UNCTAD, ‘Women, Technology and Sexual Divisions’

UN Conference on Trade and Development, Secretariat. Women, technology and sexual divisions. Study prepared by Amartya K. Sen at the request of the UNCTAD secretariat and INSTRAW. New York: UN, 1985. UNCTAD/TT/79

Work within CGIAR using participatory approaches

Work within CGIAR system on technology development using participatory approaches, controversial though they were, gave empirical evidence of how participatory methods had been effective in influencing the priorities and content of research and extension programme.

UN panel meets to explore ‘technology blending’

A panel of the UN Advisory Committee on Science and Technology for Development (ACSTD) meets in the Philippines to explore integration of new and traditional technologies (‘technology blending’) for development.

The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS, formerly ‘Third World Academy of Science’) founded

TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, is an autonomous international organization, founded in 1983 in Trieste, Italy, by a distinguished group of scientists from the South under the leadership of the late Nobel laureate Abdus Salam of Pakistan.

Methods of Participatory Appraisal

Debates about Participatory Rural Appraisal and Rapid Rural Appraisal (henceforth PRA/RRA) may be marked as beginning at a workshop on RRA organised in 1980 by Robert Chambers at the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex.

Conference on the Continuing Subordination of Women in the Development Process

There was significant discussion on women and technology at an IDS conference highlighted in a Special Issue of the IDS Bulletin on The Continuing Subordination of Women in the Development Process in 1979.

UN Conference on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries

The UN Conference on ‘Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries (TCDC) in Buenos Aires, Argentina “reaffirmed the important role of technical cooperation among developing countries as an instrument for the promotion and implementation of economic cooperation among developing countries,” (G77 website) and arose as an effort to become more technically and financially self-reliant.

IDRC, Science and Technology Policy Instruments Project

The Science and Technology Policy Instruments (STPI) project was an extensive research project organised by the International Development Research Centre on the implementation of science policy in developing countries. The STPI project studied the role of science and technology in economic development, particularly in the industrialization process, and looked at: mechanisms of policy formulation, decision making, and policy implementation; factors affecting technological change; and industrial administration.

Herrera ‘Modern and Traditional Technologies’

Herrera, A. (1975), ‘Modern and Traditional Technologies: An Approach to the Generation of Technologies Appropriate for Rural Areas’. Mimeo, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Sussex.

Sharing Traditional Technology Project UNU

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.