Technology
Post-doc: Population Data
Population Data BC is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow or Research Associate for a two-year term, with possibility for extension, to take significant leadership in a timely applied research project that will engage with the public to reform governance of access to research resources. Developments in data, technology, researcher desires, and public expectations have outpaced the […]
PhD Studentships: Disaster Resilience
Developing New Approaches to Community Resilience Assessment: Using technology, including web-based software, crowd-sourced data, & knowledge-based systems, as co-creative tools Resilience across all sectors of society is imperative for global efforts to reduce the adverse effects of disasters and to build a society that is change-ready and seeking opportunities for future wellbeing. Building robust pathways […]
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Essential Reference on Food Security
For those interested in, doing research on, or teaching about food security, Mark Gibson’s “The Feeding of Nations: Redefining Food Security for the 21st Century” (2012) is an essential reference to have. The book is a hardcover 640-page academic work, and unfortunately not cheap. There are a couple of ways to access the ideas if […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Food Security #Food Studies #Nutrition #Technology
Enemies of Innovation
Dr. Calestous Juma’s new book, “Innovation and its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies” (2016), explains that this is a book Dr. Juma has wanted to write since his early engagement with innovation. That includes his founding of the African Centre for Technology Studies in 1988, being a former Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological […]
Free Online Course: Technology & Society
This Technology at Work Massive Open Online Course (Tech@Work MOOC) aims to ignite a conversation about how emerging technology will change the nature of work, the workplace, the future of work and impact society more broadly. While technology has always played a significant role in modernizing the workplace and the work, the speed and magnitude […]
Tags: #Digital Economy #Employment #Online Course #Society #Technology
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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