Posts from August 2009

Inter Academy Council Report: Inventing a Better Future

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‘Inventing a Better Future: A strategy for building worldwide capacities in science and technology’, a report by the Inter Academy Council “proposes new initiatives to strengthen national scientific capabilities worldwide, to foster opportunities for cooperation among the world’s scientific and technological communities, against the backdrop of rapid globalization and a rapidly increasing disparity in scientific and technological capacities and development.” (UN website)

OAS: Science, Technology, Engineering and Innovation for Development

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Science, Technology, Engineering and Innovation for Development: A Vision for the Americas in the 21st Century. 2nd Edition. Organization of American States, Executive Secretariat for Integral Development, Office of Education, Science and Technology.
The report seeks “to help the member states in the formulation of their national development policies and strategies, with emphasis on capacity building for creating decent work, fighting poverty and strengthening democratic governance.” (OAS, 2005:10)

Knowledge and Innovation for Development

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‘Knowledge and Innovation for Development: The Sisyphus Challenge of the 21st Century’, by Francisco Sagasti.

World Summit on Sustainable Development

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The World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg in August 2002, addressed emerging and critical issues for the future, reflecting a global shift in emphasis since 1992, from environmental concerns to the more holistic approach of sustainable development focusing on the interrelationships of environment, society, and economy.

UN Advisory Committee on the Application of Science and Technology to Development (UNACASTD)

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UN Advisory Committee on the Application of Science and Technology to Development (UNACASTD) established, and proposes a ‘World Plan of Action for the Application of Science and Technology for Development’.

UNESCO Regional Centres for Science and Technology

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UNESCO establishes an institutional framework of ‘Regional Centres for Science and Technology’, converting its Science Cooperation Offices for Arab States (Cairo), for Asia (New Delhi), and Southeast Asia (Djakarta) into Regional Centers for Science and Technology to join the regional centre for Africa (Nairobi), and another planned for West Africa. Similarly, the Latin American Center for the Application of Science and Technology for Development was established in Sao Paulo, Brazil, by agreement of the Latin American states at a conference in Santiago 1965 (Katz, 1968: 413).