{"id":273129,"date":"2011-01-08T01:54:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T01:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=45497"},"modified":"2011-01-08T01:54:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T01:54:41","slug":"ghana-cant-develop-without-technology-frimpong-boateng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/08\/ghana-cant-develop-without-technology-frimpong-boateng\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana can&#8217;t develop without technology &#8211; Frimpong-Boateng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chief Executive Officer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Prof  Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, has said that he finds it hard to believe that  Ghana is a middle-income country whiles intimating that the country  must invest more in the technology sector.<br \/>\nProf Frimpong-Boateng  said he found it hard to believe that Ghana had achieved that status  when there is wide-spread poverty in the country.<br \/>\nSpeaking on <strong>Joy Midday News<\/strong>,  Prof Frimpong-Boateng bemoaned the little investments being made in the  science and technology sector and said there is the need to invest  heavily in the sector in order to befit the middle-income status.<br \/>\n\u201cLook at the way we want to develop! Which country ever took the path that we are taking and developed?\u201d he asked rhetorically.<br \/>\n\u201cThe  poverty gap is technology gap. If we don\u2019t develop indigenous science  and technology and start doing things ourselves, we\u2019ll get nowhere\u201d he  said.<br \/>\nThrowing more light on the investment in that sector, he  said, \u201cOur research fund is just 0.05% of GDP\u201d stating that the  percentage was too little to aid in development.<br \/>\nHe fingered the  Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology as well as the  University for Mine Studies as being inefficient in the promotion of  technology in the country.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve had the University for Mines  Studies for more than 40 years, so what are we doing? We\u2019ve had the  University for Science and Technology for 50 years and so on [but] what  has been the output? What is wrong?\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe know what is  happening in the world, we know why we are poor, we know what should be  done and we still don\u2019t get it,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chief Executive Officer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Prof Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, has said that he finds it hard to believe that Ghana is a middle-income country whiles intimating that the country must invest more in the technology sector. 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