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PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST
WHO has joined with the Open Society Institute
and a number of other public and
private partners to link scientists in the developing
world to leading scientific journals, databases,
discussion groups, and funding sources. Leaders of the
project hope it will provide a much-needed boost to efforts
designed to find solutions to the health problems of the
world's poorest countries.
"If the researchers and scientists [of the developing
world] can read the same journals, search the same
databases, join in the discussion groups, compete for the
same grants as their colleagues from wealthier countries,
it will strengthen their own research, bring them into the
international community of researchers and eventually
improve dissemination of their own results," said Dr. Gro
Harlem Brundtland, director-general of the World Health
Organization.
Researchers, teachers, and students in Armenia, Ghana,
Mali, Mozambique, Mongolia, Uganda, Tanzania, and
Uzbekistan will be the first to benefit from the project.
Within the next two years, WHO hopes to have 30 to 40
countries enrolled in the program.
"Life-Saving Scientific Information Boost Via Internet to
Health Researchers in Africa, Central Asia, and Eastern
Europe." WHO News Release 12/5/2000.
"Developing World Scientists to Get Internet Boost."
Reuters 12/5/2000.
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