So I'll turn it into a question: What can we do? We could have internships for students, including MBA students, who would love to spend a summer internship in Africa trying to help companies build. But they're also prepared. They aren't just going in there unprepared. In addition to that, Global e-Training, which is a company that's run by two of my former students, has online training programs in many different trades, programs that are available all over the world, and they would like to do that.
Again, the pieces are there: we just have to find a way to sew the pieces together.
Finally, one of my faculty colleagues, Joe Arvai, has done behavioural decision-making in Africa. What he found was that many people don't understand the choices they have. They have to be able to understand the choices for water and for schools and other choices, including the government. He is a Stanford fellow whose office is right next to mine at the Haskayne School of Business.
So again, we have Canadian resources that are in place and ready to go, and the government could then provide some additional sewing to get these pieces to go together.