Mozambique Strategy of Science, Technology and Inovation

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Mozambique Strategy of Science, Technology and
Inovation
Republic of Mozambique
Gaborone, 24 September 2008
Ministry of Science and Technology
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Our Objective

• To Share with you our vision on the development
  of Science, Technology and innovation in
  Mozambique
  

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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The vision of GoM on ST

• Put Science and Technology as the prima
  productive force for the Development of
  Mozambique
  
• Scientific Research should be geared to
  contribute to the poverty eradication and for the
  increase exports.

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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Science and Technology is a transversal issue. It
requires good inter-institutional coordination
and cooperation
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Ministry of Science and Technology
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Science and Technology Sector

• 2005 - establishment of the Ministry of Science
  and Technology as the central organ of the
  Government that, in accordance with the
  principles, aims, policies and plans defined by
  the Government
• determines,
• regulates,
• plans,
• co-ordinates,
• develops,
• monitors and evaluates the activities dealing
  with science and technology.

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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MCT Vision for ST
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Ministry of Science and Technology
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The Strategic Areas

• Vertical areas
• Human Resource Development
• Education
• Agriculture
• Health
• Energy
• Marine sciences and fishing
• Construction
• Water
• Mineral resources

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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The Strategic Areas

• Cross-cutting areas
• Biotechnology
• Environment
• Ethno-botany
• Gender Equity
• HIV/Aids
• Human Resources Development
• Information and Communication Technologies

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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 Strategic Objectives
Objective 1 Foster a culture of innovation throu
ghout
Mozambican society
Objective 2 Promote grass-roots innovation and t
he use of ST-based approaches by poor and
disadvantaged communities

• Achieving this objective will include
• Popularising science and technology throughout
  Mozambican society, enabling Mozambicans to feel
  confident in participating in the knowledge and
  technology-oriented global society
• Promoting an entrepreneurial outlook and
  innovative orientation throughout the ST system
  
• Bringing awareness of science and technology and
  the role of innovation.
  
• Programmes
• Create awareness amongst the top leadership of
  the strategic role that ST can play for the
  development of the country, and of the high-level
  issues concerning ST for development
• Create and nurture professional associations and
  institutions that will promote the use of ST at
  all levels in the country
  
• Establish mechanisms for the diffusion and
  dissemination of ST information
  
• Stimulate the development, codification, and
  diffusion of locally-generated knowledge (e.g.
  through the CRCTs)
  
• Develop innovative ways of using technology in
  communicating and sharing information with
  illiterate communities (e.g. voice, video,
  animation)
• Enhance and extend the science festival,
  currently held annually in Maputo
  
• Establish mobile ST discovery centres
• Identify the innovators in society that have
  inventions and create mechanisms for them to turn
  their inventions into products.
  

• Achieving this objective will include
• Finding creative ways of encouraging the use of
  the scientific approach to solution building by
  poor and disadvantaged communities
  
• Establishing high-impact approaches and tools
  using ICTs to communicate and share information
  with illiterate communities, giving priority to
  the most vulnerable social groups.
• Programmes
• Encourage the use of the scientific approach to
  solution building in impoverished communities
  through ICT, and in particular, through
  interactive multimedia-based learning tools
• Create and deploy ICT applications to address
  specific development issues, such as learning
  tools for building storage dams and pit
  latrines
• Establish Regional Centres for Science and
  Technology (CRCTs)
  
• Undertake a research programme in the social
  sciences to determine optimal ways of promoting
  grass-roots innovation amongst impoverished
  communities
• Encourage collaborative approaches to addressing
  community problems using ST amongst impoverished
  communities
  
• Run pilot projects amongst impoverished
  communities with the aim of stimulating
  wealth-creation initiatives.

