The COVID-19 pandemic and open science
- Valeria Arza and Agustina Colonna Research Center for Transformation (CENIT), Economics and Business School, National University of San Martin 6 May 2020 The global coronavirus pandemic has brought about many changes throughout the world in only a matter
The COVID-19 pandemic shows how power produces poverty
Saurabh Arora and Divya Sharma This blog was originally published on the STEPS Centre blog. Responses by governments to the COVID-19 pandemic around the world reveal how poverty is produced by social power. The pandemic points, in particular, to
Modernity without its clothes: the pandemic crisis shines a light on futilities of control
Andy Stirling This blog was originally published on the STEPS Centre blog. With so many self-appointed pundits (like me!) currently locked down with their laptops, the present rush of commentary on how to pivot the coronavirus crisis is hardly
COVID-19 and Sustainability
- John Robinson Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and the School of the Environment, at the University of Toronto. 15 April 2020 The plethora of articles about the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis
Can we align Science, Technology and Innovation to the Sustainable Development Goals in Low and Middle-Income Country contexts? The quest for meaningful questions.
- Ine Steenmans, Tommaso Ciarli and Joanna Chataway 31 March 2020 Science, technology and innovation (STI) are often invoked as essential to addressing some of the most serious of threats to our world. A common narrative is optimistic about
Global solidarity in science and innovation will stop COVID-19 and speed the SDGs
- John Ouma-Mugabe Professor of Science and Innovation Policy, Graduate School of Technology Management (GSTM), University of Pretoria 27 March 2020 The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is exposing the complex organic interrelationships of science, innovation and the Sustainable Development Goals
On the Importance of the Science-Policy Interface for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
- Jacob Assa UNDP/HDRO 28 February 2020 The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set a very ambitious vision for what humanity needs to accomplish by the year 2030. With just 10 years left, the United Nations system
Breeding or Conservation: Enhancing access to climate-resilient rice seeds in India
- Rasheed Sulaiman V Centre for Research on Innovation and Science Policy (CRISP), India 22 January 2020 The food security of more than half the world’s population depends on rice production. Most rice production environments are increasingly affected by