The struggles and successes in achieving acceptance of new, small-scale technologies in Ghana.
Ian Smilie has worked at Tufts and Tulane Universities and as a development consultant with many Canadian, American and European organizations. He served on a UN Security Council Expert Panel examining the relationship between diamonds and weapons in West Africa, and he helped develop the 48-government 'Kimberley Process, ' a global certification system to halt the traffic in conflict diamonds.
