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Programme for Biosafety Systems

The NCST has been implementing the Programme for Biosafety Systems (PBS). This is a programme that is promoting the adoption and use of biotechnology. To enhance Malawi’s future development and economic growth, the National Commission for Science and Technology is promoting biotechnology as one of the tools to address poverty, hunger and disease. To guide development and use of modern biotechnology in the country, NCST has facilitated development of the necessary legal and policy instruments Read more…

By Lucky Fatch, ago

Is Malawi transforming into a Knowledge Society? By Gift A. Kadzamira

A Knowledge Society (KS) is economically revolutionary as it promotes the free flow and distribution of information and knowledge which is necessary for growth and innovation. This in turn, provides organizations not only with new market opportunities, but also stimulates cultural change and the ability to build learning organizations. (Quast, 2012). A KS values the creation, dissemination and effective use of knowledge, and has the institutions, infrastructure, norms, social interactions and culture that support it. Read more…

By Lucky Fatch, ago

Call for Applications: Future Earth Young Scientists Networking Conference on Integrated Science

Early career scientists are invited to submit applications for participation in a Networking Conference on Integrated Science. The aim is to bring together creative multidimensional, interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary perspectives to address the complex topic. Early Career Scientists will reflect on the changing role of science and the role of science in transforming to a more sustainable world – questioning key assumptions, theories and models underlying the current research. The Future Earth Young Scientists Networking Conference Read more…

By Lucky Fatch, ago

NCST hosts interactive IST-Africa H2020 Workshop on ICT-39

NCST, on 12th November 2014, hosted an interactive IST-Africa H2020 Workshop focused on ICT-39 in Malawi. IST-Africa (http://www.ist-africa.org/) organised a series of Horizon 2020 Workshops in Malawi, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Burundi during November 2014, specifically focused on raising awareness of opportunities under the ICT-39 Call International partnership building in low and middle-income countries with a deadline of 14 April 2015. National Commission for Science and Technology (NCST) as the partner in Malawi for the Read more…

By Lucky Fatch, ago

COMESA Innovation Awards 2014/15 – Call for nominations

  BACKGROUND The COMESA Innovation Awards was launched in 2013 to celebrate the Africa Union 50th Anniversary. The Awards are aimed at recognizing and celebrating individuals and institutions that have used science, technology and innovation to advance the regional integration agenda. The inaugural Innovation Awards were successfully given at the 17th Summit of the COMESA Heads of States and Government held in February 2014 in Kinshasa DR. Congo. This focus of the 2014-15 Awards will be on new products, Read more…

By Lucky Fatch, ago