This article argues that although the Paris Declaration is an important step in establishing an international consensus on aid, its ability to make aid work in the long term is questionable without the availability of publically available, reliable, qualitative and quantitative information on civil society organisations (CSOs). This type of transparency and accountability it is argued will serve to increase democratic ownership and accountability as well as provide a useful tool for donors, gov more...
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The EDUCATING AFRICA Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education 2008 seek to identify the very best
organizations rising to the challenges of supporting education across Africa, to highlight their models, and to reward their
achievements.
The competition offers 50 prizes of $1,000 for the most entrepreneurial education programs in every African country, a top prize of $10,000, and two runners-up prizes of $5,000.
At Teach A Man To Fish we believe that if the huge demand for edu more...
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RiceTec had made 20 far-reaching claims related to Basmati in Patent No. 5663484. As a result of a Supreme Court case filed by the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, the Government of India challenged 3 claims related to rice grain (No.s 15-17) in April 2000. RiceTec had given up 4 claims. However, the claims related to seed had not been challenged. The re-examination request filed in the USPTO by the Government was done in the name of Agricultural and Processed Food Produc more...
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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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