David Strangway - Angola's potential for developing technology and scientific knowledge

Dr. David Strangway is a member of Development Workshop’s international advisory board. Dr. Strangway’s father and mother came to Angola in 1927 and spent 40 years working in the fields of medicine, public health, nutrition and agricultural. Dr. Strangway grew up in Angola in the 1940s and 1950s. He shared the key-note address that he gave the previous week to Angola’s National Conference on Science and Technology which ran from September 11 to 13, 2013. This audio file is in English with translation provided in Portuguese.

Dr. Strangway discusses Angola’s potential for developing technology and scientific knowledge and also the challenges that the country faces due to its history and the problems resulting from the unequal distribution of wealth. He notes that Angola’s life expectancy today of 51.5 years is little different form when his family left Angola in 1967.

Dr. Strangway is a Canadian geophysicist and university administrator. During his career he has been awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his scientific contribution to NASA; the Logan Medal for his geological works, the highest honour the Geological Association of Canada bestows; the J. Tuzo Wilson Medal from the Canadian Geophysical Union; in 1996 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for being an "internationally respected as an outstanding scientist and senior academic administrator". Read more at davidstrangway.com and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Strangway.