science as a development priority
In 2000, Heads of State from several countries signed a document which gave the project the green light millennium. This project sought to determine the feasibility of take science and technology priorities in public policy and to end the hegemony of economists who have practiced for decades in developing countries.
was not intended to set aside economic policies, these are fundamental for development. But it is sought to increase the importance of science and technology in sustainable development.
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are four points of emphasis of this project:
* Build and enhance scientific and technological institutions consulting national governments and international agencies.
* Employ high-level institutions such as universities, directly at the service of community development.
* Strengthen national programs designed to promote self-employment, the generation of innovative and self-managed micro-enterprises.
* Design infrastructure projects as a way to promote technological innovation.
An example used by project managers, focused on the countries of South Asia and the Asia Pacific Basin, with Malaysia as a concrete example. Highlighted the experiences of this country and exhibited in 1980, was created the Academy of Sciences, through a program of public policies which sought to give the profile of raw material supplier, to become a highly diversified economy. As a result, also be said that today Malaysia is able to export scientific and technological services of high added value. The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation is at the heart of all economic decisions in this country.
This is what is involved broadly in this millennium project.
But because of the global financial crisis, the question that arises is: Is this project viable? It seems that the answer is not very clear even for calls "Emerging economies." This requires a policy change in education and health and do not seem to be much willingness of governments to turn in times of crisis. But the development of a real change should focus, above all, education in all countries, an education that demands on governments to develop people in an environment different from today, concluding that we live in a world where we are increasingly dependent on each other. And where public policies are aimed at helping people to understand their place in society. Abelardo Vela
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