A "technology bank" could provide critical support to the world's least developed countries as they work to build strong science, says a high-level UN panel that included five TWAS Fellows.

"Big data" is transforming research, and the values of "open data" can assure that the developing world is part of this effort. Now TWAS and IAP have joined a team of major international science organizations to provide important research and policy insight.

Segenet Kelemu leads icipe, a thriving African research centre that is committed to innovation for sustainable agriculture. The centre works to control the damage caused by some insects and to enhance the benefits of others.

Segenet Kelemu, direttore del Centro Internazionale per lo Studio della Fisiologia e l'Ecologia degli Insetti (Icipe) di Nairobi, Kenia, è oggi (25 settembre) a Trieste per parlare di agribiotech e sviluppo sostenibile nei paesi in via di sviluppo. Ad animare con lei la tavola rotonda della TWAS: Michele Morgante dell'Universita di Udine e Alessandro Vitale dell'IBBA - CNR di Milano.

Fellowship opportunities for MS or PhD students from sub-Saharan Africa enrolled at a US or sub-Saharan African university

TWAS has joined with South Africa to provide the developing world, and especially Africa, with a surge of new scientific expertise in an effort to keep talent from migrating away. The application deadline is 2 October.

Segenet Kelemu, illustre scienziata africana e direttore dell'icipe di Nairobi (Kenya), parteciperà alla tavola rotonda che la TWAS organizza a Trieste Next 2015. Insieme a Michele Morgante (Università di Udine) e ad Alessandro Vitale (Ibba-Cnr), Kelemu dialogherà col pubblico sull'uso delle biotecnologie agricole in Africa e nei paesi in via di sviluppo.

Segenet Kelemu, an influential African science leader, will lead TWAS' roundtable at Trieste Next 2015. Joined by two Italian scholars, the roundtable will explore how innovation in bioscience can help feed Africa and other developing regions.

At the 26th TWAS General Meeting in Vienna, prominent voices on sustainable development will detail how scientific research is indispensable to managing rapid growth throughout the developing world.

TWAS research grant awardee Emmanuel Unuabonah, from Nigeria, is testing innovative and inexpensive materials that could purify water and provide his fellow citizens better health.