SciDev.Net announced the launch of a two-year pilot training programme called script, at a roundtable event for editors during Africa’s biggest science conference, the Next Einstein Forum in Kigali, Rwanda, for journalists and scientists in Kenya and Nigeria, which it aims to roll out across developing countries earlier this week at the NEF Global Gathering 2018.The objective of Script […]
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Download the NEF Global Gathering 2018 Program (ENG) here. Rencontre Internationale du NEF 2018 – Programme […]
Purposely talking, technology has its vital role and limitless possibility of finding smart and practical solutions. The feature of technology span in wide range of usefulness that serves all parts of the community and certainly help making easy and leverage living condition. As the year 2002 the WHO estimated that the number of people with […]
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“Former une nouvelle génération de chercheurs congolais” est devenu son mot d’ordre. En attendant de mettre sur pied des écoles d’été, il soutient plusieurs initiatives. D’abord, entre le 9 et le 14 avril 2018, les Kinois pourront le croiser, lors de la cinquième édition de la “Semaine de la science et des technologies”, organisée à l’initiative de […]
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“A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.” Equal access to opportunities in STEM for women translates in bringing more of the neglected half of the global population to innovate for a greater good. Equal access to opportunities in STEM for women translates in […]
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In the pathbreaking book The Golem: What you Should Know About Science, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch claimed that citizens of technological societies needed to pay attention to controversial science. Collins and Pinch argued that scientific controversies exist when the criteria that impart ‘scientific competence’ are publicly contested. “And we do not have to rely solely on […]
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