Research Training Seminar 6.6

Research and Technology for Development:
Mapping the Context of Agriculture Policy of Orissa, 2008

Sumita Sindhi
Doctoral Scholar, XIMB
u507006[at]stu.ximb.ac.in

Date: September 5, 2008 (Friday); Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Class Room No. 7, XIMB Campus

ABSTRACT: Conventional policy analysis focuses more on policy formulation rather than the processes necessary to ensure that there is greater effectiveness of policies. Users and beneficiaries are rarely consulted during the formulation of policies and opponents of the policy are dubbed anti-development or anti-science. Recent perspectives from science, technology, and society (STS) studies underscore the need for societal actors to be actively involved in policy making processes. Research and Technology for Development (RTD) is a framework to provide methodological guidance to strengthen the process. RTD can facilitate an open learning process, involving policy dialogue and stakeholder participation (Bijker, 2001). A workshop on using the RTD framework in the context of the draft agriculture policy of Orissa was held at XIMB in February 2008, in collaboration with the University of Maastricht. The seminar will focus on the ideas developed in the workshop, and the work done subsequently to map the perspectives of various stakeholders and clarify institutional relations among the various actors. The seminar would present a work in progress, with a view to eliciting insights and suggestions for future work.

Reference

Bijker W. E. (with Leonards, C., & Wackers, G.) (2001, August 14). Research and technology for development (RTD) through a EU-ACP policy dialogue: Scientific background, methodology, and toolbox. University of Maastricht. Retrieved September 4, 2008, from http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=1998

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