Annual Report 2010 - Comsats

to befittingly encompass their
research undertakings and other
developmental activities.
These profiles concisely reflected
the various aspects of scientific
activities and programmes;
technical facilities and capacities;
and the international
collaboration of COMSATS’
Network members. The six
profiles of the Network members
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included in the 2 Volume of the
Newsletter were of: Higher
Institute for Applied Sciences and
Technology (HIAST), Syria;
International Centre for Climate &
Environment Sciences (ICCES), China; Centro Internacional de Fisica (CIF),
Colombia; Embrapa Agrobiologia, Brazil; Tanzania Industrial Research and
Development Organization (TIRDO), Tanzania; and International Centre for
Environmental and Nuclear Sciences (ICENS), Jamaica. For the first three issues of
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3 volume, profiles of National Research Centre (NRC), Egypt; National
Mathematical Centre (NMC), Nigeria; and International Centre for Material Science
and Technology (ICMST), Ghana would be included.
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Another highlight of the 2 volume of the Newsletter was the coverage given to a set of
three major activity-reports of COMSATS in the alternate issues under the section
“Special Feature”. These sections featured: Visit Report of Executive Director to four
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member states (January-February 2010); 13 Meeting of the COMSATS
Coordinating Council (May-June 2010); and Visit of COMSATS’ Delegation to
Malaysia (September-October 2010).
In the requests for contributions, regularly sent to the Centres of Excellence, new
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sections have been proposed to be included in the 3 volume of COMSATS
Newsletter. The inclusion of such sections and their extent of coverage would depend
on the level of inputs received. The support of the Network members, in this regard, is
of utmost importance in order to improve the scope, utility and impact of COMSATS
Newsletter.
Bi-annual Journal, Science Vision
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As per the suggestions made during the 12 meeting of
the COMSATS Coordinating Council, COMSATS
resumed the publication of its scientific journal “Science
Vision” and was given a thematic character to individually
address the dominant issues faced by the developing
world through Science and Technology. Scientists,
researchers, policy-makers and young scholars from
S&T and R&D institutions and national and international
academies of sciences were invited to write for the journal
in line with its theme.
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