By Kenneth Nwabudike Okafor
I hope you are making out time to join with us to
promote CREATIVITY and INNOVATION and make CREATIVITY and INNOVATION more
popular than gossip and scandal.
A lot is happening, and just in case your end is out of the loop, we would share with you from other zones with great verve and
dynamism.
Do you remember the Yoruba aphorism about the size
of someone’s father’s farm; yes, I can remind all of us.
A Yoruba adage says some people stand in their own
neck of the woods and consider that their father’s farm must be the biggest in
the world. This proverb makes allusion to limited vision; you may stay in your
own corner and think all that is happening there is all that can be.
But NAIJAGRAPHITTI Blog is calling to you to
RELOCATE – mentally that is, to another world where your father’s farm may
become smaller in size as you gain illuminating perspective.
Remember this charge: RE-CREATE YOUR ENVIRONMENT
AND ENLARGE YOUR COAST. Yes, you can!
When the blog first started out, we could not
believe we could be bursting with several exciting and collectively enriching
posts to share with readers. Of course, CREATIVITY and INNOVATION are both huge
topical areas of global interest at this time, and, not so surprising, rather
unfamiliar concepts in real terms in Nigeria.
Sure people use the buzz words and the catch
phrases but when it comes down to the nitty gritty, you discover people are not
as familiar with the right knacks as far as CREATIVITY and INNOVATION are
concerned. Then, again, was this not what we had set out to change with this
blog?
We imagined how can we sustain the momentum and
keep up the pace as things evolved. Then, how do we fund the whole project. We
are delightfully surprised at what is happening. We do not trivialize serious
subjects on this blog; as you have guessed CREATIVITY and INNOVATION is serious
business.
Aside, we also wondered who we could to read and
how do we get them to read a blog on CREATIVITY and INNOVATION which actually
as subjects for learning could tedious and technical, at least until the
product emerges. Is that not the case with the pregnant woman, before the child
comes forth? An iPhone 6+ is remarkable to use; but did you consider the long
long years of research, many moments of missteps and disappointments before a
handy piece hits that Apple store near you?
I was interacting with a group of people and they
were curious about my book EXPLODING POTENTIAL: Exploiting the Fullness of
Your Creative Potential. I told them I had worked on it for six years
before the first print run. Now with further research and many fresh
experiences garnered over the last seven years, I am preparing for the revised
edition.
Our greatest joy is YOU – THE READERS. Whenever we
watch those pageviews numbers swell, no other feeling in the world matches it
as far as we are concerned. Of course, there were some times of stress, when
you have been working almost fifteen hours at a stretch and you would not even
get one reader.
All of a sudden, God gave a clear idea and we
grasped it. And people who we did not know have surged and taking over reading
the blog. In due course, we would mention every single person and group EVEN IF
YOU EVER BECOME UNCOUNTABLE.
It is a truly humbling experience.
NOW FOR THE BIG NEWS
NAIJAGRAPHITTI is getting ready to launch the full
scale CREATIVITY and INNOVATION school LIVE. We would be dealing with the
context and challenges of CREATIVITY and INNOVATION in Nigeria; then we would
also share lessons which would help us make learning creativity. SO WATCH OUT
IN THE COMING DAYS!
For emphasis I am posting this with the CREATIVITY
AND INNOVATION SCHOOL POST masthead.
We have published just one post with this masthead
before as we started to lay the background and context to the issues we would
share lessons and stories about. SEE HERE
KEEP A DATE WITH THESE POSTS.
One of the targets of this blog is to promote the
culture of enabling creativity and innovation in all spheres of national life.
NAIJAGRAPHITTI BLOG is partly about: empowering
individual with lessons sharing, information and motivation to develop their
ideas and to turn a moment into an opportunity for financial freedom while
adding value to Nigeria as a whole.
It is not magic; it is not a get-rich-quick scheme.
In terms of personal financial security, you could
become creative and make one invention that would free you from financial
worries for the rest of your working life. It is possible.
How can being inventive, creative and innovative
lead to financial freedom? I am sure you can fill several notes with catalogues
of examples.
Let me re-echo this message clearly here.
The conviction that powers NAIJAGRAPHITTI BLOG is
that the possibility of exploiting the concepts of CREATIVITY and INNOVATION to
create wealth and maximize our potentials and add value to Nigeria as a nation
is a phenomenon which time has come. Of this I am deeply convicted; this is the
season for creating and enabling a culture of CREATIVITY and INNOVATION indeed,
not mere posturing, in Nigeria.
To create real and sustainable wealth, we must tap
into individual creativity and creative potential as other countries and
civilizations have done. Actually we have run out of options; people have tried
the professions, politics, vocations and even crime. The results have been the
same diminished productivity as long as the concepts of CREATIVITY and
INNOVATION are excluded.
Firstly, Nigeria would turn a corner, as all our
performance indices would improve: the link between creativity and innovation
in economic development is well documented (and we have published some on this
blog). Secondly, the quality of our leadership would improve (creative
thinking and problem-solving proficiencies make for more effectual and
qualitative leadership).
NAIJAGRAPHITTI BLOG has identified there are a
whole lot of opportunities with the creative Industries and creative economy
with the add-ons of intellectual property rights, patents as well as
formulating effective national systems of innovation which Nigeria like most
developing countries have as yet to tap fully into to build the economy and the
country’s intrinsic value.
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| Markus "Notch" Persson - inventor of Minecraft |
Let me round off this post
with the story of Markus "Notch" Persson, the Swedish programmer
who invented a game Minecraft that
became a cultural phenomenon and one of Sweden’s most famous exports. Persson launched the computer game in 2009,
in which players can build an entire world using retro-looking blocks.
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Hugely
successful: Markus Persson launched the hit computer game
Minecraft in 2009, in which players can build an entire world using
retro-looking blocks
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The encyclopaedia describes Minecraft as
"is a sandbox independent video game originally created by Swedish
programmer Markus "Notch" Persson and later developed and published
by the Swedish company Mojang. The creative and building aspects of Minecraft
enable players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D
procedurally generated world. Other activities in the game include exploration,
resource gathering, crafting, and combat. Multiple gameplay modes are
available, including survival modes where the player must acquire resources to
build the world and maintain health, a creative mode where players have
unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly, and an adventure mode
where players play custom maps created by other players. The PC version of the
game is renowned for its third-party mods, which add various new items,
characters and quests to the game.
On September 15, 2014, Microsoft announced a deal
to buy Mojang and the ownership of the Minecraft Intellectual Property
for £1.5billion; the acquisition was completed on November 6, 2014."
No single product or invention in Nigeria outside
the extractive industry has earned this level of income.
Once the deal was concluded, Forbes Magazine
declared that Markus "Notch" Persson became a billionaire; he made a
personal profit of £1billion. And whether video gaming is your thing or not you
have to respect the results.
Again, as we say, in-house – this is not magic and
it is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Just put your mind and ideas to work, that’s
all.
WATCH OUT THE CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION SCHOOL
POSTS.
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