The Project's main objective is to generate science and technology policies and strategies for the Americas in the priority areas defined by the COMCYT.

The policies and recommendations that result from this project will provide the substantive agenda for the Hemispheric Meeting of Ministers and High Officials in Science and Technology scheduled for November 2004. This agenda will enable both the review and update of mandates formulated at the last Ministerial meeting in 1996, and the formulation of new mandates to strengthen science and technology development in the Americas, in the 21st century.

The project has five components, the first four of which respond to the following COMCYT-defined priority areas and a fifth component on consolidation

• Science, Technology and Innovation to Increase Competitiveness in the Productive Sector; held in Buenos Aires, Argentina; November 17-19 2003

• Scientific and Technological Development in the Americas, held in Quito, Ecuador; December 10 - 12, 2004.

• Popularization of Science, took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; February 02 -05, 2004.

• Science and Technology for Social Development; took place in Kingston, Jamaica; March 03 -0 5, 2004.

• Consolidation of Hemispheric Policies in Science and Technology, to be held in OAS Headquarters in Washington D.C. on April 14, 2004.

The fifth component, Consolidation of Hemispheric Policies in Science and Technology will have a different procedure, since the official COMCYT delegates will revise the proposals obtained from the workshops and elaborate a final document that will consolidate the Hemispheric Policies in Science and Technology. 

 This document will be analyzed in the fifth workshop and subsequently revised and discussed by the COMCYT during its Fourth Ordinary Meeting which then will remit the document to the First Hemispheric Meeting of Ministers and High Officials of Science and Technology in the Scope of CIDI. 

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