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Demos invites you to attend the launch of:
“The Slow Race – Making science and technology work for the poor”
A new Demos pamphlet by Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones
with responses from Gordon Conway, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK
Department for International Development,
John Mugabe from the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)
and Suman Sahai from the Gene Campaign, Delhi
Thursday 22nd June 2006
9:30am – 1:30pm
Presentation, responses and discussion followed by informal lunch
Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
1 Carlton House Terrace,
London
Science and technology are climbing up the development agenda. Governments
are racing to find solutions that will help poor people benefit from
technological advances. But, with the race for economic growth and the race
to find the ‘magic bullet,’ are we ignoring the views of citizens?
In this new pamphlet, Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones from the Institute for
Development Studies at the University of Sussex argue that we need to avoid
the temptation to go for the quick fix and instead concentrate on “the slow
race” to make technology work for the poor.
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Demos and IDS are grateful for support for this event from the Rockefeller
Foundation.
Jack Stilgoe
Demos
blog:
www.demosgreenhouse.co.uk
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