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» Introduction: The Ups and Downs of New Technologies

» Undemocratic science and technology: The Green Revolution and malnutrition

» A top-down agricultural reform programme in Indonesia turns into a bottom-up movement for political accountability and agricultural change

» IT manufacturing workers in Scotland and Thailand forge research alliances to challenge the lack of corporate and government accountability with regard to workers' health

» Bottom-up prioritisation of research goals: the Quality Research in Dementia Network

» An Indian indigenous peoples' movement revives a participatory process of governance and uses it to tackle the challenges presented by new agricultural technologies

» A landless workers' movement in Brazil supports low cost agro ecological technologies and challenges the introduction of GM crops by transnational corporations

» Indian community groups form alliances with UK research institutes to create an accountability forum for Indian scientists and policymakers on future agricultural technologies

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Examples taken from "Democratic technology: Reclaiming science for sustainable development"
Cartoons by Ms Kate Charlesworth