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Throughout the last twenty years, the new technologies and more especially micro electronics, micro computers, and telecommunications have developed and increased the gap between industrialized countries and the emerging countries located in Africa.
People living in the latter mentioned countries have demonstrated a perfect adaptation to imported mechanical devices due to their good know how and cleverness. On the contrary, importation of TV sets, cell phones, and personal computers has lead them to insolvable maintenance problems because the national education system favors theoretical knowledge to the prejudice of hands-on training.
The only solution in the absence of adequate maintenance, know-how, tools, components, or spare parts has been to increase importing of new goods from Asia. .
Thus, for example, these countries have had no other options for telecommunications than to invest in new technologies, no standard network being available. So they have taken up a very heavy financial load, completely out of proportion with their financial resources.
The idea was raised to create schools to train maintenance technicians so as to solve this problem. The Foundation obviously seemed to be the right institution to support financially and legally such a project. So we decided to take up the challenge.
Today the Foundation for Technical Education has been created, and we are ready to teach our know how to young people of these countries.
More than ten expert personalities featuring a large panel of competencies are involved in this project, and our funds are fully available.
Let me suggest that you assess our Foundation and the efficiency of our project: "Kilimanjaro International Institute for Telecommunication, Electronics and Computers" which follows this foreword.  F. J. BROCHON President |