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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 Strategic Objectives
Objective 3 Promote RD and innovation within th
e industrial and public sectors
Objective 4 Promote the transfer of technology

• Achieving this objective will include
• Promoting partnerships between the public and
  private sectors to encourage innovation and the
  transfer of technology for product
  commercialisation
• Establishing facilities that will encourage the
  incubation of higher-risk, higher-gain start-up
  SMEs
  
• Stimulating excellence in multidisciplinary and
  collaborative research and innovation by
  individuals and institutions
  
• Building a capability to manage and safeguard
  intellectual property rights
  
• Strengthening SMEs and the competitiveness of
  local clusters.
  
• Programmes
• Establish incentives for public-private
  partnerships for innovation
  
• Introduce measures to stimulate the private
  sector to undertake research in partnership with
  the academic institutions
  
• Promote science parks, and local and trading
  clusters
  
• Develop a national biotechnology strategy for
  Mozambique
  
• Develop a national ethno-botanical strategy for
  Mozambique
  
• Establish a networked centre of excellence for
  biotechnology
  
• Establish a networked centre of excellence for
  ethno-botany
  
• Establish an information base for ethno-botanical
  knowledge
  
• Establish regional ST facilities with RD
  infrastructure and expertise that can be used by
  SMEs on a shared basis, thus enabling SMEs to
  engage in RD without the need for their own
  in-house infrastructure
• Raise the level of awareness amongst researchers
  of the importance of environmental sustainability.

• Programmes
• Establish the capability for technology transfer
  in the CRCTs
  
• Establish Community Technology Centres to promote
  technology transfer
  
• Identify and pilot high-impact, technology
  transfer initiatives
  
• Stimulate the development of the capability to
  adapt and absorb imported technologies,
  especially on the part of new companies
  
• Disseminate and promote information relevant to
  technology transfer to SMEs, including concerning
  technologies and services available
  
• Establish mechanisms to enable small-scale
  producers to move up the value chain
  
• Establish mechanisms to subsidise training,
  research and development for new and small
  companies
  
• Establish mechanisms to facilitate the transfer
  of new scientific knowledge from the universities
  to industry.

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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 Strategic Objectives
Objective 5 Promote the use of ICT for good gove
rnance and service delivery, and for the
diffusion of knowledge, in support of poverty
reduction and economic growth

• ICTs will
• Remove physical distances and enhance real-time
  exchange of knowledge
  
• Promote networking of institutions, individuals
  and geographic regions
  
• Promote collaboration and sharing of knowledge
  between stakeholders
  
• Introduce a new channel for service delivery
• Promote economies of scale and replication of
  developed solutions
  
• Promote transparency and openness
• Promote open and multi-directional communication.
  
  
• Programmes
• Develop a range of multimedia-based learning
  material focused on ICT knowledge and skills, for
  use by youth and by impoverished communities
  
• Establish an ST knowledge and communication
  portal
  
• Establish a government data centre
• Establish a FOSS Centre of Excellence within an
  appropriate institution
  
• Establish information technology standards,
  national platforms and management mechanisms
  
• Establish a national programme for ICT skills
  development, having a special focus on youth,
  trainers and ICT professionals
  
• Identify business models to enable lower-cost
  connectivity for citizens, Internet Access
  Centres, private sector and government
  
• Establish and scale up community access centres
• Stimulate research programmes at academic
  institutions to study low-cost access solutions
  (wireless technologies, low-cost computers,
  etc.)

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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 Strategic Objective 6
Promote human resource development at all levels
in the areas of science, technology and
innovation

• There is therefore a need to
• Promote the education of youth in the fields of
  science, engineering and technology and ICT
  
• Increase the number graduates earning advanced
  degrees in ST
  
• Stimulate the education of women in the fields of
  science, engineering, technology and ICT
  
• Reach a significant share of the economically
  active population with introductory and advanced
  ST education and training
  
• Foster the interaction and collaboration of
  Mozambican researchers with their regional and
  international counterparts.
  
