By Daniel Itai.
Tanzania. (News of The South) -The Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (Costech) will from today till the end of the week host a research summit.
250 scientists from across the globe are already in attendance. The summit is being funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and Department for International Development (DFID).
The summit will be focussing on the importance of transparency in research and why communities should be involved in the planning.
“Through Research Transparency, a global biodiversity information facility institute whose headquarters are in Denmark has availed Tanzania with at least 500 000 data on research that has been kept outside the country.
In the health sector 90 percent of medicine gleaned from plants can be accessed but if they are not disclosed the country will continue to import medicine,” said Costech’s Life Science, acting Manager, Hulda Gideon.
The conference is in line with the country’s industrialization vision.
Comments
About Author
