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Fourteenth session of International Bioethics Committee
This event gathered various experts from across world to discuss issues of bioethics and technology transfer. This led to establishment of a UNESCO Regional Bioethics Centre at Egerton University, Njoro campus, Kenya and was followed by another conference at the Centre on Bioethical Perspectives and Practices in Research, Medicine, Life Sciences and Related Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa, which gathered researchers, scientists, observers and guests from sub-saharan Africa and other parts of the world with an interest in bioethical issues in Africa.
Source: UNESCO http://portal.unesco.org/shs/admin/ev.php?URL_ID=6349&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1263744318
Entry submitted by Geoffrey Kololi Wanyama
OECD: Achieving the Successful Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies
The paper states that in order to successfully transfer environmentally sound technologies, much has to be done both by the developed and developing countries. For example, the paper suggests that there has to be a transfer of know-how, capacity building and technical skills through training. Governments should eliminate tariffs and other trade barriers. Developed countries have to help with financial resources, and new technologies have to be adapted to the recipient country context.
Source: OECD website
Entry submitted by Rosalie Lehel
UN Conference on S&T for the Benefit of the Less Developed Countries
The 1963 United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for the Benefit of Less Developed Countries, held in Geneva, involved some 1,665 delegates from 96 countries and 108 specialized agencies, with sessions devoted to science policy, education, and natural resources, among others. The conference was meant to address “the observed trend toward greater economic disparity between the developed and developing countries”. (Jolly, 2004: 95)
UN Declaration: New International Economic Order
The Declaration for the Establishment of a New International Economic Order (NIEO), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly Special Sixth Session in 1974 (1 May 1974, A/RES/S-6/3201) called for a restructuring of the international order toward greater equity for developing countries, particularly in reference to a wide range of trade, financial, commodity, and debt-related issues. The Declaration was built on a set of proposals for more equitable international economic cooperation, as put forward during the 1970s by developing countries through UNCTAD, including to: reform the terms of trade, increase development assistance, reduce developed-country tariffs, among others.
UNCTAD-III, Santiago
The original resolutions presented by the G77 were on world monetary reform and participation by developing countries in the IMF, but resulted in resolutions on technology transfer and ‘Special Measures for the 25 Least Developed Countries’. There was a heated debate on the terms and conditions of technology transfer being institutionalised in an ‘International Code of Conduct’. Part of the difficulties in negotiations resulted from a divide among the G77 group.
UNCTAD Intergovernmental Working Group on Technology Transfer
The Trade and Development board of UNCTAD decided to set up an Intergovernmental Group on the Transfer of Technology with 45 governments represented, to identify obstacles and problems in technology transfer, to consider the possibilities of international and national action. The Intergovernmental Group was not empowered to start international negotiations, only to propose areas for action. (Connors, 1973: 15)
