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What’s new with technologies in Africa? Newsletter #3
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....
Statement on the Dakar 2 Summit : “Climate smart agriculture” will worsen the climate crisis
We, the undersigned organizations, write to express our deep concern at the aims and assumptions that appear to underlie the 2nd Dakar Summit on Agriculture and Agribusiness (Dakar II), to be held from January 25 to 27, 2023 in Senegal. The stated aim of the summit,...
Geoengineering: An illustration of the proposed manipulations of the Earth system
Geoengineering is the large-scale and intentional technological manipulation of the planet’s climate. Learn more about the different techniques represented in this infographic.
What’s new with technologies in Africa? Newsletter #2
An AfriTAP newsletter, June 2022 AfriTAP presents our second newsletter! This newsletter highlights developments in new technologies in Africa, focusing on climate and geoengineering, agriculture and food, genetic technologies and digital technologies. It also...
What’s new with technologies in Africa?
An AfriTAP newsletter, December 2021 AfriTAP presents our first newsletter! This newsletter highlights developments in new technologies in Africa, in the areas of climate, geoengineering, agriculture, genetic technologies and digital technologies. We hope you find...
Nirvana or nightmare? Asia-Pacific’s new wave of disruptive technologies
Artists: Nemcy C. Cruz and Charley Hall It was long predicted that a pandemic like Covid-19 would take place sooner or later. Now it appears highly likely that the deployment of a range of new and disruptive technologies could sweep the world, potentially doing...
Job opportunity: AfriTAP Network Guide
The AfriTAP / PEMTAfrique network is looking for a professional networker and project guide based in Africa who is bilingual in French and English. Overview AfriTAP / PEMTAfrique is a new civil society platform bringing together allies from Africa to support the...
New online resources to support the participatory assessment of new technologies
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the rise of a global resource-grab in our food and agriculture systems. This encompassing the digitalization of its core ecological and social components as a new means of making vast profits. Approaches that claim precision and...
TECLA: A brief history of how Latin Americans have assessed new technologies
Background Recent years have seen a growing influence of corporations and private interests in new technologies. New technologies are being introduced into society without real assessment of what they are, how they work, who is funding them and what their impacts may...
The COVID-19 Pandemic and its impact
The COVID-19 Pandemic which has been with us since November 2019, has affected and impacted us in different ways. It has impacted on our food system, science and technology. There has been lots of speculations as well as right information embedded in the different...
Understanding emerging technologies
In December 2020, ETC Group hosted four workshops drawing together civil society and academic expertise on the likely impact of emerging disruptive technologies on peoples and biodiversity in Asia-Pacific. The resulting analysis will be published soon and form an...