Innovation and knowledge in the ALBA

By:Noel Manzanares Blanco

The VIII Summit of the Alliance Bolivarian for the Towns of Our America-treaty of Trade of the Towns (ALBA-TCP) that sesioned in Havana by the middle of this December, afirm that yes are possible the innovation and the knowledge in favor of the majorities.

In fact, the first day of December, in Estoril, Portugal, concluded the Ibero-American XIX Summit on the topic "Innovation and Knowledge".

The document, denominated Declaration of Lisbon, emanated of it, recognized its importance to eradicate the poverty and to improve the health of the towns.

Nevertheless, this Declaration, in its agreement 27, pleads for the substantial increment of capital of the Interamerican Bank of Development (IDB) and of the World Bank (BM), to assure that have enough resources for the financing for the development. There the problem resides.

How to aspire to that the innovation and the knowledge contribute to the human improvement starting from banks that are responsible for the international financial disorder?

Another qualitatively different offer is in the group ALBA-TCP. The agreements of the Final Declaration of its VIII Summit, demonstrate this way.

For example, were approved the Plans of Action of political educational and strategic for the Grannacional Project ALBA-education that contemplate the characteristics, principles, purposes and contents defined in precedent agreements.

Also, to extend in a systematic way the educational services in the countries members until reaching the total covering, in order to guarantee the access to the universal primary education, and to advance in the access to the secondary.

Another purpose is to constitute the Net of Science, Technology and Innovation that facilitates to foment capacities for the generation and transfer of knowledge and technologies in key sectors for the sustainable socioeconomic development.

It has remembered to promote projects directed to achieve that the knowledge becomes new products and services that are used in a combined way, among the countries of the ALBA-TCP.

Also, to strengthen the coordination and agreement of political in the sphere of the technological sovereignty, as well as the concretion of actions that gradually facilitate the access of the populations in the countries members from the Alliance to the services of telecommunications.

Without place to doubts, the emanated actions of the VIII Summit ALBA-TCP announce the employment of the innovation and the knowledge in function of the towns.