21st-century-job-market-498#axzz2SYYNtiuc
-    The modern-day 'slave class' is anyone who cannot do math
http://www.naturalnews.com/040027_financial_slavery_money_investments.html
-    Considering the two articles mentioned above, it is imperative that Africans and people of African descent start combining our Spirituality with Science in order to be emancipated from the bondage of being in The modern-day 'slave class' in the 21st Century

-    Space exploration has been privatized http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_companies
-    Steven Hawking has stated that "Humans have less than 1,000 years left on Earth" or be faced with extinction
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1301482/Human-race-colonise-space-face-extinction-warns-Stephen-Hawking.html
-    Considering the two links above, it is imperative that Africans and people of African descent start combining our Spirituality with Science in order to be able to start creating privately owned Space exploration companies to survive any calamities which may come to planet Earth which would require leaving Earth and colonizing other planets in the coming years

-    Many Scientists such as Nikola Tesla and Edward Leedskalnin also studied Mythological, Occult, Metaphysical, and Spiritual Information which motivated and inspired their Scientific inventions

-    An African American Scientist named Ronald Mallett was motivated by Science Fiction and has invented a time machine where he has shown it is possible to send energy/information back in time from the future.  If this is true, then could it be that people in present day who seem to have ESP, premonitions, or psychic abilities are actual receiving information being sent to them back through time from an Information Time Machine in the future?

-    “True Wisdom is not just thinking outside the box, true wisdom is being able to move in and out of various boxes and create new boxes at will”