[Jan 4]The Press Trust news story states that interaction between scientist across the border has been limited, and rightly so. "Pakistan participated for the first time in the 92-year-old Indian Science Congress, being held in Ahmedabad. The four-member Pakistani delegation will be presenting three papers in the congress, Dr Anwar Nasim, chairman of the Pakistan's National Commission on Biotechnology and a member of the delegation, told reporters in Ahmedabad." The Commission was created by Dr.Ata-ur-Rehman in 2001.
In September 2004, The Nature carried a more sensational lead on a similar event stating that verbal collaborations have ended "more than five decades of scientific impasse between the two nations." I think the two need to look at 'education' for any collaboration, even if its bound to be research on malaria and agriculture as per the news story.
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
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This country could use a library specifically for research papers and theses written in Pakistan. We already produce a "meritoriously" low # of research papers and such on the global scale. To aggravate matters there is no [publicly accessible] index available of even what is produced, let alone a comprehensive, searchable DB of all papers, etc. Maybe some institutions maintain their own private archives (and I have come across some) but data archiving and mining in this direction could use a boost. As a matter of fact, other industries could too.
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