Science is seen as a comparative advantage across nations. The importance of science and technology is greater now than ever before Emeka Okoye is a semantic web architect and knowledge engineer. He founded Cymantiks Limited, a company that makes organizations, governments and machines smarter using semantics technologies and cognitive computing to provide innovative customizable solutions that creates value from data to achieve their set objectives. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx