1960 



■^'Science and Man in the Americas." Nature, v. 244, July 13, 1973: 66-67. 



"The American Association for the Advancement of Science and the newly- 

 formed Mexican National Council on Science and Technology (Conacyt) 

 jointly sponsored a meeting in Mexico City from June 20 to July 4 on the 

 theme Science and Man in the Americas." 

 "Science, Technology, and Development: the Consensus of Brasilia." America, v. 

 24, Oct. 1972:S1-S15. 



This supplement was excerpted from the official OAS document reporting 

 on the Brasilia Conference. "The primary purpose of the Spec'alized Confer- 

 ence on the Application of Science and Technology to Latin American 

 Development (CACTAL) was to explore the interdependent relationships of 

 science, technology, and development within the Latin American context. 

 The Conference was held in BrasiUa, Brazil, May 12-19, 1972." 

 Singer, H. W. "The Technology Gap and the Developing Countries." Interna- 

 tional Journal of Environmental Studies, \. 3, May 1972: 119-123. 



"As the ability to analyse technical scientific and managerial problems has 



grown in the rich industrial countries, the poor, low-income countries have 



become increasingly dependent on technologies conceived and developed in 



the rich countries and not suitable for their needs and resource endowments. 



In the light of this situation, it is suggested that the rich-developed countries 



should reorient a substantial part of their exnenditures on R. & D. so that 



some of the resulting advances in science and technology are directly geared 



to the problems of the less developed countries as pointed out in the U. N. 



World Plan of Action for the application of science and technology to 



development." 



Sino-U.S. Workshop on Scientific and Technical Information Needs and Resources 



of the Republic of China (T.-iiwan), Washineton, D.C., 1973. Scientific and 



Technical Information Needs and Resources in the Republic of China (Taiwan); 



Report of a Sino-U.S. Workshop. Washington, National Academy of Sciences, 



1974. 77 p. 



Jointly sponsored by Academia Sinica, Republic of China, and Board on 

 Science and Technology for International Development, Commission on 

 International Relations, National Academy of Sciences-National Research 

 Council, United States of America. The purpose of the workshop was to 

 identify the needs for scientific and technical information in Taiwan and 

 resources reqxiired, to make recommendations for strengthpning the informa- 

 tion structure, and to identify areas for further U.S. -Chinese Nationalist 

 cooperation. 

 Singer, Hans W. "Transfer of Technology in LDC's." Inter economics, no. 1, Jan. 

 1974: 14-17. 



Discusses the controversial problems connected with the transfer of highly 

 sophisticated technologies to developing countries. Concludes that this trans- 

 fer and adaptation of technologies is necessary and advantageous, but depends . 

 on the development of a national technological capacity of a developing 

 country as a prerequisite. 

 Shapley, Deborah, "Science in Vietnam: The Postwar North Seeks American 

 Assistance." Science, v. 189, Aug. 29, 1975: 705-707. 



Report of a visit by Yale Prof, of biology Arthur W. Galston to North 

 Vietnam in June 1975. 

 Thomson, David R. "Imported Technology and National Interests in Latin 

 America." Case studv prepared for the Sixteenth Session of the Senior Seminar 

 in Foreign Policy, U.S. D^pt. of State, 1973-1974. 29 p. Available from the 

 State Dept. as FAR 19877-S. 

 Timmer, C.P., et. al. The Choice of Technology in Developing Countries: Some 

 Cautionary Tales. Cambridge, Harvard University, Center for International 

 Affairs, 1975. 1 12 p. (Harvard Studies in International Affairs, 32.) 



"This book focuses on the problem of why development policies, which 

 during the 1950s and 1960s were considered fairly successful in terms of 

 bringing about an overall rate of growth in the GNP, failed for the most 

 part in their articulated goal of bettering the lot of the bulk of the populations 

 in underdeveloped countries or in lowering their rate of unemployment." 

 Several case studies are included. These deal with Indonesia; irrigation 

 t.ubewells in East Pakistan, management techniques in Indonesia, and 

 petrochemical technology in Colombia. "All of these essays suggest that the 

 bias against more labor-intensive usages has been fostered by managers and 



