The Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) is a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
The Commission provides the General Assembly and ECOSOC with high-level advice on relevant science and technology issues.
UNCTAD is responsible for the substantive servicing of the Commission.
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30 January 2017Q&A with Ambassador Benedicto Fonseca, Chair of the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for DevelopmentWho governs the Internet? To answer this contentious yet monumental question, member States of the United Nations have set in motion the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation, whose deliberations are organized by UNCTAD. This anonymous-sounding body is listening to important voices from governments, international organizations, civil society, academia and the private sector, all of whom have stake in the future of the information age. Its chair, Ambassador Benedicto Fonseca, Director, Department of Scientific and Technological Themes, Ministry of External Relations of Brazil, spoke about the Working Group's most recent meeting which wrapped on 27 January in Geneva. 26 January 2017Q&A with Ticora Jones, Division Chief, Higher Education Solutions Network, USAID Global Development LabPolicy makers can be a bridge between people who are passionate about ideas and a place where those ideas can be implemented, says Ticora Jones, whose work links up universities and local communities looking to technology to address development challenges. Ms. Jones was speaking at the UN's Commission on Science and Technology for Development, convened by UNCTAD in Geneva, Switzerland, on 23-25 January. 25 January 2017Q&A with Gillian Marcelle, Executive Director, UVI Research and Technology ParkIt is becoming clearer that tackling urgent development challenges like access to affordable homes and clean water requires mixing and matching traditional and non-traditional sources of innovation and investment. UVI Research and Technology Park Executive Director Gillian Marcelle, whose varied career spans academia, commerce and development agencies, visited the UN's Commission on Science and Technology for Development, convened by UNCTAD on 23-25 January, to spell out how she sees the way forward. 24 January 2017Q&A with Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Marketing at Cambridge Judge Business SchoolWhat does innovation have to do with reducing poverty? Participants at a meeting of the UN's Commission on Science and Technology for Development, convened by UNCTAD, on 23-25 January heard many answers, among them the concept of frugal or jugaad innovation. But what is that? One of its foremost proponents Jaideep Prabhu, co-author with Navi Radjou of Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth, explained. Page 2 of 9, items 6 to 10 of 44 |
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| 08-12 May 2017 | Commission on Science and Technology for Development, Twentieth Session | Geneva | Switzerland | | 09-13 May 2016 | Commission on Science and Technology for Development, Nineteenth Session | Geneva | Switzerland | | 04-08 May 2015 | Commission on Science and Technology for Development, eighteenth session | Geneva | Switzerland | | 12-16 May 2014 | Commission on Science and Technology for Development, seventeenth session | Geneva | Switzerland | | 03-07 Jun 2013 | Commission on Science and Technology for Development, sixteenth session | Geneva | Switzerland | | 21-25 May 2012 | Commission on Science and Technology for Development, fifteenth session | Geneva | Switzerland | | 22-27 May 2011 | Commission on Science and Technology for Development, fourteenth session | Geneva | | | 16-21 May 2010 | Commission on Science and Technology for Development, thirteenth session | Geneva | | | 24-29 May 2009 | Commission on Science and Technology for Development, twelfth session | Geneva | | | 25-30 May 2008 | Commission on Science and Technology for Development, eleventh session | Geneva | | | 22 May 2007 | CSTD-GAID panel on ICT for Development – A follow up to the World Summit on the Information Society | | | | 20-25 May 2007 | Commission on Science and Technology for Development, tenth session | Geneva | | | 14-19 May 2006 | Commission on Science and Technology for Development, ninth session | Geneva | | | 23-27 May 2005 | Commission on Science and Technology for Development, eighth session | Geneva | | | 24-28 May 2004 | Commission on Science and Technology for Development, seventh session | Geneva | | | 05-09 May 2003 | Commission on Science and Technology for Development, sixth session | Geneva | | | 28 May-01 Jun 2001 | Economic and Social Council, Commission on Science and Technology for Development, fifth session | Geneva | | | 17-21 May 1999 | Economic and Social Council, Commission on Science and Technology for Development, fourth session | Geneva | | | 12-16 May 1997 | Economic and Social Council, Commission on Science and Technology for Development, Third session | Geneva | | | 14-24 May 1995 | Economic and Social Council, Commission on Science and Technology for Development, Second session | Geneva | | | 11-23 Apr 1993 | Economic and Social Council, Commission on Science and Technology for Development, First session | Geneva | |
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