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African Scientists Mull Space Science, Technology
posted: 09:12 am ET
17 November 1999
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africa_conferenceLIBREVILLE (Reuters) - African scientists are holding a four-day meeting in Gabon to discuss how to spread the benefits of scientific and technological progress, conference officials said on Wednesday. "It's the scientific side of globalization,'' the meeting's chairman, Malian-born Cheik Modibo Diarra, told Reuters, noting that it was important for African researchers to share their experiences with each other and the outside world. The theme of the four-day meeting, which began on Tuesday, is "Space sciences and new information and communication technologies.'' Diarra, who designed the navigation system of the U.S. space agency NASA's 1997 Pathfinder mission to Mars, organized the gathering through his Pathfinder Foundation, together with the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), of which he is a goodwill ambassador. "It is necessary to give all peoples the chance of assimilating world scientific and technological progress to ensure their well-being and improve their living conditions,'' Gabon's higher education, research and technological innovation minister, Andre Dieudonne Berre, told the meeting.
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