THE Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in collaboration with universities in the country is developing a computer software for the teaching of sciences in the country's universities.
The move is to assist in the training of scientists required to propel the country into a middle level income country.
Already a series of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) have been signed with the Ashesi University and the Anglican University of Technology of Engineering for the development of the software for teaching physics.
The Director of the Institute of Industrial Research (IIR) of the CSIR, Dr Essel Ben Hagan, made this known at the launch of the institute’s five-year strategic plan document in Accra.
The main thrust of the document is the strategy to transfer research findings from the institute to industries for the country to become an industrial middle-income country by the year 2015.
He explained that the overall aspiration of the institute had been to assist in poverty reduction through the creation of opportunities for generating and increasing incomes of Small- Scale Enterprises (SMEs).
Dr Hagan said the institute had successfully completed studies on silk yarn production from cocoons for the weaving of kente clothes and bio sanitation toilets, the bi-products of which could be used for the production of fertilisers: mosquito repellant cream from sheabutter and citronella.
On information management, he said, the institute had entered into partnership with the private sector to develop a cyber city to design and repair Information and Communication Technology (ICT) equipment.
Under energy, Dr Hagan said the institute had developed a hybrid solar dryer, and that research was ongoing in the area of wind energy to complement hydro electric power generation.
The Deputy-Director-General of the CSIR, Dr Rose E. M. Entsuah-Mensah, said a sound strategic plan had served as a framework for decisions and had also provided a basis for more detailed planning.
She said it would also serve to explain the business to others in order to inform, motivate and involve all workers to stimulate change in the organisation.
Dr Entsuah-Mensah stressed that the CSIR and its 13 subsidiaries had a strategic role to play in defining the imperatives that would drive the private sector as it sought to develop relevant cutting -edge technologies and materials for local and international applications.
She commended the IIR for developing the strategic plan in areas such as manufacturing, environmental management, energy, technology and information management.
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