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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...