United Nations, New York,
05 February 2004 --
Ismail Serageldin and Jacob
Palis, co-chairs of the IAC panel on capacity building in S&T, presented
their panel’s report to a large audience at the UN’s meeting
room no.1. Secretary-General Kofi Anan presided over an hour-long session
with the UN ambassadors in which the inter-Academy Council Report on “Inventing
a better future” was presented by Serageldin, Palis and Mamphela
Ramphele. Mark Malloch-Brown, Administrator of the UNDP presented the
participants and after the Q&A, Bruce Alberts formally presented to
the SG a copy of the report. Serageldin referred to the occasion as “the
presentation of the views of the scientists of the world to the decisions-makers
of the world”. The promise of what science can do for the people
of the world is so clear, that the best of S&T must be harnessed to
serve the needs of the poorer majority on this planet. The report is available
on the Internet [Report Link].
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