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SciDev.Net  

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  • —the Science and Development Network, widely known by its Web address—is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing reliable and authoritative information about science and technology specifically for the developing world.Through its Web site, gives policymakers, researchers, the media, and civil society information about and a platform to discuss how science and technology can reduce poverty, improve health, and raise standards of living around the world. also builds developing countries' capacity for communicating science and technology through encouraging regional networks of committed individuals and organizations and by providing practical guidance and specialist workshops. [Source: Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication; SciDev.Net]

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