Marathmoli roundtables: reports

The Marathmoli roundtable process took place in Maharashtra, India in March and April 2010. (Marathmoli Maharashtra Women’s Net is an information network and support service for women and other marginalised…

THE NEW MANIFESTO AND LANGUAGE

By Indie Dinala, postgraduate student in Science, Society and Development at IDS. Language was one of the big subjects that came up at the New Manifesto launch on 15 June….

Zimbabwe Roundtable

On 5 March 2010 in Harare, the Southern Africa office of Practical Action ran a Manifesto roundtable. The aim was to discuss innovation, sustainability and development from their national perspective…

LANGUAGE AND THE NEW MANIFESTO

Indie Dinala, a student on the Science, Society and Development course here at IDS, attended the Manifesto launch on 15 June. These are her personal reflections on what was discussed:…

Policy Lab: Where have the politics gone?

On 14 June 2010, the eve of the New Manifesto launch, the Royal Society hosted a discussion about the politics of science and innovation for development. The title was “Science…

MANIFESTO: ILSE OOSTERLAKEN BLOGS

Ilse Oosterlaken of 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology in the Netherlands (and convenor of The Hague roundtable in November) has blogged about the launch of the New Manifesto: Is this…

SCIENCE AND RISK: PROF ANDY STIRLING ON BBC RADIO 4

To what extent should we be willing to stop innovation in science and technology if we’re not certain that we can cope with the consequences when things go wrong? Andy…

DAVID GRIMSHAW OF PRACTICAL ACTION ON THE MANIFESTO

David Grimshaw of Practical Action spoke at the launch of the New Manifesto on Tuesday. He’s also now written a blogpost on what he would add to it. This 3D…

Manifesto launch: video

At the Royal Society in London on 15 June, the Manifesto was launched with a set of provocative and passionate responses by speakers from around the globe. Now all the…