Introducing SciDev.Net

Every time I discover a flourishing science website, I am encouraged that the audience and appetite for science and science news are stable and growing. One such discovery is SciDev.Net, which brings you science and technology content for and from the developing world. If you consider yourself an informed person, you might want to test just how much you really know about the world of science, from Vietnam and South Africa to Peru. SciDev.Net’s statement of purpose is as follows: “SciDev.Net – the Science and Development Network – is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing reliable and authoritative information about science and technology for the developing world. “Through our website SciDev.Net we give policymakers, researchers, the media and civil society information and a platform to explore how science and technology can reduce poverty, improve health and raise standards of living around the world. “We also build developing countries’ capacity for communicating science and technology through our regional networks of committed individuals and organisations, practical guidance and specialist workshops.” Stories range from water sanitation and helping the poor to overcome food price hikes to health research, science journalism and opinion articles. It’s an eye-opening editorial mix, and one that UCSF staff interested in advancing health worldwide™ should be reading as a matter of course. Science Café is taking a holiday break this week. We will be back on Friday, July 11. And be on the lookout for an exciting, new, UCSF-sponsored international science website that debuts during the Euroscience conclave starting July 18.