What happened to appropriate technology?
Yesterday, at the end of the STI Forum , I attended a side event organized by Jonny Casey of Practical Action , enthusiastic young man, of the ilk of all those enthusiastic young men that were part of ITDG, as Practical Action was called in dem-good-ole-days ! [Note: I am a little partial to Jonny because he was very complimentary on twitter about my presentation at the STI Forum. Checking him out I find that at Practical Action he “leads the organisation's efforts to mainstream gender across its work” which explains a lot and should endear him further to us genderequality wonks!] The side event was billed “World Cafe: A knowledge systems approach for # SDG2 ” and even though the methodology fell far short of what I understood as a World Café, our small group discussion was extremely interesting, if rather depressing. The group comprised largely of young people, mainly part of the UN Working group on Children and Youth who were strongly represented a