Science and technology Policy for Sri Lanka?

Sri Lankan scientists have begun work on a detailed strategy to implement the country's first national science and technology policy.

It calls for increasing investment in science from 0.13 per cent of the country's GDP to 1.5 per cent by 2016, and its objectives include the promotion of basic and applied sciences for national development, sustainable resource management and adaptation to climate change.

"We are putting together an integrated action plan," Nalini Ratnasiri, chair of Sri Lanka's National Science and Technology Commission (NASTEC) and a zoology professor at the Open University of Sri Lanka, told SciDev.Net.