Aid Technology And Development
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Aid Technology And Development
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Author : Dipak Gyawali
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-12-08
Aid Technology And Development written by Dipak Gyawali and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-08 with Business & Economics categories.
Over the last 50 years, Nepal has been considered an experiential model in determining the effectiveness and success of global human development strategies, both in theory and in practice. As such, it provides a rich array of in-depth case studies in both development success and failure. This edited collection examines these in order to propose a novel perspective on how human development occurs and how it can be aided and sustained. Aid, Technology and Development: The lessons from Nepal champions plural rationality from both a theoretical and practical perspective in order to challenge and critique the status quo in human development understanding, while simultaneously presenting a concrete framework with which to aid citizen and governmental organisations in the galvanization of human development. Including contributions by leading international social scientists and development practitioners throughout Nepal, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in the field of foreign aid and development studies.
Technical Knowledge And Development
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Author : Thomas Grammig
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-01-14
Technical Knowledge And Development written by Thomas Grammig and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-14 with Science categories.
Development and aid projects often fail to improve technological capacity. Their reform has been a widely acknowledged challenge for three decades. This book demonstrates theoretically and empirically how aid practitioners shape the organizational, social and inter-cultural dynamics of development projects in industry.
Monitoring Movements In Development Aid
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Author : Casper Bruun Jensen
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2013-08-30
Monitoring Movements In Development Aid written by Casper Bruun Jensen and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An examination of emerging information infrastructures that are intended to increase accountability and effectiveness in partnerships for development aid. In Monitoring Movements in Development Aid, Casper Jensen and Brit Winthereik consider the processes, social practices, and infrastructures that are emerging to monitor development aid, discussing both empirical phenomena and their methodological and analytical challenges. Jensen and Winthereik focus on efforts by aid organizations to make better use of information technology; they analyze a range of development aid information infrastructures created to increase accountability and effectiveness. They find that constructing these infrastructures is not simply a matter of designing and implementing technology but entails forging new platforms for action that are simultaneously imaginative and practical, conceptual and technical. After presenting an analytical platform that draws on science and technology studies and the anthropology of development, Jensen and Winthereik present an ethnography- based analysis of the mutually defining relationship between aid partnerships and infrastructures; the crucial role of users (both actual and envisioned) in aid information infrastructures; efforts to make aid information dynamic and accessible; existing monitoring activities of an environmental NGO; and national-level performance audits, which encompass concerns of both external control and organizational learning. Jensen and Winthereik argue that central to the emerging movement to monitor development aid is the blurring of means and ends: aid information infrastructures are both technological platforms for knowledge about aid and forms of aid and empowerment in their own right.
The Fundamental Role Of Science And Technology In International Development
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2006-05-24
The Fundamental Role Of Science And Technology In International Development written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-24 with Political Science categories.
In October 2003 the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Research Council (NRC) entered into a cooperative agreement. The agreement called for the NRC to examine selected aspects of U.S. foreign assistance activities-primarily the programs of the USAID-that have benefited or could benefit from access to strong science, technology, and medical capabilities in the United States or elsewhere. After considering the many aspects of the role of science and technology (S&T) in foreign assistance, the study led to the publication of The Fundamental Role of Science and Technology in International Development. In the book special attention is devoted to partnerships that involve the USAID together with international, regional, U.S. governmental, and private sector organizations in fields such as heath care, agriculture and nutrition, education and job creation, and energy and the environment. This book explores specific programmatic, organizational, and personnel reforms that would increase the effective use of S&T to meet the USAID's goals while supporting larger U.S. foreign policy objectives.
Far Fetched Facts
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Author : Richard Rottenburg
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2009-04-17
Far Fetched Facts written by Richard Rottenburg and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-17 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A fictionalized ethnographic study of development aid in sub-Saharan Africa that focuses on technologies of inscription in the interactions of development banks, international experts, and local managers. In 1996, the sub-Saharan African country of Ruritania launched a massive waterworks improvement project, funded by the Normesian Development Bank, headquartered in Urbania, Normland, and with the guidance of Shilling & Partner, a consulting firm in Mercatoria, Normland. Far-Fetched Facts tells the story of this project, as narrated by anthropologists Edward B. Drotlevski and Samuel A. Martonosi. Their account of the Ruritanian waterworks project views the problems of development from a new perspective, focusing on technologies of inscription in the interactions of development bank, international experts, and local managers. This development project is fictionalized, of course, although based closely on author Richard Rottenburg's experiences working on and observing different development projects in the 1990s. Rottenburg uses the case of the Ruritanian waterworks project to examine issues of standardization, database building, documentation, calculation, and territory mapping. The techniques and technologies of the representational practices of documentation are crucial, Rottenburg argues, both to day-to-day management of the project and to the demonstration of the project's legitimacy. Five decades of development aid (or “development cooperation,” as it is now sometimes known) have yielded disappointing results. Rottenburg looks in particular at the role of the development consultant (often called upon to act as mediator between the other actors) and at the interstitial spaces where developmental cooperation actually occurs. He argues that both critics and practitioners of development often misconstrue the grounds of cooperation—which, he claims, are moral, legal, and political rather than techno-scientific or epistemological.
