- About
- Conveners
- Programme 2015-16
About
Science non-Fiction and the Bottom Billion: Evolving Fairer Frameworks for the Future
Scientific and technological advances have had significant effects on the lives of the world’s poorest people. All too often, however, such people are excluded from the benefits and bear the brunt of negative externalities of technological change. If understanding of the political, social, economic and cultural implications of new technologies were to mature at a similar rate to that of the process of scientific innovation, might it be possible to change this? If those responsible for evolving and implementing political, regulatory and policy frameworks were to become more future-ready with regard to scientific and technological advances, could the interests of the bottom billion be better served?
Taking a case study approach this series asks:
- What are the philosophical and ethical implications of scientific advances and technological inventions presently being developed in Cambridge?
- What might be the social, economic, political and cultural consequences should these advances come into being, and for whom?
- What legal and policy frameworks could be put in place to enhance positive, and mitigate against negative, impacts, particularly for poor and marginalised people?
- What work could be going on in the arts, humanities and social sciences simultaneously with the work of scientists to ensure that future scientific and technological advances enhance, rather than undermine, the wellbeing of the world’s bottom billion?
Administrative assistance: gradfac@crassh.cam.ac.uk
Conveners
Conveners
Lara Allen (Humanitarian Centre)
Alan Blackwell (Computer Laboratory)
Robert Doubleday (Centre for Science and Policy)
Sharath Srinavasan (Centre of Governance and Human Rights, POLIS)
Bhaskar Vira (Department of Geography)
Programme 2015-16
Science non fiction |
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3D Printing and Humanitarian Aid 14 Oct 2015 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Tim Minshall (Cambridge), Laura James (Field Ready) -Science non Fiction |
GM and Famine 28 Oct 2015 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Luke Braidwood (Cambridge) -Science non Fiction |
Will Open Source Biotechnology Benefit the Bottom Billion? 11 Nov 2015 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Jenny Molloy (OpenPlant and Synthetic Biology Strategic Research Initiative), Lalitha Sundaram (Department of Pathology)-Science non Fiction |
Drones and Conservation 25 Nov 2015 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Chris Sandbrook (Cambridge), Gavin Shelton (Fauna & Flora International) -Science non Fiction |
“Who Owns Big Data? Will Machine Learning Systems Extract Cognitive Rents from the Poor? 25 Jan 2016 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Alan Blackwell (Cambridge), Richard Harper (Social Shaping Research) -Science non Fiction |
Cataloging Global Diversity in the Human Genome: Promises and Pitfalls 8 Feb 2016 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Manj Sandhu (Sanger Institute)-Science non Fiction |
Micro-Finance Innovation for Financial Inclusion in Developing Economies 22 Feb 2016 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Karl Prince (JBS, Cambridge)-Science non Fiction |
Emerging Diseases: The Culture of Viruses 7 Mar 2016 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Derek Smith and Stephen John (Cambridge) -Science non Fiction |
Technology for the Bottom Billion Workshop 10 Jun 2016 9:30am - 5:00pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Workshop -Science non Fiction |
Assembling Entrepreneurs: Promises and Pitfalls of Innovation Hub Organizations in Africa 29 Jun 2016 4:00pm - 6:00pm, Seminar room S2, 2nd Floor, Alison Richard Building Nicolas Friederici (Oxford Internet Institute), Lara Allen (Centre for Global Equality)- Sciene non Fiction |