From Nature:
White House to send scientists as envoys.
The administration of US President Barack Obama is ramping up plans to develop scientific and technological partnerships with Muslim-majority countries.
The move follows a June speech by Obama at Cairo University in Egypt, when he promised to appoint regional science envoys, launch a fund to support technological development and open centres of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and southeast Asia. So far, the science-envoy plan is closest to getting off the ground, say White House officials, who see it as part of a broader drive to improve relations with the Islamic world.
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