Three Manifesto roundtables will take place in Latin America in March: 5 March: Caracas, Venezuela 10 March: Buenos Aires, Argentina 12 March: Cali, Colombia Elisa Arond from the STEPS Centre…
UN NUEVO MANIFIESTO – LATIN AMERICA
MIDDLE CLASSES IN AFRICA
Photographer Joan Bardeletti has set up a website, Middle Classes in Africa, which includes some great galleries of photos from Kenya and Ivory Coast. (Via Africa Is A Country)
HUMAN-POWERED FERRIS WHEEL IN NEPAL
From the wonderful blog BoingBoing, some footage of an ingenious solution to a lack of electricity. BoingBoing: Human powered ferris wheel in Nepal
BOOK: SCIENCE AND INNOVATION FOR DEVELOPMENT
By Elisa Arond, STEPS Centre Last Tuesday evening was the launch of the book “Science and Innovation for Development” by Prof Sir Gordon Conway (Imperial College, and former chief scientist…
COP15: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
A month after the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, and the disappointment and frustration that many participants and observers around the world felt is still raw. Our colleague Fatema Rajabali…
“EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED”: DAVID MILLIBAND AT THE ROYAL SOCIETY
David Milliband spoke at the Royal Society yesterday on Science, Diplomacy and the Modern Age. “…international relations has long been premised on the idea of a ‘balance of power’. The…
BRINGING AFRICAN SPACE SCIENCE DOWN TO EARTH?
by Adrian Ely, STEPS Centre The past years have seen several African countries beginning to invest in satellites for defence, communications, and other objectives. Nigeria is one example (see an…
DISCUSSING “INTERSECTING KNOWLEDGES” IN NAIROBI
by Adrian Ely, STEPS Centre The African Academy of Sciences‘ vision is to be the engine driving scientific and technological development in Africa. It was established by prominent scientists, and…
YOUNG AFRICAN SCIENTISTS IN NAIROBI
By Adrian Ely The first day of the 4th TWAS-ROSSA Young Scientists’ Conference in Africa on “Science and Technology (S&T) Enterprises in Africa” provided a platform for some great examples…
COP 15: ANGRY PROTESTS AND DUBIOUS SCIENCE
By Shoumojit Kanjilal, IDS student When I woke up early and bleary eyed in Copenhagen on Wednesday the heavy snowfall made global warming seem very far away. With limited access…