by Lionel Yee Chairman, Vodafone ATH Fiji Foundation
Change is occurring, and it’s occurring at an exponential pace. The needs and expectations, opportunities, technology, and socioeconomic problems that exist today, some of it did not even exist 10 years ago.
It’s impossible for us to look ten years into the future and things that have yet to be created and new technologies that haven’t even been imagined. But a few years from now, problems will need to be solved - problems that we can’t even foresee. The tools that we have at our disposal to solve these problems will be different than the tools we have today.
A lot can change in a short period of time. Ten years ago, many of the things we use every day either were not available or weren’t commonly used. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and iPhones were either in their infancy or hadn’t been created. Concepts like the use of social media hadn’t taken shape yet.
But today things have changed. Opportunities are different and better. The changes we experience are presenting us opportunities. The change is requiring us to continually learn, evolve, and adapt to keep pace with all of the change that’s occurring around us.
Whether we like it or not, change is occurring, and it is inevitable. But rather than viewing change with trepidation, our challenge is to embrace change as an opportunity. An opportunity to evolve, an opportunity to improve ourselves, and an opportunity to improve the world around us.
We should be the source of change and improvement for the future.
For a growing country like Fiji, the only way we catapult progress is by embracing change in a speedy and productive manner.
