of Action was planned and a detailed questionnaire prepared by the secretariat mailed to the focal points in the member States. Its results will be presented to the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts for Science and Technology Development during its meeting in 1985. 45. The secretariat undertook a mission from 28 May to 15 June 1984 to Rwanda, to the UDEAC, headquarters at Bangui, and to Mali to work out measures for the diffusion of the various models of rural technologies relevant to the problems and needs of the rural population in Africa, considered at the second meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts for Science and Technology Development and to study their national legislation and machinery for regulating imports of technology. There was also a secretariat study tour to the European Patent Office (EPO) head­ quarters at Munich and the Hague. As immediate follow-up activities, ECA and EPO agreed to consider for 1985: training an ECA officer in the use and dissemination of technical information contained in patent documentation; the possibility of holding a seminar in Addis Ababa on "how to use the technical information contained in patents", organized jointly by ECA and EPO;and the possibility of providing an EPO adviser for the training course organized by ARCEDEM in Nigeria. 46. As a continuation of TCDC, under the second grant provided by the Indian Government to set up a training and demonstration centre on appropriate rural technologies, a secretariat mission visited Kenya, Senegal and Morocco, with an expert from India and is now making the final choice of host country. The centre is to be established in 1985 and, - 22 - besides demonstration and training, will allow replication and populariza­ tion of the technologies selected, with the help of local entrepreneurs. 47. In implementation of the Lagos Plan of Action, the secretariat 
**Analysis**
The text primarily focuses on the development of rural technologies in Africa, the diffusion of patent information, and the establishment of a training and demonstration centre on appropriate rural technologies. These activities are all related to the development of science and technology in Africa, with a specific focus on rural areas.

**Category**
Science and technology, Economic development