(유엔본부) 후진국, 과학기술 분야 발전시켜야

후진국들이 스스로 과학·기술분야에 대한 투자를 게을리 할 경우 시간이 갈수록 선진국과의 격차가 더욱 벌어질 수 있다고 5일(현지시간) 국제학술위원회(IAC)가 밝혔다.


90개국 출신의 학자들이 모인 IAC는 이날 유엔에 제출한 보고서를 통해 "현재까지 빠르게 변화하고 있는 기술 분야의 모델들이 후진국에 제대로 적용되지 못하고 있다"고 주장했다.

IAC는 "후진국에 기술을 이전하는 작업이나 원조활동이 제대로 이행되고 있지 않기 때문"이라고 이유를 설명했다.

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http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=4295309§ion=news


Poor Nations Must Catch Up on Science, UN Told
Thu 5 February, 2004 20:19
 
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Poor nations must develop their own science and technology capabilities or risk falling farther and farther behind the industrialized world, a group of 90 national science academies reported on Thursday.

The inability of most poor countries to keep up with rapid technological change shows that current models of technology transfer and international aid are not working well, the InterAcademy Council said in a report to the United Nations.

"Enhancing science and technology capacity in developing countries is truly a necessity and not a luxury," the report concluded, citing a growing gap between the world's "have" and "have not" countries.

The council was formed in 2000 by the leaders of 90 of the world's national science academies, to advise international bodies such as the United Nations on scientific matters.

The council is a private organization and is headquartered at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The report was prepared by a council study group.

The report said wealthy and poor countries showed stark differences in the number of scientists they were turning out and their commitment to research and development.

While rich industrialized nations spend between 1.5 percent and 3.8 percent of their gross domestic product on research and development, most developing nations devote less than 0.5 percent of GDP to research and development, it said.

While the number of scientists and engineers averages 3,281 per million people in wealthy countries, middle-income nations average just 788 per million and the figure is too small to be reliably calculated in poor countries, it found.

The study group called on all developing nations to commit at least 1 percent to 1.5 percent of their GDP to building science and technology capacity.