CSTI Science and Culture Odsomo Series: Educating for the Human Predicament
Channel: Centre for Science and Technology Innovations
Date: 2021-09-20

Our bi-monthly webinar series is in collaboration with Stanford University's Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB, pronounced "mob).   Geoversity is an online community (human ecosystem) for biocultural learning. Odsomo is a term from the Dholuo language which is multifaceted in meaning. Ot (singular) or Od (possessive pronoun) is a building. Somo is a place for learning that is understood to be a repository of knowledge. 

Our webinars are not limited to the Dholou culture. We aim to showcase the diversity of African countries and cultures from the perspective of how culture and geospecific ecosystems affect the way in which science and technology innovation emerges.

For this inaugural webinar, we examine the ways in which educational systems should adapt towards creating a better understand of the ways in which human activities have a negative impact on the health of human systems and ecological systems. By understand what is going wrong, we can transform human activities towards new models that enable strong industrialization and economic growth along with strong ecosystem biodiversity and positive health outcomes.

Links:
CSTI Science and Culture Odsomo Webinar series 
https://www.csti.or.ke/geoversity-odsomo

Blog Post
https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/biocapacity-measurement-in-africa-using-natural-resources-accounting-and-socially-embedded-eco-industry/

Stanford University MAHB
https://mahb.stanford.edu/

Geoversity
https://geoversity.org/

UNESCO General History of Africa
https://en.unesco.org/general-history-africa

Harvard University Languages of Africa
https://alp.fas.harvard.edu/introduction-african-languages