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The Commission on Science and Technology for Development held a panel on "Science and technology promotion, advice and application for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals", 27-29 October 2004 in Vienna, Austria. Panelists
included members of the CSTD, and other United Nations agencies.
This panel placed specific emphasis on the following three areas: 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.
Resource persons included Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman, Federal Minister
for Science and Technology of Pakistan, Mr Derek Hanekom, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology
of South Africa, and Dr. Bruno Lanvin, Senior Advisor, E-Strategies, the World Bank.
The findings and recommendations that emerged from this panel will be considered by the Commission at its
eighth session in May 2005.
For further information, please contact:
Mr. Mongi Hamdi, Chief,
Science and Technology Section,
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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