Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend the 3rd Annual General Meeting of the Malaysian Association of Creativity and Innovation (MACRI) at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.
Before we began our AGM at 11.40am, Y.Bhg. Dato’ Ghazi Sheikh Ramli, Founder/President and Innovation Evangelist, gave a talk on the Democratisation of Innovation. In the short 45 minutes talk, Y.Bhg. Dato’ President shared his experience at the Ideas Festival in Brisbane, Australia on March 28th, 2009. One message, or rather 2 misconceptions, which is inherent in YBhg’s talk are:-
- The false idea that creativity is the domain of the artistes and artists, carvers and sculptors, musicians and writers, directors and actors etc.
- The second false idea is that only scientists, inventors, ‘smart’ people have excusive access to being innovative.
- The reality is creativity and innovation are traits inherent to every human being that is given life to exist on the surface of our planet Earth.
One challenge which Dato’ threw at the end of his talk involves the Bamboo Agenda: What can we make out of bamboo? What do we want bamboo to be? How do we create a Planet Bamboo? This challenge was thrown especially to members of MACRI.
After the AGM, I took the liberty of visiting the National Intellectual Property Exhibition 2009 at the ground level of the KLCC. MACRI was given the opportunity to open up a booth for the second – or was it the third year – running. :-p
At the expo, yours truly got to satisfy his cravings for the Dabai… a fruit indigenous to the State of Sarawak! Besides the pickled dabai, there was also a keropok dabai, a dabai pizza (yum!!!!). :-D I so miss home…
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