Science and Technology for Development

A/RES/52/184View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 95c Science and technology for development, published in 1998.

What other versions does this mandate have?

12 versions · 1981–2012

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/66/211

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2012	A/RES/66/211	Science and technology for development	1,074	76%Compare
2010	A/RES/64/212	Science and technology for development	990	96%Compare
2008	A/RES/62/201	Science and technology for development	982	27%Compare
2006	A/RES/60/205	Science and technology for development	945	18%Compare
2004	A/RES/58/200	Science and technology for development	673	19%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2003–2013

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2013	A/68/227	Science and technology for development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/66/211
2011	A/66/208	Science and technology for development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/64/212
2005	A/60/184	Implementation of General Assembly resolution 58/200 science and technology for development : report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/58/200
2003	A/58/76	Impact of new biotechnologies, with particular attention to sustainable development, including food security, health and economic productivity report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/56/182

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Capacity Building Communication Technology Environmental Protection Information Technology Science and Technology Sustainable Development Technology Transfer

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms Economic and Social Council decision 1997/306 of 25 July 1997, in which the Council approved the provisional agenda for the fourth session of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development on the basis of the report of the Commission on its third session;⁴

⁴Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1997, Supplement No. 11 (E/1997/31).

Recognizes the ongoing work of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development, emphasizes the importance of the activities that are to be pursued within the framework of the Commission, including a broad spectrum of new global challenges in science and technology, encourages support to those undertakings and, in that regard, reaffirms that the substantive theme for the inter-sessional period 1997-1999 of the Commission will be "Science and technology partnerships and networking for national capacity-building";

Reaffirms that capacity-building in science and technology in developing countries should remain a priority issue on the United Nations agenda, and urges that international cooperation efforts be intensified and strengthened towards endogenous capacity-building of developing countries in science and technology, including their capacity to utilize scientific and technological developments from abroad as well as to modify and adapt them to suit local conditions;

Also recognizes the role of Governments in science and technology for development, in particular in providing appropriate regulatory frameworks and incentives for the development of science and technology capabilities;

Further recognizes the role of the private sector in science and technology for development, in particular in the transfer and development of science and technology capabilities;

Stresses the need to strengthen the important role of the United Nations in the field of science and technology as a cross-cutting concern within the work of the United Nations, particularly through effective policy guidance and better coordination, including international cooperation in technology assessment, monitoring and forecasting, as well as in the area of information and communication technologies, and in providing an environment conducive to the development of new environmentally sound technologies, and calls upon the organizations, funds and programmes of the United Nations to continue to work in a coordinated and expeditious manner to develop a catalogue of proved technologies to enable effective technology choice, by developing countries, of state-of-the-art technologies;

Reaffirms the need to fulfil the commitments on the provision of financial resources and transfer of technology contained in chapter 34 of Agenda 21,⁵ the outcome of the nineteenth special session of the General Assembly and the Agenda for Development;⁶

⁵Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992, vol. I, Resolutions adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum), resolution 1, annex II.

⁶Resolution 51/240, annex.

Also reaffirms the need for adequate financial resources on a continuous and assured basis to foster science and technology for development, in particular to promote endogenous capacity-building in developing countries in accordance with their priorities;

Stresses that the current forms of cooperation involving the public and private sectors of developing and developed countries should be built upon and expanded, and, in that context, also stresses the importance of identifying barriers and restrictions to the transfer of publicly and privately owned technologies, as affirmed by the General Assembly in paragraph 88 of the annex to its resolution S/19-2 as well as other relevant General Assembly resolutions and decisions, with a view to reducing such constraints while creating specific incentives, fiscal and otherwise, for the transfer of such technologies;

Recognizes the importance of cooperation among developing countries in the field of science and technology, building on their complementarities, and the need for further advancing such cooperation through the establishment or strengthening of national technology and information centres in developing countries and networking on subregional, regional, interregional and global levels to promote technology research, training and dissemination as well as joint projects in developing countries, and urges the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and other relevant international, regional and subregional organizations and programmes to provide continued and enhanced support through technical assistance and financing for such efforts;

Reiterates the affirmation of the General Assembly, as set forth in paragraph 93 of the annex to its resolution S/19-2, that the creation of centres for the transfer of technology at various levels, including the regional level, could greatly contribute to achieving the objective of transfer of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries and that, for that purpose, existing United Nations bodies and mechanisms, including, as appropriate, mechanisms for technical and environmental cooperation among developing countries, the Centre for Science and Technology for Development, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme and the regional commissions, should cooperate;

Invites the relevant bodies of the United Nations system to assess their capability to provide assistance and promote cooperation in the area of information and communication technologies, and to suggest areas in which they are best able to assist interested countries, in particular the developing countries, in the design and implementation of national strategies on such technologies;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session a report on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution.

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