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POLITICS FRONT AND CENTRE: SCIENCE AMIDST THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION
36 hours in Venezuela to attend a roundtable: Innovación, Sostenibilidad y Desarrollo para el siglo XXI: una visión desde Venezuela (‘Innovation, Sustainability and Development for the 21st Century: a Vision…
“ARE YOU A REVOLUTIONARY?”
On my way to South America to attend three roundtable events for the STEPS project ‘Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto’. I just finished the first leg, London – New…
COMMONWEALTH WEEK: WHY WE NEED SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
It’s Commonwealth Week. Julia Day has written a piece for the IDS website about the Manifesto project, which highlights alternative ways to link innovation, science and technology to development. “Standard…
MAKER FAIRE AFRICA 2010: CALL FOR ENTRIES
The team behind Maker Faire Africa 2010 put out the call for entries yesterday. Maker Faire Africa – “a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention” – takes place in…
HOW TO BE RADICAL AND ALSO BE PRACTICAL?
The Delhi roundtable for the STEPS project ‘Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto’ was extremely challenging and also helpful. This blog can’t do justice to the full discussion, so please…
UN NUEVO MANIFIESTO – LATIN AMERICA
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…
CONCLAVE OF AFRO-ASIAN YOUNG SCIENTISTS: GEOENGINEERING – THE STUFF OF HOLLYWOOD
By Harriet Le Bris, STEPS Centre member When I first heard about geoengineering at last year’s STEPS Centre Symposium, my mouth dropped open as I stared in disbelief at the…
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…
“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…