Defining development as some combination of improving the standard of living and quality of life, meeting basic needs, and increasing per capita gross national product, this article discusses the role science and technology can play in developing countries. Considers technology transfer, appropriate technology, and other issues. (JN)

Explains the purpose of the Conference on Science and Technology for Development to be held in Vienna in 1979. Clarifies and comments on the practical problems that affected the preparation for the Conference, and on the relations between the scientific community and the Conference. (GA)

Maintains that the overpopulation without adequate resources in Asia, Latin America and other parts of the world can be catastrophic to all the countries in the world. Efforts to provide aid to developing nations have been inadequate. International cooperation for aid is very much needed now. (PS)

Discusses the potential importance and the major issues of the United Nations (UN) Conference on Science and Technology for Development to be held in 1979. (SL)

Argues for the 1979 World Conference on Science and Technology for Development to review "real" issues relating to the internal causes of scientific and technological backwardness of the less developed countries. (SL)

Discusses the problem faced by underdeveloped countries of making the right choices about the application of science and technology. The main issues facing Latin American countries center on how much research they should undertake, how much technology they should innovate and adopt, and how much they should continue to import. (Author/JR)

"Independent Research and Development" for the Defense Department costs United States taxpayers about one billion dollars a year. Facts about the program are hard to uncover, but two members of Cornell University's Program on Science, Technology, and Society have investigated the program and conclude that Congress should exert greater control.…

After defining technology and technology transfer, the author discusses product-embodied, process-embodied and person-embodied technologies. The five major antagonisms at play in international technology transfers are related and the manner by which a country may select, choose, and adopt the appropriate technology is investigated. (BT)