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The Commission on Science and Technology for Development held its
eighth session, 23-27 May 2005.
The Commission, at its seventh session in May 2004, selected as the substantive theme for its inter-sessional period
2004-2005 "Science and technology promotion, advice and application for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals". In undertaking this theme, the Commission held a
panel meeting to study the following three sub-themes:
- the mutual interaction and dependency of science and technology education with R&D;
- infrastructure building as a foundation for scientific and technological development; and,
- promoting gainful employment in general and enterprise development in particular through the use of existing and emerging technologies, especially information and communication technologies (ICTs) and biotechnologies.
The findings and recommendations that had emerged from this panel was considered by the Commission at its
eighth session. The outcome of the deliberations will be submitted to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
The Commission also reviewed progress made on decisions taken at its
seventh regular session in May 2004.
Resource persons for the 8th session included Nobel Laureates Professor Richard Ernst (Switzerland)
and Prof. Jerome Karle (US); Professor Atta-ur-Rahman, Federal
Minister and Chairman of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan;
Hon. Motsoahae Thabane, Minister of Communication, Science and
Technology of Lesotho; Professor Gordon Conway, Chief Scientific
Advisor to the DFID; Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman and CEO of TAGO; Mr. Bruno Lanvin, Senior Advisor at the World Bank, and Dr. John Mugabe, science advisor to NEPAD,
and Professor Sanjaya Lall, Oxford University.
For further information, please contact:
Mr. Mongi Hamdi, Chief,
Science and Technology,
Policies and Capacity-building Branch,
Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development
UNCTAD
Tel: 41-22-917-5069
Email: mongi.hamdi@unctad.org
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