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Links to Documents of Interest

Contains a number of selected documents of interest on science and technology, including speeches.

Policy Evaluation in Innovation and Technology: Towards Best Practices

Policy Evaluation in Innovation and Technology: Towards Best Practices OECD Science Technology and Industry report that brings together presentations by a range of international researchers and policy makers at an OECD Conference held on 26-27 June 1997.
http://www.oecd.org/dsti/sti/stat-ana/prod/evaluation.htm

Debt Relief for Science and Technology

Debt Relief for Science and Technology:  Proposal and guidelines for stakeholders UNESCO -- This paper explores ways by which science and technology may benefit from debt relief efforts in the context of the poorest countries in the world.  It begins with an overview of current thinking about economic development and the recent initiative led by the World Bank and the IMF but subscribed to by bilateral donors, the private sector and many NGOs.
http://www.unesco.org/pao/



Globalisation of Industrial R&D Policy Issues

Globalisation of Industrial R&D Policy Issues, Online free publication of the Directorate of Science Technology and Industry
http://www.oecd.org/dsti/sti/



Mondilisation De La R-D Industrielle

Mondilisation De La R-D Industrielle: Questions de Politique, Organisation de Cooperation et de Developpement Economiques, 1999
http://www.oecd.org/dsti/sti/


The Global Research Village:  How Information and Communication Technologies Affect the Science System


The Global Research Village:  How Information and Communication Technologies Affect the Science System:  this study was undertaken as a contribution to OECD's Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 1998, published in July 1998.
Info 21 Resources
http://www.undp.org/info21/resource/r-main.html



The Networking Revolution:  Opportunities and Challenges for Developing Countries

The Networking Revolution:  Opportunities and Challenges for Developing Countries infoDev Working Paper, Information and Communication Technologies Department the World Bank Group, June 2000
http://www.infodev.org/library/working.htm



Biotechnology Policy for Developing Country Agriculture

Biotechnology Policy for Developing Country Agriculture by Carliene Brenner OECD Development Centre, Policy Brief No. 14
http://www.oecd.org/dev/



Information Technology Outlook

Information Technology Outlook is an OECD's report, describing the rapid growth in the supply and demand for information technology goods and services and their role in the expanding Internet economy and looks at emerging uses of information technology
http://www.oecd.org/dsti/sti/it/prod/it-out2000-e.htm



Intellectual Property Protection and Traditional Knowledge

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION AND TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE An Exploration in International Policy Discourse Dr. John Mugabe Executive Director Paper Prepared for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, Switzerland December 1998
http://www.acts.or.ke/papers.htm


Plant biotechnology

Plant biotechnology:  a tool for development in Africa Electronic Journal of Biotechnology ISSN 0717-3458 by Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso -- Chille Volume 1 No 3 Issue, December 1998
http://www.ejb.org/content/vol1/issue3/index.html



Science, Technology and Economic Growth: Africa's Biopolicy Agenda in the 21st Century

Juma, Calestous. "Science, Technology and Economic Growth: Africa's Biopolicy Agenda in the 21st Century." UNU/INRA Annual Lectures on Natural Resource Conservation and Management in Africa, edited by J. J. Baidu-Forson. Presented November 1999, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. United Nations University/Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU/INRA), Ghana, 2000.
http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/BCSIA/Library.nsf/pubs/juma_biopolicy



Supporting Women's Use of Information Technologies for Sustainable Development


Supporting Women's Use of Information Technologies for Sustainable Development Submitted to the Gender and Sustainable Development Unit, IDRC 18 February 1997 Prepared by Sophia Huyer Women in Global Science and Technology (WIGSAT)
http://www.idrc.ca/acacia/outputs/womenicts.html

Introduction to the Global System for Sustainable Development Consortium Reducing The Global Knowledge Gap

Introduction to the Global System for Sustainable Development Consortium Reducing The Global Knowledge Gap --  Prepared for UNFCCC - COP/4 November 1998, GSSD Event, a dynamic, knowledge-based meta-networking system for supporting decision and policy, and representing stakeholder expression and interest. Updated regularly, the GSSD knowledge base consists of Internet holdings for over 200 institutions.
http://web.mit.edu/gssd/consortium/index.html

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