Dull Botswana Innovation Hub is business as usual hub

BIH headquarters
BIH headquarters

If the Botswana Innovation Hub (BIH) needs an appropriate name that suits its level of incompetence, here it is: Business as Usual Hub (BAUH).

“Innovative” suggests that this is a visionary organisation overflowing with not just innovative operations and processes but innovative ideas as well. That is far from being the case. An innovative organisation would have had water-tight procurement processes such that the screw-up with the construction of the BIH building in Block 8 that was revealed in the media last year would have been averted.

A telephone call placed to an innovative organisation would be answered on the second ring and not ring answered until the caller (me) gives up in frustration. An innovative organisation would have a website that not only wows you but is user-friendly as well.

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