The UN Conference on ‘Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries (TCDC) in Buenos Aires, Argentina “reaffirmed the important role of technical cooperation among developing countries as an instrument for the promotion and implementation of economic cooperation among developing countries,” (G77 website) and arose as an effort to become more technically and financially self-reliant.
UN Conference on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries
IDRC, Science and Technology Policy Instruments Project
The Science and Technology Policy Instruments (STPI) project was an extensive research project organised by the International Development Research Centre on the implementation of science policy in developing countries. The STPI project studied the role of science and technology in economic development, particularly in the industrialization process, and looked at: mechanisms of policy formulation, decision making, and policy implementation; factors affecting technological change; and industrial administration.
Herrera ‘Modern and Traditional Technologies’
Herrera, A. (1975), ‘Modern and Traditional Technologies: An Approach to the Generation of Technologies Appropriate for Rural Areas’. Mimeo, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Sussex.
Sharing Traditional Technology Project UNU
This project, initially supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), later taken up by the United Nations University (UNU), tried to explore how formal science and technology and its associated institutions interact with farmers and other rural inhabitants who have innovated for centuries, albeit in a different way and without the same institutional mechanisms.
Participatory Approaches to Technology Development
Some of the earliest work on participatory approaches occurred in Bangladesh in an effort to learn from local development initiatives.
UN Declaration on the Use of S&T for Peace
UN Declaration on the Use of Scientific and Technological Progress in the Interests of Peace for the Benefit of Mankind.
‘Views of Science, Technology and Development’
This book includes a chapter on ‘Views from Developing Countries’ with contributions by Ashok Parthasarathi, Francisco Sagasti, Hyung-Sup Choi, and others; a chapter on ‘Views from Developed Countries’ including a copy of the draft Sussex Report for the UN Development Decade, and a chapter on ‘the Green Revolution’.
UN Declaration: New International Economic Order
UN Declaration for the Establishment of a New International Economic Order (NIEO)
The NIEO was a set of proposals put forward during the 1970s by developing countries through the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to promote greater equity in international economic cooperation by reforming the terms of trade, increasing development assistance, reducing developed-country tariffs, and other means.
UN Committee on Science and Technology for Development
During the early 1970s, ECOSOC established a Committee on Science and Technology for Development which provided a special political forum for the results of ACAST’s work within the United Nations and brought the discussion to a more political level.
UNCTAD Committee on Transfer of Technology
In 1974, the Trade and Development Board transformed the Group on Transfer of Technology into the Committee on Transfer of Technology (CTT). During the 1970s, the Committee focused on issues related to the transfer of technology, including terms and conditions for such transfer, reflecting a major preoccupation of developing countries with improving access to foreign technology and ways and means of acquiring it at fairer prices and on fairer conditions.