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Association of African Women for Research and Development
The Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD -Senegal) highlights the importance of women’s participation in politics and development.
There has been no space in Africa which has really encompassed women in politics, development and decision making. Women have been excluded in decision making process in many patriarchal societies. There is a need for creating awareness that women can (!), yes they can, and we should campaign for their inclusion in decision making processes and increased representation in Parliament.
Entry submitted by Perpetua Ng’ang’a
Symposium ‘09: final session - Responses from the international community, government, media, civil society and the private sector
The last session, chaired by Melissa Leach, invited various participants to feed back on the preceding discussions.
Symposium ‘09: Session 3 - What opportunities are presented by the global redistribution of innovative activity?
This session was chaired by Martin Bell and discussed the opportunities and challenges resulting from the emergence of new centres of science and innovation.
STEPS Centre Symposium ‘09: Multimedia
The STEPS Centre’s Annual Symposium focussed on our New Manifesto project. We attempted to capture a flavour of the discussions by recording video interviews, taking photos, by bloggers contributing thier thoughts and by making speaker presentations available.
Background paper / The Global Redistribution of Innovation: Lessons from China and India
By Adrian Ely and Ian Scoones
In the 40 years since the original “Sussex Manifesto”, the global landscape of science, technology and innovation has altered radically. The emergence of new centres of innovation in many of what were in 1970 grouped as “developing countries” has important implications not only for those interested in maintaining the competitiveness of the more established economic powers, but more importantly for addressing global challenges of poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability.
Background paper / Innovation Capabilities and Directions of Development
By Martin Bell
The central challenge in the original Sussex Manifesto centred on massively increasing the developing countries’ scientific and technological capabilities for creating new knowledge and shaping the technologies they used. It also stressed the need for radical change in the national and international contexts within which those capabilities
would be accumulated and used.
