Displaying 1-2 of 2 key documents Source: UN Economic and Social
Council (ECOSOC) | 2009 This resolution, drafted by the UN
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), aims to mainstream global
attempts to facilitate scientific innovation for sustainable
development. Its importance lies in engaging with the vast array
of rights-based science and technology issues — including
research systems, knowledge divides and cyber-security — and its
explicit attempts to ground scientific and technological advance
within the framework for achieving the UN's Millennium
Development Goals. It presents a series of recommendations for
consideration by national governments, the UN Commission on
Science and Technology for Development, and the UN Conference on
Trade and Development (UNCTAD). These include mainstreaming
science and technology promotion and investment in governments'
national development plans; providing suitable working
conditions for scientific talent, particularly women and young
graduates, to prevent brain drain; id