News
- InterAcademy Council (IAC) - a branch organization of IAP - has released its first study urging strong science, technology capacity for all nations at a UN launch on 5 February. The study Inventing a Better Future: A Strategy for Building Worldwide Capacities in Science and Technology proposes new initiatives to strengthen national scientific capabilities worldwide.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan stressed at the launch on 5 February the need to mobilize the best scientific minds in service of the world's peoples.
Links:
Press releases (English, Spanish and French), and the full report via the IAC website: http://www.interacademycouncil.net/.
EDITORIAL, Science - Vol.303, 13 February 2004. (pdf format)
- Mother and Child Health: The Pasteur Institute's Centre d'Information Scientifique interactive website, established in 2002, is a valuable source of information for sharing data and planning collaborative projects between scientists and clinicians from developing count-ries. Since January 2003, the website has received al-most 40,000 hits. The most popular page is 'Web Links,' where 79 links have been classified in 17 categories. The page contains information on international organizations working in child health as well as databases on HIV treatments. See: www.mother-child.org
- Science and the Media: Academia Nacional de Cien-cias Exactas Físicas y Naturales de la Argentina, SciDev.Net and the "Club 21" organized a science, technology and media conference, "In Search of a Common Language," 21-22 August 2003. The conference, which took place in Buenos Aires, provided a forum for scientists, public information officers and journalists to share their experience in communicating science and technology issues to the public. More than 450 individuals, mainly from Argentina, were in attendance. For the complete text of the report, see the Science and the Media section on the IAP website.
- Science Education: The proceedings of the IAP seminar "Experimental Materials and Learning Modules for Science Education," organized by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), 24-25 October 2002 in New Delhi, are now available in pdf format on the IAP web-site.