Grassroots innovation movements: challenges and contributions

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Adrian Smith; Fressoli, Juan Mariano; Thomas, Hernan Eduardo
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2013
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Technologies for social inclusion in Latin America are a recent manifestation of grassroots innovation movements whose global activities go back to appropriate technology in the 1970s and earlier. Common to these movements is a vision for innovation processes more inclusive towards local communities in terms of knowledge, processes and outcomes. A comparison in this article between movements for technologies for social inclusion now and appropriate technology in the past reveals three enduring challenges for grassroots innovation: attending to local specificities whilst simultaneously seeking wide-scale diffusion; being appropriate to existing situations that one ultimately seeks to transform; and, working with project-based solutions to goals (of social justice) whose root causes rest in structures of economic and political power. Each challenge effectively frames grassroots innovation differently, and responses generate valuable forms of knowledge production: grassroots ingenuity; grassroots empowerment; and structural critique. Overall, these movements contribute valuable plurality and reflexivity to innovation policy and politics.
Fil: Adrian Smith. University of Sussex; Reino Unido
Fil: Fressoli, Juan Mariano. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Thomas, Hernan Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina
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Grassroots Innovation
Inclusive Innovation
Apropriate Technologies
Sustainable Development
Latin America
Technologies for Social Inclusion
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Grassroots innovation movements: challenges and contributions
title Grassroots innovation movements: challenges and contributions
spellingShingle Grassroots innovation movements: challenges and contributions
Adrian Smith
Grassroots Innovation
Inclusive Innovation
Apropriate Technologies
Sustainable Development
Latin America
Technologies for Social Inclusion
title_short Grassroots innovation movements: challenges and contributions
title_full Grassroots innovation movements: challenges and contributions
title_fullStr Grassroots innovation movements: challenges and contributions
title_full_unstemmed Grassroots innovation movements: challenges and contributions
title_sort Grassroots innovation movements: challenges and contributions
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Adrian Smith
Fressoli, Juan Mariano
Thomas, Hernan Eduardo
author Adrian Smith
author_facet Adrian Smith
Fressoli, Juan Mariano
Thomas, Hernan Eduardo
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Thomas, Hernan Eduardo
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Grassroots Innovation
Inclusive Innovation
Apropriate Technologies
Sustainable Development
Latin America
Technologies for Social Inclusion
topic Grassroots Innovation
Inclusive Innovation
Apropriate Technologies
Sustainable Development
Latin America
Technologies for Social Inclusion
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Technologies for social inclusion in Latin America are a recent manifestation of grassroots innovation movements whose global activities go back to appropriate technology in the 1970s and earlier. Common to these movements is a vision for innovation processes more inclusive towards local communities in terms of knowledge, processes and outcomes. A comparison in this article between movements for technologies for social inclusion now and appropriate technology in the past reveals three enduring challenges for grassroots innovation: attending to local specificities whilst simultaneously seeking wide-scale diffusion; being appropriate to existing situations that one ultimately seeks to transform; and, working with project-based solutions to goals (of social justice) whose root causes rest in structures of economic and political power. Each challenge effectively frames grassroots innovation differently, and responses generate valuable forms of knowledge production: grassroots ingenuity; grassroots empowerment; and structural critique. Overall, these movements contribute valuable plurality and reflexivity to innovation policy and politics.
Fil: Adrian Smith. University of Sussex; Reino Unido
Fil: Fressoli, Juan Mariano. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Thomas, Hernan Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina
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