Major Recent Reports About Science, Technology and Development

There are a number of reports that have been issued recently about Science, Technology and Development. While there have been many reports on agricultural, environmental, health and information and communications science and technology, I am focusing on those reports which are cross-sectoral. Here is my list of the most important of those:

Science and Technology for Sustainable Development: A G8 Action Plan
G8 Meeting, Evian (France), 2003.

Innovation: Applying Science and Technology to Development
UN Millennium Project Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation, 2005
This report is also to be found on the Harvard website.

Interim Report of Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation
UN Millennium Project Task force on Science, Technology and Innovation, 2004.

Inventing a Better Future: A Strategy for Building Worldwide Capacities in Science and Technology
InterAcademy Council, 2004.

The Use of Science in UK International Development Policy UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, 2004.

Science, Technology and Innovation for the 21st Century
Meeting of the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy at Ministerial Level, 2004. (Note Appendix 2, "Declaration On International Science And Technology Co-Operation For Sustainable Development".)

Knowledge for Development
World Bank, World Development Report, 1998/99

Strategic approaches to science and technology in development
The World Bank, 2003.

Constructing Knowledge Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education
The World Bank, 2002.

Human Development Report 2001: Making new technologies work for human development
UNDP, 2001.

World Employment Report, 2001: Life at Work in the Information Economy
ILO, 2001.

Building Science Capacity: A TWAS Perspective
Third World Academy of Science, 2004.

Science Education and Capacity Building for Sustainable Development
ICSU, 2002.

Foresight Analysis
ICSU Committee on Strategic Planning and Review, 2004.

Priority Area Assessment (PAA) on Data and Information
ICSU Committee on Strategic Planning and Review, 2004.

Priority Area Assessment (PAA) on Environment
ICSU Committee on Strategic Planning and Review, 2004.

PCAST Report on Sustainable Development
President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, 1997.

Science and Technology Collaboration: Building Capacity in Developing Countries
RAND, 2001.

Proceedings of the World Conference on Science
UNESCO, 2000.

Harnessing Science to Society: a report on the first 30 months of follow-up
UNESCO, 2002.

World Science Report, 1998
UNESCO, 1998.

Closing the Gap
InterAmerican Development Bank, 1997.

Toward a More Effective Role for the U.S. Government in International Science and Engineering
Report of the National Science Board, 2002.

Toward a More Effective NSF Role in International Science and Engineering
Report of the National Science Board, 2001.


Note also these conferences:

Building S&T Capacity with African Partners
Conference brought together African, British and Canadian policy-makers, researchers and research users to discuss how to collaborate more effectively in building science and technology capacity in Africa. SciDev.Net, 2005.

Future Direction of National Innovation and Science Policy Reviews
SciDev.Net: IDRC-UNESCO Workshop, 2003.

Technology and Poverty Reduction in Asia and the Pacific
Asian Development Bank, 2002.

Science, Technology And Innovation For The 21st Century
Meeting of the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy (CSTP) at Ministerial Level, Paris, 29-30 January 2004

First Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Science and Technology within the Framework of CIDI
Organization of American States, 2004.

The Role of Science in the Information Society
Preliminary meeting to the World Summit on the Information Society, 2003.


Here are a some important sources of S&T data, not specific to developing nations.

Science and Engineering Indicators, 2004
National Science Foundation, 2004.

OECD Science, Technology and Industry (STI) Outlook 2004
OECD, 2004.

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2003
OECD, 2003.