ocio-economic development - Grina Technologies

The principals of Grina Technologies have been involved in social and business issues for a life time. We offer the Renaissance Experience. While the classical meaning relates to the humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe; we modernize the term to mean in-depth knowledge in every aspect of life including but not limited to neuro-economics, system dynamics, artificial intelligence, health science, information technology, social science, behavioral science, rocket science, architecture, engineering, transportation and supply chain logistics and everything in between.

Grina Technologies is involved in various stages with different countries to bring sustainable socio-economic development to developing countries. Some of the activities are listed below. Since it is a requirement that we also bring in product and services from the developed countries, they are also listed here. The interaction benefits both sides as it also provides jobs to the first world countries. It is a multi-way symbiotic relationship that benefits all parties. Those who are not listed here either are not interested to participate to improve their economy or we have not contacted them. This page will be updated frequently, so please feel free to visit often. We are well networked with a large number of businesses and governments all across the globe.

Our socioeconomic design is based on a test case during the early 80s in the Peoples Republic of China. Because the ideas presented to the Chinese still works and propelled China to the economic miracle seen today, we think this would work for any country. We have also added a social and technology component to those ideas for even faster growth.

It is our observation that developing countries have difficulty collecting knowledge that is developed by others and already available. There is a tendency for them to reinvent the wheel. At the same time, no business will provide that knowledge free without due compensation for time and effort. Within that just exchange there are sophisticated charlatans who take the gullible for a ride. Even highly reputable organizations end up offering bogus solutions for unknown reasons. We know one very reputable and very large university that have been providing advisory to several African countries for the last 30 years with minimal or negative result.

It is also our observation that developing countries do not receive proper help from developed countries like America. That is because our chamber of commerce are always skeptical of receiving any reciprocal benefit from the developing countries. To be blunt, if a poor country can not buy 20 large Boeing jets, we are not interested in dealing with them. This is a pure business sense rather than any prejudice on the part of the rich country. Even WorldBank and IMF have caused untold misery to poor countries without meaning to. That is because, they do not understand the complex dynamics of the World.

The same lack of understanding of the System Dynamics, also creates problems in developed countries. In America, the world saw how poorly we managed the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Rita disaster even though we should have been prepared after 9/11/2001 terrorism incident. On the economic side, America spends billions of dollars in promoting trade and business through various organizations such as the Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, various chamber of commerce in almost every city, country and state, and many other related organizations. When we asked for help in promoting economic development to developing countries, no one was interested, even though that very process would help American companies to export more product and services. Luckily, we have worked directly with private companies in the past and hence were able to contact them to get involved in new projects.

Because America is outsourcing most of its products and services, there is room for rapid growth in developing countries. However, this window of opportunity will not last very long. As America continues its trade deficit at $2 Billion per day, in a few years, there will not be any jobs left for Americans to earn enough money to buy imported products. Like feeding a cow to get milk, if a poor country wants to be rich, the best way to do so, is to engage with America (and UK, Germany etc.). To engage with America, do not expect any help from the government or the Chambers. The only way is through private companies like us and our partners that understand the complex Business Dynamics and International Operations.

In case of the socio-economic development of a country, more often than not, outside experts who provide so called valuable service do not understand the following parameters:

Culture and the People (Social) aspect variables.
System Dynamics and time-domain analysis.
Neuro-economics model.
Complexity Science.
Variables that provide different weights than the experts experience.
Outside environment and its influence on future internal processes.
Information flow and its quality.
Human decision making process both internal and external – the “now” model.
Human decision making process both internal and external – the “dynamic” model.
Information utilization efficiency and nodal/inter-nodal properties.
Agility and domain instability.
Advanced Reasoning Agent Based Technology.
Long term effects of short term benefits.
Hidden agendas as Trojans.
Non-linear aspect of events and progress or lack of progress.
Separation of classes between Rich and Poor.
...And the list goes on.

UPDATE: We will use USA services to enhance our activities in Africa.