What we do

Financial Times journalist, Andrew Jack, interviews SciDev.Net director Nick Ishmael Perkins about the specialist media role that SciDev.Net plays in bringing the worlds of science and development together through news and analysis from across the globe. Andrew Jack is a trustee of SciDev.Net.

SciDev.Net's website is the world’s leading source of reliable and authoritative news, views and analysis on information about science and technology for global development.

We engage primarily with development professionals, policymakers, researchers, the media and the informed public.

我们的主办公室位于伦敦,但我们有七个版本:Sub-Saharan Africa English,Sub-Saharan Africa French,South Asia,拉丁美洲和加勒比海,South-East Asia & Pacific,中东和北非Global. Between us we manage a worldwide network of registered users, advisors, consultants and freelance journalists who drive our activities and vision.

SCIDEV.NET是一家公司有限的公司,受保证和在英格兰和威尔士的注册慈善机构(注册慈善机构编号1089590)。

Vision

Our mission is to help individuals and organisations apply evidence and insights from science and technology to decision-making in order to have a positive impact on equitable and sustainable development and poverty reduction.

Strategic objectives

的小狗ose of our strategy for 2013–2017 is to encourage science and technological awareness in policies, programmes and projects that contribute to the wellbeing of the poor in the developing world. We hope to achieve this by facilitating access to information that is useful and trustworthy, as well as supporting the capacity to deliver and sustain this mainstreaming strategy.

在我们的新战略重点中,我们将承担核心业务能力,以召集科学界,主流发展利益相关者和发展中国家的公共政策。

Based on research around our Global Review 2012 there are four key supporting factors that SciDev.Net can provide to facilitate the mainstreaming of more science and technology evidence for development.

Our work provides:

  • 访问有兴趣支持全球南方穷人福祉的受众访问准确,可理解的信息
  • 研究结果分析,探索社会经济的影响并促进当地的相关性
  • Capacity to support and sustain uptake of research, including working with partners to provide specialist training on communicating science
  • 与科学和技术拥护者关键关系的空间和激励措施

Editorial values

A commitment to accuracy
准确性是至关重要的。净,所以我们strive to make sure that our output is well sourced, based on sound evidence and presented clearly. We avoid speculation and endeavour to be honest about the limits of our knowledge. We ensure accuracy by checking and crosschecking facts and figures, as well as by using reputable sources.

A commitment to fairness
scidev.net在与我们内容中所展现的贡献者,观众以及人民和机构的交往中,一切努力都保持开放,诚实和直截了当。作为媒体,我们了解我们的法律义务并尊重机密性。在我们的产出中代表的个人和组织将始终有权答复。我们有一个强大的投诉程序。

对公正性的承诺
公正性是我们工作的关键,因此可以在我们所有的编辑输出中应用。在可能的情况下,我们努力避免在有争议的主题上偏见。我们相信社论的完整性和独立性。我们的社论公正性不受政治或商业压力的影响。我们的资金安排不会影响我们的编辑决策。

A commitment to respecting privacy
我们认为,我们所有的听众都有隐私和尊严的权利。我们在何处创建自己的多媒体内容或拍照,我们向人们询问同意的人。我们不做秘密录音。未经贡献者同意,我们不会将贡献者的个人详细信息,评论或个人信息传递给第三方。我们尊重根据1998年《联合国数据保护法》的法律义务。

对公平和可持续发展的承诺
我们希望看到一个更公平的世界,并认识到福祉在全球发展中的重要性。最重要的是,Scidev.net致力于支持科学和技术可以通过获取和审讯所基于的知识来对全球发展做出的贡献。

History

SCIDEV.NET源自《自然》杂志的新闻组在Wellcome Trust和英国国际发展部(DFID)的经济援助下建立的项目。SCIDEV.NET网站于2001年12月3日正式启动。

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Scidev.net于2001年2月与InterAcademy小组合作,与Interacademy小组合作,于2001年2月在Tobago的媒体上进行科学。此后,我们与合作伙伴合作,为全球各地的记者和其他专业传播者提供众多专业科学传播研讨会。

SciDev.Net has embarked on a new strategic era (2013–2017) that consolidates SciDev.Net’s achievements over the previous 12 years of its existence.

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