Science and Technology for Development

A/RES/64/212View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 55c Science and technology for development, published in 2010.

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?

17 subjects

Civil Society Communication Technology Cooperation Between Organizations Developing Countries Development Strategies Digital Divide Environmentally Sound Technology Information Technology International Organizations Private Sector Research and Development Science and Technology Science and Technology Capability Science and Technology Policy Technical Cooperation Technological Innovations Technology Transfer

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms its commitment:

To strengthen and enhance existing mechanisms and to support initiatives for research and development, including through voluntary partnerships between the public and private sectors, to address the special needs of developing countries in the areas of health, agriculture, conservation, sustainable use of natural resources and environmental management, energy, forestry and the impact of climate change;

To promote and facilitate, as appropriate, access to, and development, transfer and diffusion of, technologies, including environmentally sound technologies and the corresponding know-how, to developing countries;

To assist developing countries in their efforts to promote and develop national strategies for human resources and science and technology, which are primary drivers of national capacity-building for development;

To promote and support greater efforts to develop renewable sources of energy, including appropriate technology;

To implement policies at the national and international levels to attract both public and private investment, domestic and foreign, that enhances knowledge, transfers technology on mutually agreed terms and raises productivity;

To support the efforts of developing countries, individually and collectively, to harness new agricultural technologies in order to increase agricultural productivity through environmentally sustainable means;

Recognizes that science and technology, including information and communications technologies, are vital for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and for the full participation of developing countries in the global economy;

Requests the Commission on Science and Technology for Development to provide a forum within which to continue to assist the Economic and Social Council as the focal point in the system-wide follow-up to the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society2 and to address within its mandate, in accordance with Council resolution 2006/46, the special needs of developing countries in areas such as agriculture, rural development, information and communications technologies and environmental management;

Encourages the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, in collaboration with relevant partners, to continue to undertake science, technology and innovation policy reviews, with a view to assisting developing countries and countries with economies in transition in identifying the measures that are needed to integrate science, technology and innovation policies into their national development strategies;

Encourages the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other relevant organizations to assist developing countries in their efforts to integrate science, technology and innovation policies into national development strategies;

Encourages Governments to strengthen and foster investment in research and development for environmentally sound technologies and to promote the involvement of the business and financial sectors in the development of those technologies, and invites the international community to support those efforts;

Encourages existing arrangements and the further promotion of regional, subregional and interregional joint research and development projects, where feasible, by mobilizing existing scientific and research and development resources and by networking sophisticated scientific facilities and research equipment;

Encourages the international community to continue to facilitate, in view of the difference in level of development between countries, an adequate diffusion of scientific and technical knowledge and transfer of, access to and acquisition of technology for developing countries, under fair, transparent and mutually agreed terms, in a manner conducive to social and economic welfare for the benefit of society;

Calls for continued collaboration between United Nations entities and other international organizations, civil society and the private sector in implementing the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, with a view to putting the potential of information and communications technologies at the service of development through policy research on the digital divide and on new challenges of the information society, as well as technical assistance activities, involving multi-stakeholder partnerships;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution and recommendations for future follow-up, including lessons learned in integrating science, technology and innovation policies into national development strategies.

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