Shape the future of technology and innovation

Rub shoulders with leaders in business, development, government and research, and collaboratively workshop to explore new pathways towards pro-poor innovation, equitable tech access and sustainable use of technologies.

We want you to help us forge pioneering new partnerships for change and set the world on course towards a new paradigm of sustainable and equitable technology development.

Check out the full programme here: http://cdn1.practicalaction.org/docs/forum-for-technology-justice-programme.pdf

New perspectives

Hear from leading advocates of open, accessible and sustainable technology, who are disrupting technology innovation systems for social good. 6 inspiring talks will spark debate and activity on the following themes:

Open Technology

• Can the open source movement revolutionise technology access?
• Who really owns the technology you buy?
• Can open technology catalyse new repair value chains and foster further innovation?

Disrupting Innovation

• Can we disrupt innovation systems so they respond to global needs?
• Can governments intervene in the innovation Valley of Death?
• Can innovation lead to disruption that benefits poor people?

The Circular Economy

• What does it take to make technology use environmentally and socially sustainable?
• Why do businesses still pursue linear take-use-waste models?
• Can poor people benefit from circular economies?

Inspiring speakers:

Chi Onwurah MP, Shadow Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy, and Chair of the Africa All Party Parliamentary Group [TBC]

Matthias Huisken, Director of iFixit Europe

Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net, creator of FrontlineSMS, a Tech Awards Laureate and Ashoka Fellow

Fiona Reid, Director of the UK Collaborative for Development Sciences, previously Director for the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Saïd Business School

Simon Trace CBE, Author “Rethink, retool, reboot: technology as if people and planet mattered” (forthcoming), and former CEO of Practical Action