Science, Technology, and Public Policy

In conjunction with iCreate, the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project will cohost an event on "3D Printing for Educators" chaired by Calestous Juma.

The goal of this seminar is to:

• Discuss 3D printing education and implications for/integration with academia;
• Receive feedback from educators to identify how best to support them; and
• Identify schools and nonprofits that would beneft from participating in iCreate's program.

This event is free and open to the public. Please join us! RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/icreate-3d-printing-event-for-educators-tickets-12263573679.

A Storify overview of this interview is now available: https://storify.com/SciTechGlobal/africa-and-china-in-a-changing-world-order-a-chat

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Join Professor Calestous Juma @Calestous for a Twitter interview with Julie Gichuru@juliegichuru on trade and diplomatic relations between China and Africa. The interview will be held at 06:00 EDT on June 10, 2014.

The hashtag for this event is #SinoAfrica.

A Storify overview of this interview is now available: https://storify.com/Zetsaid/engineering-in-africa-a-conversation-with-cjuma

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Join Professor Calestous Juma@calestous for a Twitter interview with Julie Gichuru@juliegichuru on the role of engineering in Africa’s development. The interview will be held at 11 GMT (07 EDT and 14 East African time) on April 24, 2014.

The hashtag for this event is #cjuma.

Speaker: Keun Lee, Professor of Economics and Director, Center for Economic Catch-up at Seoul National University, South Korea

Please join us for a guest lecture by Professor Keun Lee. Professor Lee will discuss his new book, Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up: Knowledge, Path-Creation, and the Middle-Income Trap (Cambridge University Press, November 2013). This event will be chaired by Professor Calestous Juma. It will be held in conjunction with Professor Juma's class, IGA-523, and co-sponsored by both the Center for Economic Catch-up at Seoul National University and HKS Executive Education's Innovation for Economic Development.

Coffee and a light breakfast will be available from 8:30-9:00. The event will begin promptly at 9:00 and last for one hour. Please contact Katherine Gordon if you are interested in attending, as there are limited seats available. This event will also be webcast live here: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/live. It will begin streaming 15 minutes before the event. The webcast is open to the public.

From the publisher: One of the puzzles about why some countries have stronger economic growth than others revolves around the so-called 'middle-income trap', the situation in which a country that has grown strongly gets stuck at a certain level. In this book, Keun Lee explores the reasons why examples of successful catching-up are limited and in particular, why the Asian economies, including China, have managed to move, or are moving, beyond middle-income status but economic growth has stalled in some Latin American countries. This is one of the first studies to demonstrate using patent analysis that the secret lies in innovative systems at the firm, sector and country levels which promote investment in what the author calls 'short-cycle' technologies and thereby create a new path different from that of forerunning countries. With its comprehensive policy framework for development as well as useful quantitative methods, this is essential reading for academic researchers and practitioners.

Please join Professor Romain Murenzi, Executive Director of TWAS, for a public lecture.

Moderators: Calestous Juma and Venky Narayanamurti

Science, technology, and innovation (STI) are crucial for poverty alleviation and long-term economic development. Generally, countries can be classified in four STI categories: highly advanced, advanced, middle-advanced and least advanced. This last category comprises most of Africa – South Africa and Egypt are exceptions – and it is this category that is the main focus of TWAS.

The following questions will be considered: What will this decade and the next be like in the developing world and in Africa in particular? How will these countries cope with challenges such as climate change, energy security, food security, diseases, drinking water and population growth?

Please join us! This event is free and open to the public. It will also be streamed live: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/live. This link will be available 20 minutes prior to the start of the event. Follow #cjuma on Twitter for live updates as well.

Please join us for a lunch seminar with Romain Murenzi, Executive Director of TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world.
Moderators: Calestous Juma and Venky Narayanamurti

Science, technology and innovation (STI) are crucial in tackling global challenges such as climate change, food and energy scarcity, biodiversity loss, and population growth. Therefore, they are also vital to long-term sustainable economic growth and poverty alleviation. This seminar will focus on the importance of STI for poverty alleviation and economic development.

Lunch will be provided. As space is limited for this event, RSVPs will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Please email the STG Project Coordinator to RSVP.

This seminar will discuss the geospatial science, technology, and policy frameworks that reciprocally drive and constrain each other, the obstacles they create, and the extraordinary potential they present for addressing core governance, economic development, and societal needs.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come, first served basis.

Co-sponsored by the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program

China's growing appetite for primary products, and the ability of Latin America to supply that demand, has played a role in restoring growth in Latin America, both in the run-up to the global financial crisis and in its aftermath. However, China is simultaneously out-competing Latin American manufacturers in world markets. China is rapidly building the technological capabilities necessary for industrial development, whereas Latin American technology innovation and sophistication lags considerably.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED.

Professor Anil Gupta will share his experiences and engage candidly with the audience on a variety of topics.  It will be an open and free-ranging conversation, where audience members can ask questions about management, grassroots innovation or policy issues, creativity, entrepreneurship, and institution building.

Please join us! Everyone is welcome!

Mr. Saxton will elaborate on the mission of AFRICOM, which entails coordinating the kind of support that will enable African governments and existing regional organizations to have greater capacity to provide security and respond in times of need. Mr. Saxton will discuss the interplay between security and development in Africa and how a new model for civil-military cooperation can contribute to both.

Please join us! Everyone is welcome!