• Programmes
• Establish ST scholarship programmes for MSc and
  PhD students
  
• Establish research-oriented, postdoctoral and
  sabbatical scholarship programmes
  
• Establish new post-graduate ST degree programmes
  in line with national priorities
  
• Upgrade the science laboratories at the
  universities
  
• Create ST centres of excellence at selected
  universities
  
• Upgrade the ST capability and infrastructure in
  the K-12 education system, including ST and ICT
  laboratories
  
• Promote the popularisation of science amongst
  secondary school students, and identify and
  encourage those who show particular ST talent
  
• Stimulate the development and deployment of
  informal ST learning programmes using
  interactive, multimedia-based learning tools
  
• Establish collaborative relationships with
  regional and international educational and
  research institutions
  
• Establish a programme to enable academic
  researchers to gain experience from an industrial
  environment
  
• Carry out capacity-building activities and train
  teachers in the basic sciences at all levels,
  through the CRCTs
  
• Set up extramural classes in the basic sciences
  for secondary students showing talent in the
  sciences. This should be done by the CRCTs
  

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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Strategic Objective 7
Build and improve the policy instruments,
institutions and infrastructure of the ST system

• This requires
• The addition of capabilities, capacities and
  infrastructure
  
• A review and possible restructuring of the
  components of the system of ST
  
• Greater alignment of the outputs of the system
  with national development priorities
  
• Making the system more effective and efficient in
  pursuing the goal of poverty eradication, while
  also fostering socio-economic development.
  
• Programmes
• Review the functionality and performance of the
  national ST system as a whole, to identify
  missing components, and components that need to
  be strengthened
• Re-organise the current ST institutions to
  improve the efficacy and efficiency of the
  national ST system
  
• Enhance the performance of the ST system by
  adding new capabilities and processes
  
• Improve the ICT infrastructure of the ST system
  by building a high-speed RD network
  
• Build a knowledge sharing system suitable for
  ST-based knowledge
  
• Draw up a national research agenda
• Encourage the components of the ST system to
  become learning organisations
  
• Run a technology Foresight programme for
  Mozambique
  
• Establish a Foresight capability for Mozambique
• Build the capability to respond to natural
  disasters and crises
  
• Stimulate and support the creation of additional
  ST and RD facilities on a regional basis, and
  for priority sectors, that are accessible by
  SMEs
• Develop a policy for Intellectual Property Rights.

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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 Strategic Objectives
Strategic Objective 8 Establish funding policie
s and mechanisms for research and innovation
Strategic Objective 9 Review, evaluate and enha
nce the performance of the ST system
Strategic Objective 10 Promote the mainstreamin
g of ST within all sectors

• Programmes
• Establish a national foundation for research and
  innovation
  
• Establish a National ST Coordination meeting
  consisting of MCT, CRCT, the research
  institutions, and other ST stakeholders
  
• Establish systems and forums that will engender
  confidence on the part of international funding
  partners in Mozambiques ST system
  
• Establish funding partnerships with international
  funding sources.

• Programmes
• Establish a benchmarking baseline of performance
  for the institutions in the national ST system
  
• Develop a set of indicators for measuring
  outcomes and impacts on poverty reduction that
  may be attributed to ST activities
  
• Assess the performance of the ST system at
  regular intervals on an ongoing basis
  
• Develop expertise in the MCT in areas such as
  leadership, people management, planning, and
  high-level project management, through running
  training courses.

• Programmes
• Stimulate a national debate on the crosscutting
  role of ST and the need for holistic solutions
  
• Encourage all government ministries to appreciate
  the fundamental and holistic role of STI within
  their own mandates.
  
• Establish frameworks and mechanisms to ensure
  coordination of ST activities across all
  ministries.

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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Research Approach
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Ministry of Science and Technology
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Human Resource Development Program
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Ministry of Science and Technology
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Science and Technology System
Establishes the National System of Science and
Technology to be consolidated through research
and innovation programmes but maintaining the
autonomy of individual institutions.
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Ministry of Science and Technology
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Coordination

• MCT will play a lead role in coordination
• To ensure the efficient use of ST funds
• To avoid duplication
• To promote synergies where these may exist.
• Mechanisms
• Realization of 2 National ST Coordination
  meetings
  
• One for Harmonization of the annual plan
• One for Evaluation
• Realization of ST meeting with funding and
  supporting agencies
  
• To Keep funding agencies fully appraised on
  results and accountability.
  

