Considers the implications of international copyright laws, emphasizing their effect on developing countries, where low-cost reproduction methods potentially make available works that are needed in education and technology--if copyright and royalty problems can be solved. (Author/AL)

Steps must be taken to enhance diets in order to ensure proper nutrition and total health as well as to avert periodic famine brought on by natural and man-made cataclysms. Some concrete technical, educational, economic and legislative proposals are advanced. (Author/RH)

Described are the efforts being made in the Sudan to develop a significant scientific community. (SL)

Outlines the history of scientific support in the Philippines and suggests that scientists have an important part to play in social and political change by providing empirical and analytic studies in the social and natural sciences. (AL)

Describes programs at the universities of Zurich and Lausanne for training students from non-industralized countries in architectural design, the construction of buildings, and town planning. (SL)

Proposed is a systems analysis approach to managing the economic, cultural, and scientific development of Third World nations. (SL)

Discusses the development of the status of science and technology in the Latin American countries. (SL)

Discussed is the recycling of agricultural residues, either through fermentation or bioconversion processes, to help meet the energy requirements of the developing countries. (BT)

An editorial is presented on the effect of computer technology on informatics policies in developing countries. (BB)

Discusses the effect of technological change on the sociological structure of a developing country. Uses Turkey as an example. (MLH)

The main purpose of the article is to define a new field of the economy by seeking to determine all the needs which may surround a productive activity devised to be of service to man and what the post-industrial stage of scientific technology means to developing countries. (BR)

Argues for the development of national planning policy concerning scientific research and technological advancement in Latin American countries based upon the model of Venezuela's development. (SL)

How African societies interpret science and technology in their daily life situations is discussed. The relationship that exists between socioeconomic and political concerns and the transfer of technology is examined. Suggested is a major reorientation and restructuring of science and technology at the domestic and international levels. (KR)

Discusses the past experience and the technological advances of industrialized nations, particularly Japan and the West. The relationship between industrialized and developing countries and the developmental process are also discussed. (HM)