BRICS endorse more cooperation in science, technology

By Munyaradzi Makoni. The BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – have consolidated their cooperation at a first ministerial meeting on science, technology and innovation. The nations agreed to support people-centred science for the public good in a technologically changing global environment. The meeting, held in Kleinmond outside Cape Town on 10-11 February to discuss joint science programmes, adopted a declaration to strengthen cooperation in science, technology and innovation, or STI, within the BRICS framework. More...