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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ICT Development

• ICT Policy
• Approved in December 2000
• Implementation strategy launched in October 2001
• ICT Policy Objectives
• Contributing to fight against poverty
• Expand citizens access to global network
  resources
  
• Raising efficiency and effectiveness of public
  institutions
  
• Improving governance and public administration
• Transforming Mozambique into a producer and not
  only a consumer of ICTs
  
• Linking the country into the global information
  system.
  

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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ICT Development

• ICT in education
• E-schools networking schools
• Integration of ICT in curricula of Secondary
  education (2008)
  
• Training content developer in ICT
• Integrating ICT in learning and teaching
  environment
  
• Connecting schools to internet

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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ICT Development

• ICT industry
• Computer illiteracy and equipment cost limited
  access and utilization of ICTs
  
• Necessary to promote human resources development
  and promote equipment production
  
• Option Promote solution through the Mozambique
  Communication and Technology Institute, MICTI.
  

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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ICT Development

• MICTI is
• Technology and Business Incubator
• Tool for small business development
• Entrepreneurs support services.
• Part of the Science and Technology Park concept
• Multi-disciplinary technology and industry sector
  organizations.
  
• Research and Learning Institute
• develop an innovative curriculum for developing
  ICT knowledge and skills
  
• provide accreditation facilities for
  international standards related to ICTs
  
• play a leading role in developing ICT users,
  technicians and managers in Mozambique

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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eGovernment Strategy

• eGovernment Strategy contributes to the reaching
  of goals of the
  
• Government 5 Year Plan
• PARPA
• Public Sector Reform Strategy
• ICT Policy and ICT Policy Implementation
  Strategy
  
• The strategy aims at
• Better governance, transparency and
  accountability
  
• Better integration of government sectors and
  collaboration
  
• Increased efficiency of public sector
  organizations
  
• Enhanced access to information and sharing of
  knowledge
  
• Favourable environment for economic growth and
  introduction of new services (both private and
  public)
  

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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eGovernment Strategy Implementation

• E-Gov Strategy Components
• Common Communication Platform for the Public
  Sector
  
• Human Resources Development
• Policy and Regulations
• Specific Flagship Projects
• Common Communication Platform and
  Interoperability Framework
  
• Citizen Identity Registration and Unique Identity
  Number
  
• Land and Property Management
• Local Government Horizontal Integration System
• Business Entity Registration System
• Transparent and Accountable Financial
  Transactions
  

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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Financing

• The National research fund and sectoral funds
  will be applied for the following budget lines
  
• Competitive funds for Research Projects
• Research fund for Institutional Development
• Research fund for projects requested by the
  Government
  
• Research fund to promote innovation and
  technology transfer
  
• Research fund to promote the culture of ST.

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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OUR Expectations

• Contributions and advise on the development of
  MOSTIS
  
• Advise on the implementation and the
  establishment of research linkages
  
• Provide support on resources mobilization of the
  MOSTIS
  

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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OUR Expectations

• Strengthening of on going activities
• Education
• Strategic plan for the education sector
  implemented
  
• Community centers operational countrywide
• E-Governance
• Current e-Gov programmes supported and expanded
• ICT Industry
• ICT industry supported through MICT
• Incubator and industrial park concepts
  implemented
  

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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OUR Expectations

• Activate New areas
• Support to cross cutting components
• Development of human research
• Training programs according to the existing Plan
• Support to the National research Fund
• Support to the Interactive virtual library
• Support to the creation and Management of a Mega
  databank
  
• Technology Transfer
• Support to CRCT
• Microsoft Technology Centre
• Knowledge Management Centre

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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OUR Expectations

• Support to specific programs (or cluster) program
  areas
  
• Health, HIV-AIDS
• Water, tourism, environment,
• Agriculture, food processing
• etnobotany

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Ministry of Science and Technology
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Thank you for your attention
Ministry of Science and Technology