Targeting Science, Technology and Innovation

“No country on earth has developed without deploying, harnessing and utilizing STI, whether through technology transfer or homegrown solutions”.

        - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian President, in a Speech at the 2008 Science in Africa Summit

This is a public notice post.

Out of general interest, this writer brings to your notice the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS) facilitated 2010 African Manifesto for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI).

The African Manifesto for Science, Technology and Innovation makes a case for Africa’s sovereignty in science, technology and innovation. The Manifesto is a tool for shaping shared visions about STI in Africa, for Africans, by Africans, in a multi-lateral dialogue, with the rest of the world. The Manifesto is a passionate call for the Africans to take responsibility and act in every capacity to secure self rule in STI for African development.

The ATPS is a multi-disciplinary network of researchers, practitioners and policy makers that promotes science, technology and innovation policy research, dialogue and practice, for African Development. With a regional secretariat in Nairobi, it operates through national chapters in 30 countries with an expansion plan in place to cover the entire Africa.

See: www.atpsnet.org/Files/the_african_manifesto_for_st&i.pd