ICSTI anga ari nhengo kubvira 1984.
Yakavambwa muna Chikumi 1984 semutsivi weICSU Abstracting Board, International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), semubatanidzwa weInternational Council for Science (ICSU) uye yepasirese isiri-for-profit nhengo sangano, inofambisa kushandira pamwe. pakati pevose vane chekuita neruzivo rwesainzi nechinangwa chekuvandudza kushanda kwetsvakiridzo yesainzi. Inoshandisa zvizere chinzvimbo chayo chakasarudzika pamharadzano yekugadzira ruzivo rwesainzi uye tekinoroji, kurongeka, kuparadzira uye kushandisa, kuona uye kuita pane zvakakosha, pasina hurongwa hwezvematongerwo enyika kana hwekutengesa.
ICSTI ichagadzirisa madhiraivha ekuchinja uye kuita nhanho dzine chekuita neazvino uye mune ramangwana kutaurirana kwenyanzvi. Pakati peizvi ndiko kugonesa hunyanzvi, kuongororwa kwemhedzisiro yetekinoroji mitsva pakukurukurirana kwesainzi yekutsvaga, uye zvinodiwa nevashandisi veruzivo 'chinotevera chizvarwa'. ICSTI ichashingairira kusimudzira nekupa foramu yekutsinhana kweruzivo, hunyanzvi uye kunzwisisa, uye kugadzira mukana wekubatana kwesangano nekubatana munharaunda yese yesainzi nehunyanzvi ruzivo (STI).
