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Nature 404, 109 (9 March 2000) | doi:10.1038/35004711

Open Innovation Challenges

Re-reforming Unesco

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The organization's director-general should focus more closely on core goals.

History suggests that Koïchiro Matsuura, director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) since late last year, has a few years in which to improve it before he risks being taken in by its own propaganda and becomes as inward-looking as his most recent predecessors. A forthright speech last week (see page 113) shows that he means well.