THE MANIFESTO PROJECT
Forty years after The Sussex Manifesto helped shape modern thinking on science and technology for development, the STEPS Centre and its partners around the world are creating a new manifesto recommending new ways of linking science and innovation to development for a more sustainable, equitable and resilient future in an era of dynamic change.
About the STEPS Centre
The ESRC STEPS Centre (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) is an interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement hub uniting development studies with science and technology studies.
What is ‘Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto’?
In 1970 the publication of a radical and controversial document helped shape modern thinking on science and technology for development. It was called The Sussex Manifesto: Science and Technology to Developing Countries during the Second Development Decade.
Why is a New Manifesto needed now?
Standard policies link innovation, science and technology to development in ways that are not always the most sustainable and equitable solutions for the people they seek to help. As a result, they often fail to address the challenges of an uncertain, dynamic and rapidly changing world.
A new ‘3D’ agenda
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto aims to challenge the mainstream models of science and technology for development that have become integral to government and international agency policy.
Elements of the New Manifesto
The New Manifesto will integrate lessons learned since the original with emerging perspectives to investigate current debates in science and technology for development.
Launch event, 2010
We plan to launch the New Manifesto in spring 2010 at a two/three day conference.
