Science for progress

Last February the United Nations brought together at Geneva probably the world's greatest assembly of scientists to discuss the application of science and technology for the benefit of the less developed areas. This double issue is based in major part on material from these discussions. In the special article below Ritchie Calder, winner of Unesco's Kalinga Science Prize (1961) highlights the work of the UNCSAT conference and its implications for the new nations tomorrow. He is now completing a full-length analysis of the meetings, shortly to appear under the title "World of Opportunity" as Volume I of an 8-volume condensation of the UNCSAT conference to be published later this year by the United Nations.

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