This project, initially supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), later taken up by the United Nations University (UNU), tried to explore how formal science and technology and its associated institutions interact with farmers and other rural inhabitants who have innovated for centuries, albeit in a different way and without the same institutional mechanisms.
Sharing Traditional Technology Project UNU
Participatory Approaches to Technology Development
Some of the earliest work on participatory approaches occurred in Bangladesh in an effort to learn from local development initiatives.
UN Declaration on the Use of S&T for Peace
UN Declaration on the Use of Scientific and Technological Progress in the Interests of Peace for the Benefit of Mankind.
‘Views of Science, Technology and Development’
This book includes a chapter on ‘Views from Developing Countries’ with contributions by Ashok Parthasarathi, Francisco Sagasti, Hyung-Sup Choi, and others; a chapter on ‘Views from Developed Countries’ including a copy of the draft Sussex Report for the UN Development Decade, and a chapter on ‘the Green Revolution’.
UN Declaration: New International Economic Order
UN Declaration for the Establishment of a New International Economic Order (NIEO)
The NIEO was a set of proposals put forward during the 1970s by developing countries through the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to promote greater equity in international economic cooperation by reforming the terms of trade, increasing development assistance, reducing developed-country tariffs, and other means.
A BRITISH FOOD REVOLUTION?
By Julia Day The UK government has today called for an “radical rethink” of food production in the country. And unsurprisingly, genetically modified crops are at the centre of the…
UN Committee on Science and Technology for Development
During the early 1970s, ECOSOC established a Committee on Science and Technology for Development which provided a special political forum for the results of ACAST’s work within the United Nations and brought the discussion to a more political level.
UNCTAD Committee on Transfer of Technology
In 1974, the Trade and Development Board transformed the Group on Transfer of Technology into the Committee on Transfer of Technology (CTT). During the 1970s, the Committee focused on issues related to the transfer of technology, including terms and conditions for such transfer, reflecting a major preoccupation of developing countries with improving access to foreign technology and ways and means of acquiring it at fairer prices and on fairer conditions.
Schumacher ‘Small is Beautiful’
‘Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered’ a book by E. F. Schumacher.
“Coinciding with the 1973 oil crisis, this book became a bestseller and fostered worldwide interest in alternative technologies and alternative economics.” (Practical Action website)
‘Science, Technology and Development: The role of the UNDP’
The purpose of this advisory note was to present some of the issues important and relevant for the UNDP’s support of projects with a high science and technology component and make specific recommendations. The paper noted how little systematic work has been done to understand the complex processes of the interaction between science, technology and development, especially few empirical studies.