"Botswana’s youth are embracing technology, breaking barriers, and creating innovative solutions across various sectors, from agribusiness and tourism to creative industries and entrepreneurship."

"We also look at ways to address the challenge of youth unemployment by utilizing resources to develop programs targeting young people, providing them with entrepreneurship skills and artisanal training. In the context of policy advisory, we produce knowledge products like foresight research to anticipate future job demands and those that will be phased out of the industry."

"Archaeology. The future of the future lies in the past."

"Others describe me as… Discerning. I describe myself as… Inquisitive."

"Read widely across all disciplines."

"The HRDC was conceptualized almost 20 years ago to address challenges emerging in the management of the higher education sector in Botswana. At the time, Botswana had one national university, the University of Botswana, but there was a shift in the education ecosystem with new private service providers entering. It became clear that one university would not meet all the needs in terms of intake and access."

""Libraries will remain critical in this journey to the milestone years of 2030 and 2063”"

""The library gave us little orange cards assuring that we were diligent members,”"

"“They are new spaces” that will help us actualize “our desire to learn, to be creative, and to share.”"

"“Libraries have come a long way from the village community hub centered on the baobab tree and the European-style buildings of colonialism,”"

"Most as a student of the African past. The future was always in my immediate thoughts in seeking to explain the meaning of the past."

"Evidence based research to inform policy development. African unity and integration. A common and shared future of Africa’s development potential realised in my lifetime."

"The government developed a second university, the Botswana University of Science and Technology, but with new private players, issues of quality assurance, employability, and access arose. The government, through what was then the Tertiary Education Act and the Vocational Training Act created the Tertiary Education Council and the Botswana Training Authority to oversee quality assurance and ensure a resource base for education and training."

"“High illiteracy rates throughout the continent especially affect the prospects for girls and women.”"

"“To build a South Africa that many of us truly believe we deserve.”"

"“Driving our economy through knowledge will replace our dependence on a mineral-driven endowment”"

"All global think tanks, scholars, village elders, children and all resources of learning. There is no privileged source all are equally important."

"Alioune Sall – the first “futures studies” expert I met. Nelson Mandela - who gave his life and time to South Africa’s liberation in a selfless way. They keep me in constant reflection about destiny and legacy and to know the two are not accidental."

"Leadership – Until the fear factor and the legacy facto becomes the informing principle for our leaders then the future will always be a “foreign country” Leaders must think beyond their term in office and of the people who entrust them with their livelihoods."

"Know your history, have good command of language(s) and remain open to new ideas. Be in constant quest for knowledge. The art of futures thinking is as important as the science of it."

"Partnerships Are Needed To Support Botswana’s Young Innovators."

"I’m extremely excited and confident because, like other African countries, Botswana has a very youthful population. The younger generation is less inhibited in their use of technology and are willing to take risks in experimental areas of their lives."

"There is need for greater global visibility and partnerships to support these young innovators."

"Innovation involves bringing together ideas, research, development, financing, and commercialization."

"The African shepherdess who navigates intricate paths, streams and crevasses on mountainsides is more knowledgeable of the future. What I can learn from her is that the streets as a fabrication of order ned constant maintenance. I cherish their view of the future which is that our common future is mediated by the ones above and below. We are mere custodians of this realm and should discharge our duties diligently."

"“Providing an escape”"

"The government has created safety nets and financial services to ensure young people have access to capital, such as the Chema Chema fund, similar to Kenya’s Hustler Fund. The focus is on small and medium enterprises, with agencies like the HRDC and the Local Enterprise Authority supporting young people in developing and scaling their businesses. Access to markets remains a challenge, but the government is exploring continental trading partnerships and attracting foreign direct investment."

"A transformative investment has been the digitalization of the education sector during and post-COVID, ensuring all young people have access to technology, including electrification and Wi-Fi in villages."

"While job losses have occurred in sectors like financial services due to automation, the HRDC works with other agencies to retool and reskill the human resource. Young people are diversifying into areas like agribusiness, food processing, artificial intelligence and drone technology for crop and wildlife management."

"The use of new technologies has also been beneficial in public health, with telemedicine enabling doctors in Botswana to work globally without moving, and in education, with online learning programs making education more accessible and inclusive."

"Innovation involves bringing together ideas, research, development, financing, and commercialisation. It looks good when it has a positive impact on people’s lives. In Botswana, which has been driven mainly by the diamond mining sector, innovation means ensuring that key value chain beneficiaries are the communities in and around where the resources come from, and that these technical solutions are sustainable and won’t bring negative impacts on the environment and livelihoods."

"It’s important that whatever innovation we are developing is done ethically and sustainably so that it can continue benefiting communities positively. This is especially critical when dealing with challenges like access to clean water and safe birth technologies, which can transform the lives of women and children."

"A deep rooted passion for the continent’s development agenda both past and present. The present is where I can feed my quest for knowledge."

"Botswana, Tanzania, Britain and South Africa – Tanzania and South Africa continue to inspire as the cradles of human kind and technological innovation."

"He who has not lived in the midst of a storm does not know the value of strength"

"Lesya Ukrainka set Ukrainian culture free from the image of provinciality imposed on it by discourse of the Russian Empire around the turn of the 20th century."

"Ні! Я жива! Я буду вічно жити! Я в серці маю те, що не вмирає."

"Ні, я хочу крізь сльози сміятись, Серед лиха співати пісні, Без надії таки сподіватись, Жити хочу! Геть, думи сумні!"

"“Being positive and always smiling makes a lot of difference. I’m in ICU now, nothing to worry this is kind of my second home now. I have fun here. I started smiling at every situation now especially the nurses who take care of me. Trust me it made a lot of difference. They do a tough job of treating pain and in I C U things r worse but by smiling and being jovial creates such a good atmosphere that everything just gets better, it’s magic… smile is magic…try it.”"

"No longer from Parliament with an easy mind, so we must be satisfied."

""If I say I actually like to be a house husband - I enjoy cooking, I'm good at managing maids, I like gardening, super super market shopping is my favourite, taking care of kids and getting them to school"

"There are a great many poor people who are very sick, and yet have no money to buy food, or clothes, or physic; and there are many more so ignorant that they never heard of the Bible, and think they do very right, when they roast and eat their enemies!"

"How wonderful are the ways of the Lord (God); how sweet his mercies, how terrible his judgements!"

"My first dialogue "Ammava member villikunu" .... here Umar uncle was ammavan and Nedumudi venu uncle was member..""

"“We should really do everything we can to contribute to the society and the country that we live in”"

"I should very much like to be a country gentleman. I would not have the best horses, or dogs, or farms, in the county; but I would exert myself to improve the people who were under my influence."

"The longer I live the more certain I am that the great difference between men, the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy and invincible determination – a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature a man without it."

"No man has a surplus of power: meaning by power— time, talents, money, influence."

"I shall speak as well as I can for usefulness, but not for fame."

"I am no politician."