This article, written by Tom Wakeford from ETC Group, discusses participatory technology assessment, sharing its key features and providing case studies to illustrate some of its dimensions. 1. No technology …
Experiments outside the laboratory: Who should decide? 1 July 2019, 5-7pm
Experiments with new technologies are happening in real communities, urban & rural. If they might affect us, for example by threatening our safety or food sovereignty, what should be our …
Thinking critically about citizen science
Citizen science, as we define it in the book People’s Knowledge (Practical Action, 2016), is a form of research covering a spectrum of levels of people’s involvement, from merely contributing …
Brexit and participatory democracy – a personal view
When People’s Knowledge organised a citizens’ jury on the future of the UK food system in relation to Brexit six weeks ago, we had only one jury member, Danni, who …