This fact sheet produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics provides a good summary of the global situation of science, focusing on human resources and financing of research and development. October 2007.
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ICT Update is a bimonthly printed bulletin, web magazine, and accompanying email newsletter focusing on the use of information and communication technologies in agriculture in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. It is published in English and French, by CTA (Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation) in Wageningen in the Netherlands.
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'En reunión que tuvo lugar en Bogotá la semana pasada (12 y 13 de agosto) Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Perú y Venezuela crearon oficialmente una Red de Centros de Innovación Tecnológica, para apoyar su desarrollo y lograr la competitividad de la región. 'El trabajo programático estuvo centrado en mejorar la comprensión de los procesos y sistemas de innovación de los países en desarrollo', dijo a SciDev.Net Eduardo Salas Mejía, gerente de la Red Colombiana de Centros de Subcontratación more...
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A new book titled 'The New Invisible College' points out that not only is the global level of scientific activity increasing, but international collaboration is increasing as a portion of that activity. International networks of scientists are self organizing. These trends require new thinking about the governance of science, especially of international science. This blog posting addresses the role of UNESCO in the institutionalization of new governance mechanisms for international science. John more...
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'New poverty estimates published by the World Bank reveal that 1.4 billion people in the developing world (one in four) were living on less than US$1.25 a day in 2005, down from 1.9 billion (one in two) in 1981. The new numbers show that poverty has been more widespread across the developing world over the past 25 years than previously estimated, but also that there has been strong—if regionally uneven—progress toward reducing overall poverty.' by Ravallion and Chen, The World Bank, 2008.
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'Are you happy? provides a thumbnail guide to the history of new economics and the current work of the new economics foundation. It asks the biggest question facing humanity - do good lives have to cost the earth? - and finds that the answer lies in a new type of economics, economics as if people and the planet mattered.'
This is a New Economics Foundation's (nef's) paper, published in November 2006. PDF format, 31 pp. In English
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'In an age of climate change, when it is more important than ever that we use our resources efficiently, the European Happy planet Index reveals that Europe as a whole is less carbon efficient at delivering human well-being in terms of relatively happy, long lives to its citizens than it was over 40 years ago.
To reverse this trend, we need to look to the example of those European countries that are already the most efficient - some of the most socially progressive and technologically advance more...
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