DFID3: Knowledge for Development

 

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How can the international community help to harness the power of knowledge to meet its development targets?

The revolution in computing is an important factor behind the rapid advances in scientific knowledge, including in genetics and biotechnology. Effective harnessing of this power, and translation into action on the ground, offers the prospect of addressing successfully long standing problems of disease, crop production, and so on which have eluded science in the past. There is the possibility of leapfrogging stages in the development process, and substituting human capital for financial as a key factor in development. But this raises important issues of how to harness science and technology for development. How do we encourage the private sector to invest in relevant research? How can developing countries increase their capacity to produce relevant knowledge and/or absorb and put it to effective use in practice? What should be the role of the international development assistance community? What should be the role of the research community in developed countries?
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