By ADRIAN SMITH, STEPS Centre member The tone of the launch of Demos’ Brazil, the Natural Knowledge Economy report by Kirsten Bound, was aimed at boosting innovative activities and potential…
BRAZIL: WHAT LIES BEHIND THE NATURAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY?
COMPLEXITY, SIMPLIFICATION AND RESILIENCE
By ADRIAN SMITH, STEPS Centre member Complexity pervaded debate at the Resilience Alliance conference last month. In one way or another, participants tried to get to grips with the sheer…
RESILIENCE 2008: RESILIENCE, ADAPTION AND TRANSFORMATION IN TURBULENT TIMES
By MELISSA LEACH, STEPS Centre director To watch live coverage of panel discussions, workshops and key presentations from Resilience 2008, log on to Web TV. Four of us from THE…
STEPS SEMINAR: THE SUSSEX MANIFESTO
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member Listen to the podcast Read Geoff Oldham’s presentation To read the 1970 Sussex Manifesto: Science and Technology to Developing Countries during the Second Development…
FLICKR THROUGH OUR PHOTOS
I have finally gotten around to creating a STEPS Centre page on Flickr. You can check out the first sets of photos to go live, including our launch, recent seminars…
WHAT TO WATCH IN 2008
Mindful of the folly of predictions, Lawrence Haddad, director of the UK Institute of Development Studies, outlines the eight events and trends he will be watching to shape the development…
ACCOMODATING DISSENT
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member Providing cures for health problems isn’t enough, if people’s personal or cultural beliefs clash with the scientific approach. STEPS Centre director Melissa Leach…
DSA DAY 3: IT’S A WRAP-UP
And as we draw to a close at DSA 2007, we have a diverse set of panellists to give us some reflections on this year’s conference. And they are quite…
DSA DAY 3: RETHINKING RISK & REGULATION
The final plenary session of this year’s DSA sees Sheila Jasanoff of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, founder of the Science and Democracy Network and a STEPS Centre Advisory…
DSA DAY 1: STEPS PANEL SESSION 1 – PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABILITY
STEPS PANEL SESSION 1 – PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABILTY: LINKING TECHNOLOGY, POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Melissa Leach, director of the STEPS Centre, opens the first STEPS panel session by saying…