Piloting Knowledge Swaraj

C Shambu PrasadXIMB – KICS

SET DEV seminar March 29, 2011

Process of pilots

• Led by civil society organisations with support from academia.

• Concept notes, proposals, interim reports 1&2, case study workshops in Nov 17-18, April 18, revised and reworked

• Piloting Knowledge Swaraj Handbook• Reviewed in Nov internally• Revised case studies updated and finalised

March 2011

The Five pilotsHysterectomy in Rural AP •Technoscience, medical ethics, violence

•Technological responsibility

Reconstructing Knowledge in BE •Plurality and peoples choices•Experts and sustainability in disasters (guidelines..)

Democratising Water sector •Civil society in providing alternatives•Engaging expertise in water (process guidelines), citizen engagements in rivers (enacting expertise

Five Pilots contd…

Democratising Climate Change

•Big science, little science (human scale)revisited•Ethics and sustainability•Decentralised options and markets

Perceptions on ecological farming

•Whose knowledge counts?•Sustainability and engaging expertise

SET DEV workshops

Medical ethics team brought CWS to work with NIN closely – civil society entered CSIR labs… Jan 2010

Climate change FGD (Feb 22, 2010) – Bringing scientists to speak and dialogue with citizens

Whose Knowledge Counts? Mainstreaming Knowledge swaraj – Hyd March 2010

How do we foreground medical ethics?TWOWS meeting December 2010

Taking climate change debates to people & Peoples ethics and Gandhi to Copenhagen

Socialising science in India: Some lessons

• Science and innovation need knowledge dialogues and different kinds of expertise

• Few spaces that allow for dialogues – from commissions and councils to dialogues and Gyan Panchayats

• Science policy as articulating swaraj• Socialisation needs newer institutions and

capacities• Can benefit from many CSO experiences