Building Partnerships ATPS is building partnerships with regional African institutions such as the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank, the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP), and the African Union. Outside Africa, we are collaborating with the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies (UNU/INTECH), scholars at Cambridge University in Britain, Aalborg University in Denmark, and Stanford University in the United States.The donors supporting ATPS programs at the moment are the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the International Development Research Centre of Canada, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, World Bank, the African Development Bank, OPEC Fund and Coca-Cola Eastern Africa. We hope others will soon join this consortium. The Board and Management of ATPS hope that the UNDP HDR 2001 and the voice of the Africa's political leaders will give additional weight to our programs and clear the way for the flow of the much needed resources.We urge you to be an ATPS partner and to help us improve the policy environment for Africa's technological advancement. The tasks ahead are enormous but ATPS is uniquely positioned to face the challenges and to use its expanding network to improve science and technology policy-making in Africa. |
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