The global pandemic underlines the relevance of scientific knowledge and technologies in protecting health and sustaining economic and social wellbeing. Science, technology and innovation are powerful drivers of change and play a key role in transforming economies and driving sustainable development. LDCs cannot afford to lag behind in the new wave of rapid technological change. Instead, they need to harness the ‘latecomer advantage’ to leapfrog and directly adopt the latest and most effective STI solutions. The UN Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries (UN Technology Bank) is mandated to support LDCs to access relevant technologies and strengthen STI capacities in the world’s most vulnerable 46 countries.  

“The Doha Programme of Action for the LDCs has confirmed the UN Technology Bank’s role as a focal point for LDCs to strengthen their STI capacity towards building sustainable productive capacities and promoting structural economic transformation”, Dr. Taffere Tesfachew, Acting Managing Director of the UN Technology Bank highlighted, “This report and related discussion are a key step to support knowledge and best practices sharing around STI in LDCs. We call upon Governments, development partners and other UN entities to join us in this ambitious agenda and take actions at the national, regional and global level”.
 

For a long time, WEDC has maintained close ties with the UN Technology Bank. The two parties focus on "supporting the development of the LDCs" and "obtaining eco-design technologies for sustainable development", and intend to support the LDCs to increase their capacity and competitiveness of science, technology and innovation by providing access to technology solutions and capacity development to meet the demands of technology and innovation and towards the achievement of the SDGs.

Source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/arXK78LmlO1lhFw_l0vXPw