HISTORY OF The Science and development network (SciDev.net) was officially launched on 3 December 2001 by David Dixon, its founding editor who also became its first director. SciDev.Net was founded as a science news service for the developing world. The birth of SciDev.Net resulted from a project set up by news staff at the journal Nature, with financial assistance from the Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom, to report on the world conference on Science, in Budapest, in 1999. From these initial steps it has now grown to boast six regional editions around the world.
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South Asia edition launched in 2006. Now combined with the previous South East Asia and Pacific edition, to create today’s AsiaPacific edition
Sub-Saharan Africa edition launched in 2002
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Latin America and Caribbean edition launched in 2003, published in Spanish
