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The Development Gateway is a portal that provides access to information on key issues with relevance to development, including science and technology and the role of knowledge in economic development. The Development Gateway is an independent not-for-profit organisation and it was conceived by former World Bank President James Wolfensohn and initially developed within the World Bank.
The purpose of this site is to further stimulate the recognition, utilisation and exchange of indigenous knowledge in the development process. The site aims to act as a platform for local communities, NGOs, development practitioners, policymakers, and academics interested in IK. The organisers invite you to contribute to the promotion of indigenous knowledge in the development and scientific enterprise, and to provide them with information on links to sites with case studies, tools, guidelines and manuals on the use of IK, best practices, programmes and projects, directories, databases, conferences, and mailing lists.
This page of the Development Gateway contains links and summaries of resources and documents on technology transfer issues.
DOAJ is a directory of open-access research journals, and was launched by Lund University, Sweden in May 2003. In order to be listed, journals must fit certain criteria, for instance, they must be peer-reviewed, or subject to an equivalent form of quality control. To read more about the selection criteria,
click here. DOAJ is currently developing a searchable index of participating journal papers.
This project aims to educate the public about the problem of antibiotic resistance. The website provides information for healthcare professionals, the public, teachers, parents, children, and daycare and assisted living sites. The emphasis is on the appropriate use of antibiotics, and the need for good hygiene to prevent infections. It offers guidelines for managing respiratory tract infections, including colds, flu, sore throats, cough, earaches, sinus infections, bronchitis and pneumonia.
Some of this information is provided in languages other than English, including Arabic, Chinese, Korean and Punjabi.
The website also tries to educate children by offering them online games, colouring sheets to download and other activities. The aim is to get children to understand a little more about microorganisms that cause illness and how not to fall ill.
The US Department of Energy's genome site provides information about US involvement in the Human Genome Project (HGP). The website includes basic information about the
HGP,
educational resources and a section on
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI), There is also information about the
GTL (formerly Genomes To Life) programme, which will explore practial applications of genomic information.
Down to Earth is a fortnightly magazine published by India's Centre for Science and Environment. It aims "to inform people about the environmental threats facing India and the world". The online version features archives from 1992 onwards, with selected full-text articles available to non-subscribers free of charge.
DSpace is a groundbreaking digital library system to capture, store, index, preserve, and redistribute the intellectual output of a university's research faculty in digital formats. Developed jointly by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard (HP), it is freely available to research institutions worldwide as an open-source system that can be customised and extended. DSpace software manages and distributes digital items, made up of digital files (or bitstreams) and allows the creation, indexing, and searching of associated metadata to locate and retrieve the items.
E-BioSci is a "platform for access and retrieval of full text and factual information in the Life Sciences" run by the
European Molecular Biology Organisation. As well as networking online journals, it also provides access to life science databases, such as those with genomic data. The finished product is still in development, but a prototype is already available.
Set up by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
(ICTP), eJDS aims to facilitate access to scientific literature for free in the fields of Physics and Mathematics, by distributing scientific articles via email to developing-world scientists with poor Internet connectivity. Several major publishers have adhered to the programme, with exact rules over access dependent on each publisher. Access to eJDS is granted on an individual basis and requires registration.
Earth Trends is a free online information service produced by the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, and is based on their annual World Resources Report. It is packed full of easily accessible information including hundreds of maps, country profiles, data tables and feature articles analysing all major current environmental trends - including biodiversity and protected areas. Earth Trends is based on existing data sources including those of the UN Environment Programme, the UN Development Programme and the World Conservation Union.
EarthWire/Africa provides a free daily overview of environmental news from 14 countries in southern Africa. The site reviews more than 40 newspapers for environment-related news stories. Press releases and news from research organisations, the public sector, and environmental organisations are also included.
EdStats, developed by the World Bank, collects data on education from national reports, UNESCO (UN Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development to provide educational statistics for over 200 countries and regions.
It also includes World Bank public expenditure data from 2002 onwards as well as projections of educational attainment and enrolment rates until 2050.
Data can be custom searched but is also available in pre-defined reports by country or topic, for example on the Millennium Development Goals or private education expenditure.
This resource guide from Eldis — a knowledge service run by the UK Institute of Development Studies — disseminates academic research and official documents on socio-economic, governance and policy issues relating to agricultural biotechnology in developing countries. It publishes summaries of all documents linked to from the site.
Eldis also links to key websites for agriculture and biotechnology organisations, research groups and information services.
The EJB is an open access peer-reviewed journal published by UNESCO. In addition to scientific studies, the journal has a regular section on biotechnology in developing countries. In past issues, this has included reviews of current research and case studies of capacity development, benefit sharing and other issues related to biotechnology in the South.
This website provides briefing documents for decision makers on current proposals under negotiation in the Bali Action Plan. A summary of key issues in the climate negotiations is available along with background information and commentary on the plan's building blocks — mitigation, adaptation, technology and finance — as well as land use, land-use change and forestry. The website supports a UN Development Programme project, involving 10 countries to assess developing countries' funding requirements for mitigating and adapting to climate change.
Since 1995, ENN been involved as a multi-faceted web production on environmental issues, including climate change and biodiversity. ENN operates mainly as a freely available information source rather than advocacy website, primarily focusing on environmental news but also including live chats, interactive quizzes, daily feature stories, forums for debate, audio and video.
This website on ethnoveterinary medicine deals with people’s knowledge, skills, methods, practices and beliefs with regard to the care of their animals. The website features news of conferences and events, new projects, publications, links and online journals.
A comprehensive online press service offering the latest research advances in science, medicine, health and technology, based primarily on press releases from scientific institutions and publications in the United States and elsewhere. Some parts of the website are available to registered journalists only. Eurekalert is maintained by the
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The European Bioinformatics Institute is a non-profit academic organisation that forms part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). Its mission is to ensure that the growing body of information from molecular biology and genome research is placed in the public domain and is accessible freely to all facets of the scientific community in ways that promote scientific progress. The EBI is also a centre for research and services in bioinformatics, and manages databases of fully sequenced and published genomes.
