Skip Navigation

Science policy

Features

Here is a list of the latest articles

Green planet

How Rio+20 may boost the science in sustainability

Yojana Sharma describes various proposals for a new panel to monitor progress towards sustainable development after Rio+20.

8 February 2012 | EN

Princess Sumaya

Q&A: Princess Sumaya on science after the Arab Spring

Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan of Jordan talks to SciDev.Net about hopes for science in the Middle East, science diplomacy and the role of women scientists.

25 January 2012 | EN

Carel IJsselmuiden

Moving beyond aid to set the global health agenda

An international meeting aims to shake up donor−recipient relations in a quest for more enduring health gains, reports Beverly Petersen Stearns.

12 January 2012 | EN | FR

Vietnamese researcher

What will keep Vietnamese researchers at home?

Will Vietnam's science stipends be enough to keep scientists at home or will corruption, entrenched hierarchies and poor facilities prevail, asks Mike Ives?

1 November 2011 | EN

Gretchen Kalonji

Q&A: Gretchen Kalonji on UNESCO's plans for science

SciDev.Net speaks to UNESCO's Gretchen Kalonji about how a new panel of experts is breathing fresh life into the organisation's science plans.

5 October 2011 | EN | FR | 中文

Bernie Fanaroff

Q&A: Bernie Fanaroff on South Africa's bid to host the Square Kilometre Array

Bernie Fanaroff, director of South Africa's Square Kilometre Array project, tells SciDev.Net how hosting the world's most powerful radio telescope would benefit Africa.

2 August 2011 | EN

Philippe Mawoko

Q&A: Philippe Mawoko on Africa's new science observatory

Philippe Mawoko, the first head of the African science observatory currently under construction in Equatorial Guinea, speaks to SciDev.Net about the new institution.

29 July 2011 | EN

Q&A: Romain Murenzi on the future of TWAS

Romain Murenzi, the new executive director of TWAS, the developing world's science academy, talks to SciDev.Net about his plans for the organisation.

14 July 2011 | EN

Martyn Poliakoff

Q&A: Martyn Poliakoff on science diplomacy and green chemistry in Africa

The Royal Society's new foreign secretary, Martyn Poliakoff, talks to SciDev.Net about his plans to develop links with African scientists.

8 July 2011 | EN

Overcoming gender barriers in science: Facts and figures

Developing countries need more women scientists. Jeanne Therese H. Andres charts the obstacles and how to overcome them.

22 June 2011 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

Mary Abukutsa-Onyango

Successful women scientists: how did they do it?

Women from Jordan, Kenya, Pakistan, Peru and the Philippines tell SciDev.Net how they realised their dreams of careers in science.

22 June 2011 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

Mexican agricultural scientist inspecting experimental maize plot

Rebuilding Mexico's science and technology capacity

Can recent policies and new programmes tackle Mexico's serious shortage of homegrown science and technology? Cecilia Rosen finds out.

30 May 2011 | EN | ES

Heneri Dzinotyiweyi, Zimbabwean science minister

Tough times for Zimbabwe's science minister

Munyaradzi Makoni explains how an economic crisis and a brain drain have created problems for Zimbabwe's science minister, Heneri Dzinotyiweyi.

8 April 2011 | EN

Calestous Juma

Q&A: Calestous Juma and African innovation

Harvard globalisation professor Calestous Juma talks to SciDev.Net about how to get Africa's wealth of innovation making an impact.

10 February 2011 | EN | FR

Q&A: Mohamed Hassan and 25 years at TWAS

Mohamed Hassan, outgoing executive director of TWAS, talks to SciDev.Net about 25 years in the job and his hopes for the academy's future.

30 December 2010 | EN

Jean Pierre Ezin

Whatever happened to the Pan-African University?

The African Union is determined to push ahead with plans for a Pan-African University, despite disputes over several of its five hubs.

29 November 2010 | EN

Indian farmer

Indian science: the achievements and the challenges

India's research and development is on the up, but there are problems to tackle if it is to create a prosperous society for everyone.

Source: TWAS, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World

15 October 2010 | EN

Science: what has it done for the Millennium Development Goals?

As the UN Millennium Development Goals are scrutinised in New York, SciDev.Net finds out what — if anything — science has contributed.

17 September 2010 | EN | ES | 中文

Tweaking technology for the bottom four billion

With a bit of imagination, technologies can be made cheap enough for the poor, but investors are needed, finds Kafil Yamin.

30 July 2010 | EN

Science challenges in post-apartheid South Africa

The optimism felt by scientists at the fall of apartheid is fading as financial and social realities fail to match up to expectations.

Source: Nature

18 February 2010 | EN | 中文

Information Services