Science & Development Bulletin monitors science development and highlights the role of science and technology in establishing knowledge-based economy in the Islamic world.Issue No.49 – March 2009

Islamic scientific channel
Science and Business (Just for Fun, and learn!)

Islamic scientific channel
Virtual tour in US $7.9 billion Qatar-based Sidra Medical and Research Center


Latest News
First Iranian-made scientific satellite launched
Iran launched into orbit its first domestically produced scientific satellite from within Iran making it the eighth to have independently launched a home-made satellite.
Boost for science cooperation between central asian countries
Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) has approved the establishment of ECO science and technology office in Kazakhstan in abid to promote science cooperation between ECO member countries.
 

Studies and Reports
Education Under Attack: A global study on targeted political and military violence against education staff, students, teachers, union and government officials and institutions

Coping with water scarcity: What role for biotechnologies?
It focuses on the use of biotechnologies to increase the efficiency of water use in agriculture as well as water-related applications of micro-organisms, in wastewater treatment and in inoculation of crops and forest trees with mycorrhizal fungi.
The potential to exploit use of building-integrated photovoltaics in countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council
 

Feature
Hopes and fears: Rebuilding science in Iraq
Iraq is rebuilding its science base but fear of attack means refugee academics are slow to return, reports Brendan O'Malley.
 

Opinion
Ideas, Not Money, Alleviate Poverty

Philip Emeagwali, the father of the Internet and the winner of Gordon Bell Prize, the Nobel Prize of supercomputing, argues that the potential for progress and poverty alleviation in Africa relies on capital generated from the power within our minds, not from our ability to pick minerals from the ground or seek debt relief and foreign assistance.

 

Spotlight


Call for action…. Reconstruction campaign for Islamic university of Gaza, Palestine

The Prophet Mohamed said: "Seeking knowledge is a mandate for every Muslim (male and female)." (Sahih Bukhari)





Making the science work for the Ummah’s need
Simple and cheap method for turning raw biomass into biofuel developed
Researchers have developed a two-step method to convert the cellulose in raw biomass into a promising biofuel using a unique solvent system - not corrosive, dangerous, expensive or stinky.
 Simple and cheap method for strengthening buildings against earthquakes
Civil engineers have developed an effective, practical, easy to do, simple, inexpensive method to strengthen buildings that have a flaw making them dangerously vulnerable to earthquakes.
 Neem seeds extracts could limit malaria spread in poor countries
Scientists have showed that spreading ground up seeds from the neem tree, which grows locally, in the ponds twice a week, can reduce the mosquito population by about 50 percent

Netwatch
 
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 Technology transfer tactics

 Arab training forum

 New Biomedical Sciences Search Engine VADLO

 Free e-books
 

Meetings and conferences

International Fetal (Perinatal) Medicine Congress

Date: 2-5 March 2009
Location: United Arab Emirates

2nd International Conference of Natural Resources in Africa "Sustainable Development of Natural Resources in the Nile Basin Countries"

Date: 11 -12 May, 2009
Location: Cairo, Egypt

Training Programme on “Sustainable Use of Genetic Resources, Applications to Environmentally Friendly Aquaculture and Fisheries”

Date: April 7-16, 2009
Location: Cairo, Egypt

International conference on medical and aromatic plants...Present and future prospects

Date: 27-29 October 2009
Location: Cairo, Egypt

International congress on food and nutrition " "Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology"

Date: 22- 25 April 2009
Location: Antalya, Turkey

2009 COMSTECH training courses

First International conference of mycops "Mycovision in Agriculture"

Date: November 9-11, 2009
Location: Institute of Mycology & Plant Pathology, University of the Punjab Lahore, Pakistan

The 3rd International Conference of Genetic Engineering& Biotechnology Research Division "Biotechnology for Better Life"

Date: 3-5 November 2009
Location: Cairo, Egypt,

The 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Modelling and Computation and The 5th East Asia SIAM Conference

Date: June 8-11, 2009
Location: Brunei Darussalam

The ninth annual international conference: environmental economies and globalization

Date: 20-23 April 2009
Location: Jordan

International Training Workshop "design and evaluation of prtessurized irrigation systems"

Date: March 3-7, 2009
Location: Lahore-Pakistan

The Tenth Asian Bioethics Conference & the Fourth UNESCO Asia-Pacific School of Ethics Bioethics Round-Table "Bioethics in Asia: Bringing Ethics into Practice."

Date: 26-29 April, 2009
Location: Tehran, Iran

Women and scientific research for development

Date: 15-17 April 2009
Location: Assiut, Egypt

The International Conference on Materials in Jordan

Date: 4 - 6 March 2009
Location: German-Jordanian University, Jordan


Fellowships, awards and & training opportunities

2009 ICGEB funding programmes


COMSTECH Awards for Excellence in Science and Technology

Deadline: April 30, 2009

RSM fellowship programme 2009

Deadline: 28 February 2009
Organization: world Bank

IFAR 2009 Fellowship Programme Call For Applications

Deadline: 3 March 2009

 
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