This issue of Development Dialogue is largely devoted to science and technology for development as conceived in the broader context of the ideas inspiring the demand for Another Development. It is hoped that it will serve as a contribution both to the forthcoming United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD), and to the ongoing debate about the International Development Strategy for the ‘Eighties and Beyond’.
The material presented is based on the proceedings of the 1978 Dag Hammarskjold Seminar on ‘The Development of Third World Autonomous Capacity in Science and Technology’. The main purpose of the seminar was to investigate how Another Development, need-oriented, self-reliant, endogenous, ecologically sound and based on structural transformations, should find expression in science and technology policies, focusing on the need for countries and institutions in the Third World to develop their autonomous scientific and technological capacity in a spirit of collective self-reliance.