We are living in a time where new technologies are often presented as near magical solutions to all sorts of challenges. Politicians and the media often obscure the political dimension to technologies, leading to confusion (Box 1). Box 1: What is meant by “tech”?...
Molecular-level manipulations of every element that makes up the living world are being sold to us as “nature-based solutions” that can provide cures for almost all our problems. However, the hype that surrounds these sets of approaches is fatally undermined by the...
An AfriTAP newsletter, February 2024 AfriTAP presents our fourth newsletter. This newsletter highlights developments in new technologies in Africa, in the areas of geoengineering, agriculture, genetic technologies and digital technologies. We hope you find this...
(Scroll down to listen to audio clips from Hardi Yakubu, movement coordinator, Africans Rising and Bhekumuzi Dean Bhebhe, co-facilitator of Don’t gas Africa Movement.) As flood waters enveloped central Greece, fires continued to rage in North America, and the earth...
An AfriTAP newsletter, February 2023 AfriTAP presents our third newsletter! This newsletter highlights developments in new technologies in Africa, in the areas of geoengineering, agriculture, genetic technologies and digital technologies. We hope you find this useful....
As the world faces the multiple challenges of climate, biodiversity and environmental crises, dangerous and unproven technological approaches are being proffered as quick fixes. Instead of supporting serious and often politically painful solutions,...
