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…
POLITICS FRONT AND CENTRE: SCIENCE AMIDST THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION
“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…
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…
SCIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT: CALESTOUS JUMA INTERVIEW
Following the previous post about the book “Science and Development”, Guy Collender from the London International Development Centre has interviewed Calestous Juma (who wrote the book’s preface) for a new…
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…
MANIFESTO: THE HAGUE ROUNDTABLE
By Elisa Arond “Do we have a choice?” was the provocative question posed by one speaker at a New Manifesto round table hosted in The Hague by the 3TU.Centre on…
MANIFESTO: REPORT FROM NIGERIA ROUND TABLE
Adrian Ely writes: “I heard some inspiring talks at the second day of the ATPS conference, where 157 delegates from 32 countries (including the 23 in which ATPS has national…