With great success ended the VI Workshop on Science and Technology Indicators, organized by RICYT in Buenos Aires on September 15, 16 and 17. More than 300 people took part in the meeting, representing almost all the regional countries, along professionals from international institutions as OAS, OECD and UNESCO. The workshop had 80 presentations, available in this site.
As a conclusion of the workshop, the participants raised a final declaration recommending the support to RICYT’s activities in order to consolidate the regional scientific and technological information systems.
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Under the topic of “Measuring knowledge for social transformation”, the Sixth Workshop of Science and Technology Indicators Ibero-American and Inter-American gathered regional and extra-regional specialists to think about the role of science and technology indicators as guidance in politic, scientific, technology and innovation which contribute to the socioeconomic development in Ibero-American countries.
In addition to the traditional subjects related to the measurement of scientific and technology activities, new issues were discussed in the framework of the meeting. Sessions on innovation, social impact of science and technology, public perception of science, knowledge society, biotechnology indicators, gender in science and internationalization of science were included. The attendants to the workshop represented science and technology institutions of the whole region, as well as specialists of OAS, UNESCO, OECD and Eurostat.
During the conclusions of the meeting, the participants manifested that the importance on keeping the availability of updated and reliable indicators is a permanent challenge that deserves the support of the governments and institutions of the different countries and, at the same time, an essential condition for those which are capable to design and evaluate policies of science and technology development, closely related to the objectives of economic and social development.