Can emerging technologies make a difference in development? / edited by Rachel A. Parker, Richard P. Appelbaum.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The promise and perils of high-tech approaches to development / Rachel A. Parker and Richard P. Appelbaum -- Creating the future: materials, innovation, and the scientific community / Todd M. Osman -- Rural development, technology, and "policy memory" : anthropological reflections from Bangladesh on technological change / David Lewis -- Achieving equitable outcomes through emerging technologies : a social empowerment approach / Guillermo Foladori -- Emerging technologies and inequalities : beyond the technological transition / Susan Cozzens -- The progress of nanotechnology in China / Chen Wang and Can Huang -- Food security : from the green revolution to nanotechnology / Jennifer Rogers and Amy Zader -- (Nano)technology and food security : what scientists can learn from Malian farmers / Scott M. Lacy -- Innovations for development : the African challenge / Moses Kizza Musaazi -- Nanotechnology for potable water and general consumption in developing countries / Thembela Hillie and Mbhuti Hlophe -- Solid-state lighting : a market-based approach to escaping the "poverty trap" / Dave Irvine Halliday -- Energy for development : the case of bioenergy in Brazil / Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz -- Implications of nanotechnology for labor and employment : assessing nanotechnology products in Brazil / Noela Invernizzi -- Seeking the non-developmental within the developmental : mobile phones in the globalized migration context / Arul Chib and Rajiv G. Aricat -- Responsible innovation, global governance, and emerging technologies / Andrew D. Maynard, Antje Grobe, and Ortwin Renn -- Risk perception, public participation, and sustainable global development of nanotechnologies / Barbara Herr Harthorn, Christine Shearer, and Jennifer Rogers -- Global governance of emerging technologies : from science networking to coordinated oversight / Mihail C. Roco.