Hdr- Botswana 2005
Botswana Human Development Report 2005 HARNESSING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Published for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) i Copyright- 2005 By the United Nations Development Programme, Gaborone, Botswana Tel: (+267) 3952121, Fax: (+267) 3956093 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the United Nations Development Programme, Botswana Concept,editing and design by OP Advertising (Pty) Ltd, Gaborone, Botswana Tel: (+267) 319 0317 Fax: (+267) 390 0396 Printed by Printing and Publishing Company of Botswana Gaborone, Botswana Tel: (+267) 3912844 ISBN 99912-0-5020 ii Foreword We live in an era in which knowledge is decisive in separating winners subsistence. Similar needs can be found in food processing and other from losers. It does not matter whether we look at these polar outcomes forms of light manufacturing. – winning and losing – at the level of nations, firms, or individuals: Knowledge is a necessary requirement for winning in today’s closely I should not be understood to be making the case for a focus on integrated and competitive world. Knowledge expands the achievement technologies that would trap Botswana in low value production. Mine is possibilities of those who have it. Lack of it diminishes them. a case for inclusive technological investment, and for access to both new and old technologies for poor people. Our advocacy, our The disparities in development outcomes between prosperous and rich educational, institutional, policy and infrastructure responses to nations, and between rich and poor individuals, are underpinned Botswana’s technology needs should not engender the exclusion of foremost by differential access to knowledge and information.
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