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Newsletter Autumn 2009
Welcome to the Autumn 2009 update on research, events and publications from the ESRC STEPS Centre. We are delighted to be able to share with you the launch of a major new project: Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto. Forty years after a radical document, The Sussex Manifesto, helped shape modern thinking on science and technology for development, we are creating a new manifesto for today’s world. There are lots of ways to get involved in the project – from contributing to the wiki-timeline to hosting a roundtable event. We look forward to your input. Just click on the headlines and pink links to go direct to the news, and as ever, do get in touch.
Julia Day, Communications Manager
A New Manifesto: New background papers
13 new papers have been written for our Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project, 40 years after the Sussex Manifesto helped shape thinking on science and technology for development. You can download them free of charge in PDF format.Background papers for the Manifesto
Manifesto Symposium: videos, photos and more
At the STEPS Symposium, delegates filmed recommendations to the UN on innovation for sustainability and development. Blogs, presentations and photos from the event are also online now.
Presentations from Symposium speakers
Blogs from the Symposium
Video vox pops from the Symposium
Photos from the Symposium
IDS Podcast: The Big Question for Development – focuses on the New Manifesto
A New Manifesto: Wiki-timeline
Contribute quickly and easily to our new wiki-timeline, a living archive tracing over 50 years of events and publications on science, technology and innovation for development.
Wiki-timeline
A New Manifesto: Events
A series of round table events are taking place across the globe, to discuss issues highlighted in the draft Manifesto.
24 November, 2009: The Hague, Netherlands
UK 1st students round table – photos and podcast
Nepal round table – video, photo and blog
History of the Manifesto
Get the background to the Manifesto, from its origins in 1970 to today. Includes video of a seminar by Professor Geoff Oldham, one of the original authors of the Sussex Manifesto.
YouTube: Prof. Geoff Oldham on the Sussex Manifesto
Knowledge Society Debates
What is common between European and Indian visions of a knowledge society, and what can we learn from each other? A series of debates in India discussed visions of a knowledge society. The Indian periodical Seminar devoted a special issue to the debates, and the events were reported by the media.
Report on the Knowledge Society debates
Report and materials from New Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad
Seminar special issue: “Knowledge in Question”
The Hindu: How inclusive is knowledge?
The Times of India: Knowledge Society debate comes to town
Time Out Bangalore: Know can do
Biotechnology Research Archive
Our new online archive brings together 10 years of research into genetically-modified crops, development and the global food crisis. We launched the archive and new publications with an event in Parliament, an article in Nature and new id21 and Eldis resources.
Nature article: Africa's biotechnology battle -Scoones & Glover
id21 Viewpoints: GM Crops
Eldis Biotechnology Key Issues Guide
Article: GM Crops in Africa, by Scoones & Glover
Podcast: GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis event, June 10
Photos from GM Crops event in Parliament
Biotechnology: new publications
Our recent publications include working papers by Dominic Glover on Bt Cotton and GM Crops. Each paper has a short, easy to read companion briefing.
STEPS Working Paper 15 - Undying Promise: Agricultural Biotechnology’s Pro-Poor Narrative, Ten Years On
STEPS Briefing 15 – Transgenic Cotton: A ‘pro-poor’ success?
STEPS Working Paper 11 - Made by Monsanto: the Corporate Shaping of GM Crops as a Technology for the Poor
STEPS Briefing 11 – GM Crops: a ‘pro-poor’ technology?
Health: Beyond Scaling Up
The STEPS Centre and its affiliate Future Health Systems are launching a series of activities challenging prevailing concepts of “scaling up” in the health sector.
Beyond Scaling Up flyer
STEPS health work
Lawrence Haddad, IDS director, on scaling up in the health sector
Liquid dynamics
The STEPS water team held an event at World Water Week in Stockholm in August, using case studies from our peri-urban work in Delhi and Community-Led Total Sanitation.
Blog from World Water Week in Stockholm
Presentations from Stockholm
Podcast of STEPS session at World Water Week
Photos from World Water Week
New project: Beyond Biosafety
Our new pilot project aims to open up debates about biosafety, focussing on Kenya and the Philippines, which have been seen as regional ‘test cases’ for biotechnology and biosafety regulatory development.
New publication: the peri-urban edge of sustainability
For the first time in history more than 50% of the world population lives in built up areas. Our new Working Paper explores sustainability challenges, drawing on our work in peri-urban Delhi.
New Working Paper - On the Edge of Sustainability: Perspectives on Peri-urban Dynamics
Fiona Marshall blog: What does peri-urban sustainability mean in the context of Delhi?
Photos from the project: Ghaziabad settlements
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Journal articles by STEPS members
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