Editorial

A new tool to promote North-South exchanges

This new "Lettre" from the Institut des Sciences et des Techniques de l'Équipement et de l'Environnement pour le Développement (ISTED) succeeds the bulletin "Equipment and Development", which ceased to be published in May 1993.
Its aim is to present a new form of North-South partnership supported by leaders in the field of French development aid in conjunction with the public and private sectors involved in infrastructure projects. This partnership takes an institutional and practical form combined with a purely technical approach. In particular it co-ordinates networks of steering committees in geographical regions (West Africa, for example) or at continental or global level.
The Institute's present activities focus on organising contacts between the various networks of experts and the French representatives, for whom it disseminates information and sets up specific aid facilities.
To this end, the "Lettre de l'ISTED", will propose subjects on activities in France in those sectors of urban development, roads, transport and different infrastructure topics that have a direct bearing on the North-South partnership, and on the exchange programmes currently in progress between France and the developing countries.
But above all, ISTED aims to provide readers with practical information on available training, publications, documentation and interesting international events.
In short, a new communication tool that forms an integral part of ISTED's basic missions and consists in encouraging cultural, scientific and technical exchanges between the North and the South, and promoting French skill and expertise on a global scale.

Jean Baudoin,
President of ISTED

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