This study was prepared with the overall guidance of Shamika N. Sirimanne, Director of the Division on Technologyand Logistics by a team comprising Dong Wu (team leader), Bob Bell, Katalin Bokor and Nadine Mizero Hakizimana.UNCTAD appreciates the valuable inputs provided by the Governments of Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil,Canada, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland andthe United States of America, as well as from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, theInternational Telecommunication Union, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and thePacific, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairsand the World Food Programme.

The publication benefited from discussions and inputs during the 2019–2020 intersessional panel of the Commissionon Science and Technology for Development (November 2019) and the twenty-third session of the Commissionon Science and Technology for Development (June 2020).

Magali Studer designed the cover. Malou Pasinos provided administrative support.