Roundtable

‘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. The Manifesto will explore and recommend alternative approaches of linking science and innovation to development in ways that address the “3Ds”:

• Directionality – towards specific sustainability objectives
• Distribution – equitable distribution of costs, risks and benefits
• Diversity – in socio-technological systems

Aim: a more sustainable, equitable and resilient future.

• A series of events running from 2008, including roundtables in different parts of the world, will help shape the New Manifesto to be published in 2010. A high-level international conference will mark the Manifesto’s launch.
• At this Dutch roundtable in The Hague you will have a chance to debate the future of innovation, sustainability and development and voice your opinion. A number of speakers will kick off the debate by making brief provocative and/or inspirational statements, linking their topic of expertise to one or more of the 3Ds.

15.00-	Welcome / coffee and tea
15.30-	Introduction New Manifesto, Adrian Ely / Elisa Arond (STEPS Centre)
15.45-	3 provocative/inspirational statements (30 min) + discussion (30 min):
	Luc Soete (UNU-MERIT/AWT) - Knowledge, innovation & development Jasper Grosskurth (STT) - African Technology Futures: prepare to re-think Monique Deminint (UAFC) - HIV prevention & reinventing female condoms
16.45-	Break
17.00-	3 provocative/inspirational statements (30 min) + discussion (30 min)
	Jeroen van den Hoven (3TU.Ethics) - Responsible innovation, value sensitive design Prabhu Kandachar (TU Delft) - Design for the BoP David Koepsell (3TU.Ethics) - Revising intellectual property regimes
18.30-	Final debate with panel of presenters
19.00-	Drinks with informal buffet
20.00-	End

• Flyer explaining the STEPS manifesto project
• Short explanation of the 3Ds

See also http://anewmanifesto.org/section/manifesto-project/ for more information about the New Manifesto project, or contact Ilse Oosterlaken () for more information about this roundtable. 

Monique Demenint

Monique Demenint is part of the Universal Access to Female Condom (UAFC) Joint Programme, a collaboration in which four organizations work together to make female condoms widely available. A special feature of this programme is that it pays not only attention to advocacy and support for female condom programming, but also and explicitly to R&D - better female condoms (high quality, low price, user friendly) are needed to achieve a reduction in HIV infections.

Adrian Ely

Adrian is convening the New Manifesto project of the STEPS Centre (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability), University of Sussex. He is also a researcher. Adrian’s areas of interest include environmental impacts of GM crops, frameworks for biotechnology regulation, risk and uncertainty in policy-making around new technologies and innovation for sustainable development.

Jasper Grosskurth

Jasper Grosskurth is currently project leader of the foresight project ‘Technology in Africa’ of STT (Stichting Toekomstbeeld der Techniek). He studied economics at Maastricht University and wrote a doctoral thesis in the area of future studies, policy making an regional sustainability.

Jeroen van den Hoven

Jeroen van den Hoven is professor of ethics and technology at TU Delft and scientific director at the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology. He was one of the driving forces behind the grant program ‘Responsibile Innovation’ of NWO (the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), which also pays attention to innovation, developing countries and global justice. A key concept in his work is that of ‘value sensitive design’.

Prabhu Kandachar

Prabhu Kandachar, born and educated in India, is professor of industrial design engineering at TU Delft. He is extensively involved in designing products & services for the emerging markets or BoP in developing countries, with many action oriented projects and much collaboration with companies in the last few years (see here).

David Koepsell

David Koepsell is both a lawyer and philosopher of technology, working as an assistant professor at TU Delft / 3TU.Ethics. Recently, he published the book Who owns you - The corporate gold rush to patent your genes, about the ethical problems pertaining to companies holding patents on human genes. He is currently expanding his work to look into intellectual property regimes and the global poor.

Luc Soete

Luc Soete is professor of international economic relations at Maastricht University and director of UNU-MERIT, a joint research institute with the United Nations University (UNU). He is also member of AWT, the Dutch Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy, for which he is currently preparing a report on science, innovation and development. 

Since the maximum number of participants has now been reached, registration for this event is closed.

This roundtable is organised by Ilse Oosterlaken of the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology, in collaboration with STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability), University of Sussex.

With special thanks for their support and assistance to:

• Otto Kroessen
• EIRENE Nederland