ABSTRACT

In this innovative and entirely original text, which has been thoughtfully edited to ensure coherence and readability across disciplines, scientists and practitioners from around the world provide evidence of the opportunities for, and the challenges of, developing collaborative approaches to bringing advanced and emerging technology to poor communities in developing countries in a responsible and sustainable manner. This volume will stimulate and satisfy readers seeking to engage in a rich and challenging discussion, integrating many strands of social thought and physical science. For those also seeking to creatively engage in the great challenges of our times for the benefit of struggling farmers, sick children, and people literally living in the dark around the world, may this volume also spark imagination, inspire commitment, and provoke collaborative problem solving.

chapter 1|20 pages

Introduction

The Promise and Perils of High-Tech Approaches to Development

chapter 2|7 pages

Creating the future

Materials, Innovation, and the Scientific Community

chapter 3|12 pages

Rural development, technology, and “policy memory”

Anthropological Reflections from Bangladesh on Technological Change

chapter 4|7 pages

Achieving equitable outcomes through emerging technologies

A Social Empowerment Approach

chapter 5|14 pages

Emerging technologies and inequalities

Beyond the Technological Transition

chapter 7|11 pages

Food security

From the Green Revolution to Nanotechnology

chapter 8|13 pages

(Nano)technology and food security

What Scientists Can Learn from Malian Farmers

chapter 9|6 pages

Innovations for development

The African Challenge

chapter 11|11 pages

Solid-state lighting

A Market-Based Approach to Escaping the “Poverty Trap”

chapter 12|13 pages

Energy for development

The Case of Bioenergy in Brazil

chapter 13|13 pages

Implications of nanotechnology for labor and employment

Assessing Nanotechnology Products in Brazil

chapter 14|15 pages

Seeking the non-developmental within the developmental

Mobile Phones in the Globalized Migration Context 1

chapter 17|4 pages

Global governance of emerging technologies

From Science Networking to Coordinated Oversight