The ’Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace’ took place September 4-15, 1995 in Beijing, China. The resulting documents of the Conference are The Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action, an agenda for women’s empowerment.
UN Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing
Do It Herself: Women and Technical Innovation
Appleton, H. (ed) (1995) Do It Herself: Women and Technical Innovation, London: IT Publications.
Although women are the majority of small-scale technology users, their technical knowledge and understanding has largely been overlooked. This book tries to address that gap by investigating the contributions of women to technical innovation at a grassroots level, using 22 case studies of technical innovation by women in 16 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Human Development Report 2001
The UNDP, Human Development Report 2001: Making New Technologies Work for Human Development focused on how people, especially in developing countries, can create and use new technology to their benefit. It focuses specifically on how to form new public policies that “lead the revolutions in information and communications technology (ICTs) and biotechnology in the direction of human development.”
A Common Vision for the Future of S&T for Development
Making north-south research networks work: A contribution to the work on A Common Vision for the Future of Science and Technology for Development by the United Nations Commission for Science…
World Conference on Science for the Twenty-First Century
The World Conference on Science, held in Budapest, Hungary from 26th June to 1st July, 1999, was the first global conference on science and society in almost 20 years. The Conference sought to provide a forum for debate by the scientific community and society – including governments, business, NGOs and the general public – to address the opportunities and related ethical dilemmas that scientific developments present, and also the means of increasing social commitment to, and from, science. There was significant attention to the themes of gender and traditional knowledge in the context of science and development, but very little attention to technology and innovation directly. (Oldham, pers. comm.)
Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
Development as Freedom, New York: Alfred Knopf, 1999; Worldwide publishers: Cappelen Forlag (Norway); Carl Hanser Verlag (Germany); China People’s University Press (China); Companhia Das Letras (Brazil); Dost Publishers (Turkey); Editions Odile Jacob (France); Editorial Planeta (Spain); Europa Publishers (Hungary); Kastaniotis Editions (Greece); Mondadori Editore (Italy); Nihon Keizei Shimbun (Japan); Oxford University Press (India); Oxford University Press (UK); Prophet Press (Taiwan); Sejong Publishers (Korea); Utigeverij Contact (Holland); Zysk I Ska Publishers (Poland) and Dudaj Publishing (Albanian).
Knowledge Societies: IT for Sustainable Development
This book is the result of an investigation by the Working Group on Information Technology and Development of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development, from 1995 to 1997, into the risks and benefits of ICTs in the developing world.
A Decade of Reform: S&T Policy in China
“In 1995, and at the request of the Chinese government, Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) assembled a team of experts to assess the reforms to China’s S&T sector — reforms that began in 1985 as an initiative of the State Science and Technology Commission (SSTC) of China. A Decade of Reform presents the findings of this ground-breaking mission, the first-ever external examination of societal reform in China.” (IDRC website)
UNU-IAS: Eco-Restructuring for Sustainable Development
This policy-oriented UN think tank of the UN University-Institute of Advanced Studies utilizes applied research for the advancement of knowledge relevant to the work of the United Nations as well as to its application in the formulation of sound policies and programmes for action, especially regarding sustainable development.
From 1996 to 2001, UNU-IAS’ research programme focused on the challenge of ‘Eco-Restructuring for Sustainable Development’. The concept of eco–restructuring refers to the transformation of technology, economy, society, and lifestyles towards greater sustainability.
International Conference of the Gender and S&T Association
The 8th International Conference of the Gender and Science and Technology Association (GASAT 8) was held in Ahmedabad, India, on January 5-10, 1996.