“In an effort to challenge the common view that women passively respond to technology, the Do It Herself research project, funded by UNIFEM, the Ford Foundation, and other organizations, was conceived to examine women’s contributions to technical innovations at a grassroots level.
Women and Technical Innovation in Asia
TWAS Second General Conference, Beijing
TWAS’s Second General Conference in Beijing in 1987 marked the opening of China’s scientific community to the world.
Farmer First Workshop at IDS
Farmer First Workshop at IDS “Farmers and Agricultural Research: Complementary Methods”
ILO Report ‘Blending of New and Traditional Technologies’
ILO submits a report on ‘Blending of New and Traditional Technologies’ to The UN Advisory Committee on Science and Technology for Development
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.