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type The type of the column . It is a logical next step beyond the Oslo symposium of last January , which discussed the role of the private sector in enhancing productive capacity in the least developed countries . While there is almost universal agreement on the importance of institutions and good governance in economic , social and political development , improvements in these areas can be made only if the specific conditions of the countries involved are fully taken into account . It is precisely to consider remedies to these sorts of self-reinforcing external headwinds to the implementation of successful domestic measures to development that the holistic approach of the Conference is directed . But if we do n't get more of our young people involved in technology and engineering soon , we 'll be confronting a frightening pros-pect : our technologically advanced world will become an unmanageable tangle of high-tech gadgets more akin to the dirt roads and foot bridges of centuries ago than the information super highway we all so loudly declared just five years ago .