| Description: |
 The
purpose of the Global Knowledge and Development Project is
to identify new strategies and mechanisms for enhancing the
science and technology capacity of developing countries. The
project emerged in relation to concerns over the growing knowledge
divide between industrialized and developing countries, and
seeks to improve understanding of the role of international
science and technology cooperation in this context. To this
end, the GKD Project has produced two resources. The first
is the Inventory of International
Science and Technology Cooperation Programs, a searchable,
on-line listing of 270 programs engaged in the delivery of
S&T-focussed assistance
to developing countries. The Inventory provides a centralized
database of information for researchers and practitioners in
the S&T development community. It is also intended to provide
baseline data on the existing landscape of S&T cooperation
with the aim of identifying gaps, measuring and comparing different
modes of intervention, and generally assisting the donor community
to design more effective and coordinated S&T investments.
In a second component, the project has produced a comprehensive
history and analysis of international S&T cooperation,
including recommendations for the reform of S&T policy
and institutions, in a report entitled "The Sisyphus
Challenge: Knowledge, Innovation, and the Human Condition in
the 21st Century." Together, these resources provide
a wealth of new information and best practice ideas in support
of new and improved approaches to international S&T cooperation. |
