The
primary goal of this programme is to engage IAP and its Members in
strengthening their own scientific and technical (S&T) capacity as
well as in developing countries and transitional economies by enhancing
access to and use of digital knowledge and the related infrastructure.
More specifically, it will promote the goal established in IAP's
Strategic Plan to enhance the quantity and quality of information on
issues of science and society that is being exchanged among member
academies, thereby building the policy advisory capacity of individual
academies. The programme also will build directly upon the activities
and results of the 2004-2007 Initiative on Access to Scientific
Information in Developing Countries. The two major areas of focus are:
- access to and use of digital S&T data and information, and
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