Dear Editor,
Presently, South Korea is being led by a woman of action, Park Guen Hye, who intends to transform Korea into an oasis for innovation. She has even met with the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and, unlike her counterparts, she is not afraid to tackle excessive government regulations.
For example, her Administration will reduce the total regulations on business activities to 80 per cent of the current level by 2016, thus resulting in the elimination of 2,200 regulations and a reduction in the total from 15,269 to 13,069.
Her activities remind me of some of our leaders; the only difference is that she seems to have more foresight. Sensible onlookers cannot understand why we are promoting venture capitalism and start-ups, yet no conferences are being organised in Silicon Valley.
Latin America's start-up scene is very young, so it would make sense to learn from countries like America and Finland with more experience, but maybe the inferiority complex of our policymakers prevents them from learning from the West. The reality is that countries like China are relatively new to the present innovation scene, so it is in the best interest of Jamaica to learn from places like Germany and Switzerland, our economic relations should be based on pragmatism and not ideology, we shouldn't be forming relationships with countries, just because we share similar politics.
Lipton Matthews
lo_matthew@yahoo.com
Ja has much to learn
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Presently, South Korea is being led by a woman of action, Park Guen Hye, who intends to transform Korea into an oasis for innovation. She has even met with the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and, unlike her counterparts, she is not afraid to tackle excessive government regulations.
For example, her Administration will reduce the total regulations on business activities to 80 per cent of the current level by 2016, thus resulting in the elimination of 2,200 regulations and a reduction in the total from 15,269 to 13,069.
Her activities remind me of some of our leaders; the only difference is that she seems to have more foresight. Sensible onlookers cannot understand why we are promoting venture capitalism and start-ups, yet no conferences are being organised in Silicon Valley.
Latin America's start-up scene is very young, so it would make sense to learn from countries like America and Finland with more experience, but maybe the inferiority complex of our policymakers prevents them from learning from the West. The reality is that countries like China are relatively new to the present innovation scene, so it is in the best interest of Jamaica to learn from places like Germany and Switzerland, our economic relations should be based on pragmatism and not ideology, we shouldn't be forming relationships with countries, just because we share similar politics.
Lipton Matthews
lo_matthew@yahoo.com
Ja has much to learn
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