Taking the opportunity of the occasion, the Federal Minister of Science and Technology, Mir Changez Khan Jamali strongly recommended increasing the budget of Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) from 0.6% to 1% of GDP by year 2015, further taking it up to 2% by 2020.
Dr. Billal has pioneered establishment of a number of institutions including the ISESCO Center for Promotion of Scientific Research (ICPSR), Islamic Citation Centre (ISC), Islamic Body on Ethics of Science and Technology (IBEST), Islamic Network of Women Scientists (INWS) and launched a number of projects and strategies of prime importance for the promotion of science and technology in the Islamic World.
They raised concerns about a lack of promotion of science and technology subjects at school, leading to a low uptake of computer science and technology courses by university students.
Lidia Brito is director of the Division of Science Policy and Sustainable Development of UNESCO and former Minister of Education, Science and Technology of Mozambique.
As Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology of UNESCO from 2003 to 2010, I have seen a growing demand in this area starting with the governments themselves, since it was at the initiative of UNESCO Member States that a global Ethics Education Program was created in 2004.
The UNESCO's Science Day event was organized in collaboration with Ministry of Science and Technology and Pakistan Science Foundation, with the theme of "Science for Global Sustainability Interconnectedness, Collaboration, and Transformation".
Designed to spark the interest of middle and high-school girls in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects, the Women in STEM Speakers Bureau was launched by the White House Council on Women and Girls and Office of Science and Technology Policy in September of last year.
It was actually an alumni site for the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China that listed this job, until it was deleted a few months ago.
Enthusiasm for the White House site shows the lack of avenues at home to vent frustration, said David Zweig, professor of social science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
The UNESCO Ethics of Science and Technology Programme, organizer of the conference, was created in 1998 with the establishment of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) to generate ethical reflection on science and technology and its applications.
This process is an inherent part of the development of all new science and technology, and it tends to swing more widely and frequently in the early stages of all science and technology until the data settle mostly around one conclusion or the other.
Each year the PAEMST award, which is administered by the National Science Foundation on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, alternates between granting honors to teachers of grades K-6 and grades 7-12.
The Forum is organised by ICSU, in partnership with UNESCO, the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
But NARA's inspector general, Brachfeld, countered that the agency had violated National Institute of Science and Technology and Office of Management and Budget standards.
We're less inhibited online because we don't have to see the reaction of the person we're addressing, says Sherry Turkle, psychologist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of the social studies of science and technology.
The President said this calls for sharing the advances of science and technology for the benefit of all humankind.
He joined as Assistant Scientific Adviser in the Human Resource Development Programme of the Ministry of Science and Technology in the Government of Pakistan in 1985.
"The number of collapsed buildings this time is less, and most are old houses that were built long before, " added Wang Ruheng, dean of the school of civil engineering and architecture at Southwest University of Science and Technology in the city of Mianyang, in Sichuan province.
Develop training policies for teachers in science subjects, integrating of mathematics, science and technology including the issue of gender and participative learning.
In the first piece of research, a team from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the National University of Singapore, led by Vadim Makarov and Ilja Gerhardt, hacked into a system that connects several buildings on the National University of Singapore's campus.
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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Technology Inclusion Summit, hosted by Chief Technology Officer Todd Park, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Level Playing Field Institute.
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For an undisclosed sum, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has agreed to set up the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, or SkTech.
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On April 2011, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is one of the latest universities to launch an open-access repository with Open Repository, based on DSpace technology.
Even if he had somehow gotten a plane capable of carrying 40 lbs. of explosives, Paul Worsey, a professor of explosives engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, told TPM that one of the model planes would have to fly in though a window to do any real damage.
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"They have no ideological justification for being in power, " said David Zweig, social science professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
The PAEMST award recognizes outstanding primary-school math and science teachers and is administered by the National Science Foundation on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
UNESCO, as lead agency for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, organized the event together with the Government of Sweden and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.
If the benefits of science and technology are to reach the vast majority of our people who live in country side, some serious thinking is called for to develop science to serve the needs of these people.
This forum will bring together various partners of UNESCO, as the International Council for Science (ICSU), the World Federation of Engineering Organizations, the International Council of Social Sciences (ICSS), the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
As stated in NatCom's Constitution, the PSC on Science is chaired by the Secretary General of Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
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