Month: July 2010

Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal and María de Lurdes Rodrigues, Rector of the Lisbon University Institute, invite the XI Ibero-American Congress of Science and Technology Indicators

 

 

The XI Ibero-American Congress of Science and Technology Indicators will be held between September 7 and 9, 2021, and will have as its theme “25 years of RICYT: lessons learned and future challenges.” The headquarters will be the city of Lisbon, Portugal.

More information in http://congreso.ricyt.org

The First Hemispheric Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities on Science and Technology within the Framework of CIDI will be held in Lima, Peru on November 11-12, 2004. It will discuss the role of science, technology, engineering, and innovation on the economic, social, cultural and scientific development within the Member States. It will also discuss its great impact in the job creation for confronting poverty and strengthening democratic governments, which will be the topics of the next Summit of High Authorities and Governments of the Americas that will take place in 2005.

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The XI Seminar on Technology Management took place in Sanvador/Bahia, Brazil, supported by ALTEC – Latin- Ibero-American Association for Technology Management. The event was carried out through an alliance between various well-known Brazilian institutions, with the coordination of the Group of Technology Policy and Management of the University of São Paulo (PGT/USP), the Federation of Industries of the State of Bahia through the Euvaldo Lodi Institute – FIEB/IEL, the State University of Campinas – UNICAMP, the Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation of the State of Bahia – SECTI/BA, the State University of Bahia – UFBA, and the University of Salvador – UNIFACS.

 

In the framework of VI Indicators Workshop, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and RICYT signed a cooperation agreement in the field of science and technology statistics and indicators. The purpose is to strengthened the joint work, considering that both institutions share the objective of developing better statistics and indicators in the field of Science and Technology.

The signing of the agreement formalizes the joint work carried out by RICYT and UIS and gives a new institutional thrust to the development of science, technology and innovation indicators in the region.

 

The agreement sets a general framework of cooperation between both institutions and points out the next areas:

• Data collection: it was agreed that RICYT will carry out the collection of the information in the regional countries and give the information to the UIS, respecting the principles of non data duplication.

• Publications and circulation: Both institutions cooperate with the circulation of the activities and will carry out publications on the shared topics.

• Creation of capabilities: it was compelled the cooperation in the creation of science and technology capabilities, sharing the acknowledgements which refers to human sources and available methodologies.

• Methodological Development: it was agreed to develop jointly documents of methodological development.

 

Also, the UIS will spread the documents made by the RICYT along the region.

 

Between the activities programmed for 2004, the Network on Science and Technology Indicators –Ibero-American and Inter-American- organized the Central-America Seminar-Workshop on Science and Technology Indicators with a gender approach. The meeting took place in June 10 and 11, 2004, in San Salvador , El Salvador . It was aimed at encouraging the elaboration of Science and Technology indicators in the region, under a gender-centred perspective.

There were present many representants of Science and Technology, as:

José Roberto Alegría Coto, Departamento de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (CONACYT) El Salvador; Guillermo Godínez, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONCYT) Guatemala; Aquiles Díaz Chávez, Consejo Hondureño de Ciencia y Tecnología (COHCIT) Honduras; Miriam Andrea Vigil Rodríguez, Consejo Nicaragüense de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONICYT) Nicaragua; Pilar Trimiño Vásquez, Comisión Nacional de Indicadores de Ciencia y Tecnología/Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica; and Lourdes Palma, Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación (SENACYT) Panama.

The meeting was co-organized with the local counterpart of CONACYT, and it was supported by OAS and OEI. María Elina Estébanez (researcher from Centro REDES, Argentina ) coordinated the meeting, in representation RICYT .

In the framework of the Project “Toward the construction of a system for science, technology and innovation indicators”, supported by the Organization of American States (OAS), Network on Science and Technology Indicators –Ibero-American and Inter-American- ( RICYT /CITED) has programmed a series of activities aimed at applying a gender approach to the construction of indicators in the region. As a part of these activities, it was performed the first sub-regional meeting, intended to begin the reflection about methodological alternatives and posibilities for the construction of science and gender indicators. The meeting took place in San Salvador , El Salvador , June 10 and 11, 2004, and was co-organized with the local counterpart of CONACYT. The meeting, titled Seminar-Workshop on Science and Technology Indicators with a gender approach, had the support of OAS and the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI).

> Information about the seminary

> Seminar report

 

Seminar presentations

>Indicadores de Ciencia y Género en la RICYT

>Situación de la ciencia y la tecnología en América Latina

>Panorama de la participación de la mujer en las actividades de investigación y desarrollo en la región iberoamericana – interamericana

>Panamá: Indicadores de Actividades de Ciencia y Tecnología con Enfoque de Género

>Costa Rica: Indicadores de Ciencia y Género

>Costa Rica: Indicadores de Ciencia y Género. Análisis de datos

>Nicaragua: Situación del acceso a la información desagregada por sexo

>Honduras: Análisis y datos desagregados estadísticos sobre la mujer

>Guatemala: Situación de la Ciencia y la Tecnología a partir de Indicadores Básicos

>El Salvador: Indicadores de ciencia y tecnología bajo un enfoque de género

>El Salvador: Situación de la ciencia y la tecnología a partir de indicadores básicos: en Sistema Nacional de Innovación

 

Documents on science and gender indicators

>Estado de la Ciencia 2003

>Estado de la Ciencia 2002

>Desarrollo metodológico para la inclusión de la variable género en la construcción de indicadores – Dra. Tatiana Láscaris Comneno

>Desarrollos metodológicos para la inclusión de la variable género en la construcción de indicadores de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación en la región Iberoamericana-H.Vessuri, M.V. Canino, M.Rausell

 

RICYT new comparative indicators are now available. The updated series cover from 1990 to 2002, including the 28 countries that currently provide information to the network. Indicators expressed in Purchase Power Parity (PPP) are also being included, in order to provide a new perspective in the S&T information comparison.

Go to the comparative indicators

 

The Purchase Power Parity (PPP) represents the quantity of local currency units required to buy goods or services in the local market, as one dollar would do in the United States market (using that country as reference). In that way, PPP measures involve the exchange rate, as well as the relative prices index of each country.

The main objective of PPP measures is to obtain the real values for the comparison of the GDP and S&T expenditure between countries.

All these tables will be published in the new edition of de annual report “El Estado de la Ciencia 2003”.