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• Opening Ceremony
• Science and Innovation as a Global Enterprise
• Investing in Future Generations
• Plenary Session II.
• The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation in the Achievement of The Millennium Development Goal
• Investing in Knowledge for Peace IPSO (Israeli-Palestine Science Organisation) Panel
• Plenary Session III. - Panel: Reviews of Representatives of Global Fora
• Investing in Knowledge for Sustainability I. - The Best Science-Based Governance Initiatives
• Investing in Knowledge for Sustainability II. - Paradigm Change for Sustainability - Sine Qua Nons
• Investing in Knowledge for Sustainability III. - Science-Based Politics towards a Paradigm Change
• Investing in Knowledge for Sustainability IV. - Moral Imperatives for Europe and the World
• Special Session on "Investing in STI: Challenges and Opportunities for Parliaments" I.
• Special Session on "Investing in STI: Challenges and Opportunities for Parliaments" II.
• Plenary Session IV.
• Parliament Plenary Session and Closing Plenary Session

Session II: The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation in the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals: From Policy to Actions

Thursday, 8 November 2007
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest V., Roosevelt square 9.)

11.30 - 13.30
Room C

The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation in the Achievement of The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): from Policy to Actions

 

Organisers
UNESCO and TWAS

Part I. Opening of the Session

Chair
Mustafa EL-TAYEB
Director, Science Policy Division, UNESCO

• Opening Addresses
  
  • Walter ERDELEN
    Assistant Director for Natural Sciences, UNESCO
  • Jacob PALIS
    President, TWAS
• Introductory Remarks: The MDGs and the Role of Science
  
  • Jeffrey SACHS
    Director, Earth Institute, USA
  • Mohammed HASSAN
    Executive Director, TWAS
• Discusssion

Part II.

Chair
Dato Lee YEE CHEONG
Coordinator of the UN Task Force 10

Speakers

• Yongyuth YUTHAVONG
  Minister of Science and Technology, Thailand
  Harnessing STI for Development: the Case of Thailand
• Hani HILAL
  Minister of Higher Education and Research, Egypt
  Harnessing STI for Development: the Case of Egypt
• Adnan BADRAN
  Former Prime Minister, Jordan
  The STI Landscape in the Arab World
• Armando SANGUINI
  Personal Representative of the Prime Minister for Africa; Director General for Sub-Sahara Africa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy
  Achieving the MDG: A View from the North
• Conclusions by Dato Lee YEE CHEONG