High-Ranking East African Officials Describe Science-Driven Efforts for Stability and Economic Growth

Five neighboring East African nations are moving to address poverty, environmental degradation, and other problems by undertaking ambitious efforts to collaborate in developing their expertise in science and technology.

High-ranking science policy leaders from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda, in a public discussion at AAAS, detailed work by their governments and the government of Burundi to use science diplomacy and regional cooperation to address a range of challenges, from wildlife conservation and management of natural resources to building a regional fiber-optic network and an educational system that can provide S&T training to serve their nations and others in Africa.

The countries are sharing in the growing global interest in international science cooperation, using formal treaties, alignment of national policies, and informal networks to bring those ideas to bear on issues that in the past have weakened individual nations and fanned regional tensions.

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Author: Edward W. Lempinen