The Development Of Aid
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Author : Gerard Van Bilzen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-12
The Development Of Aid written by Gerard Van Bilzen and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-12 with Social Science categories.
Aid to developing countries started well before World War II, but was undertaken as an ad hoc activity or was delivered by private organizations. This changed after the War. In his Inaugural Address in 1949, the American President, Harry Truman, announced a “bold new programme for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped nations” (the so-called “Point IV” Plan). At that time it was thought that this support would be needed only for a limited number of years, comparable to the Marshall Plan assistance to Europe. But reality proved to be different: providing aid was a very long-term affair. Since the Fifties, the aid provided has changed at different occasions. In the beginning, aid concentrated on constructing infrastructure, such as roads, railways, dams, and harbours, in order to promote industrial development. In the Sixties, aid to agriculture was added, and in the Seventies aid to social sectors (Basic Needs) was also provided. The Eighties brought worldwide debt problems. Major donors applied structural adjustment policies; some called this the lost decade (década perdida). The Nineties saw the arrival of the first environmental considerations, and asked for attention for the role of women and good governance. The form of aid changed from projects to programmes and budget support. Describing the different aid forms of the last 65 years and analysing why aid changed from time to time are the subjects of this book. Professionals and students in the area of international cooperation will benefit from studying this history, as, at this moment, old concepts are reappearing or applied by new donors like China. Is the pendulum really swinging back, as Louis Emmerij at one point suggested?
Proposal For A Program In Appropriate Technology
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Author : United States. Agency for International Development
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Proposal For A Program In Appropriate Technology written by United States. Agency for International Development and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Appropriate technology categories.
Role of USA. Report on an a.i.d. Proposal for a technical cooperation programme focused on appropriate labour intensive choice of technology in developing countries - includes references.
Mobilizing Appropriate Technology
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Author : Matthew S. Gamser
language : en
Publisher: Intermediate Technology Publications
Release Date : 1988
Mobilizing Appropriate Technology written by Matthew S. Gamser and has been published by Intermediate Technology Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Social Science categories.
Discusses the role of AT in a national aid programme. If AT enters the project cycle at too late a stage it has little influence over the technological choice and the grassroots organizations that play a key role in development and change in rural areas.
Technologies For Development
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Author : Silvia Hostettler
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-06-15
Technologies For Development written by Silvia Hostettler and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-15 with Science categories.
This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action, medical and information and communication technology, disaster risk-reduction technologies, habitat and sustainable access to energy. The authors discuss how innovative technologies, such as unmanned aerial vehicles for disaster risk reduction, crowdsourcing humanitarian data, online education and ICT-based medical technologies can have significant social impact. The book brings together the best papers of the 2016 International Conference on Technologies for Development at EPFL, Switzerland. The book explores how the gap between innovation in the global South and actual social impact can be bridged. It fosters exchange between engineers, other scientists, practitioners and policy makers active at the interface of innovation and technology and human, social, and economic development.
Sustainable Technology Transfer
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Author : Hans Henrik Lidgard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Sustainable Technology Transfer written by Hans Henrik Lidgard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Economic assistance categories.
The Editors --List of Contributors --List of Abbreviations --Institutional Definitions and Abbreviations --Preface --Framing the Issues --TRIPS Article 66.2: Between Hard Law and Soft Law? --Assessing Reporting Obligations under TRIPS Article 66.2 --Technology Transfer and Competition Law: Options for Developing Countries --Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer and Development: The Case of Compulsory Licensing --ACTA and the Destabilization of TRIPS --Breaking Down Barriers to Technology Transfer: Reforming WTO Standard-Setting Rules and Establishing an Advisory Facility in Standard-Setting for Developing and Least Developed Countries --Technology Transfer and Climate Change --Technology Transfer and Benefit Sharing under the Biodiversity Convention --Sustainable Technology Transfer, Climate Control, and Renewable Power in Vietnam --Vietnam: A Case Study for Sustainable Technology Transfer --From Reality to Law: Sustainable Technology Transfer - An Outlook --Bibliography.