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  1. Expert workshop ICT4D and the capability approach

    …pproach in their work. The aim is to identify what has been achieved, in research and practice, on this conceptual and methodological frontier reflect on the ongoing challenges and questions which remain to be addressed. Oranizing committee: Dorothea Kleine, Royal Holloway / University of London, UK Saskia Harmsen, IICD, The Netherlands Ilse Oosterlaken, TU Delft / 3TU.Ethics, The Netherlands For more information: http://ethicsandtechnology.eu/new…

  2. Call for Papers: Conference on the effective implementation of disability rights in Africa

    …ovember 2015, Pretoria, South Africa http://www.up.ac.za/en/faculty-of-law/news/post_2100583-call-for-papers-conference-on-the-effective-implementation-of-disability-rights-in-africa Deadline (Abstracts): 17 July 2015 Authors will be notified by 31 July 2015 whether their abstract has been accepted. Deadline (Papers): 15 September 2015. Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be required to submit their full papers by 15 September 2015. Limited…

  3. UK Development Studies Association conference in Bath

    …many, great wealth for some and exceptional inequality.Their neo-liberal thrust valorises independence and generates increasing populations whose labour appears either surplus or highly insecure, and so rely on forms of social dependence to secure a basic livelihood. Alongside these non-inclusive growth processes new communication technologies have become an important means through which relationships are enacted, reconfiguring notions of national…

  4. Krushil Watene Awarded Rutherford Discovery Fellowship

    …onal justice: Obligations and decision-making. https://royalsociety.org.nz/news/2018-rutherford-discovery-fellowships-to-accelerate-research-careers-announced/ Dr. Watene, Ngāti Manu, Te Hikutu, Ngāti Whātua o Orākei Tonga, says that many of our long-held beliefs, such as the notion that the environment is a resource without limit, fail us under the weight of such things as global climate change and rapid technological advancements. “The impacts o…

  5. HDCA Launches New Website

    …will encourage more active contributions on the part of members, including news items, events and publications. The site now offers more information and materials on the capabilities approach, and we will continue to expand these resources in the months to come. There is still work to be done to transfer all the information from the old site to the new and add some finishing touches. We appreciate your understanding and patience while we complete…

  6. Call for Papers: Journal of Global Ethics Special Issue on Education and Migration

    …factors. It deeply marks all our everyday lives, it is ever present in the news, and it influences elections around the globe. Migration is hotly debated in politics, and so the ethics of migration is also a topic in contemporary moral and political philosophy. The merits of open vs. closed borders, problems of brain drain and territorial rights are familiar foci, but academic debate has largely neglected the matter of education in a world of tran…

  7. Multidimensional poverty measurement in the post-2015 development context – live webcast of side-event at the UN General Assembly

    …a: Bruce Mac Master, Director, Department of Social Prosperity Germany: Gudrun Kopp, Parliamentary Secretary of State Mexico: Gonzalo Hernandez, Director of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) Philippines: Arsenio Balisacan, Minister of Socioeconomic Planning Morocco: Ahmed Lahlimi Alami, High Commissioner of Planning Nigeria: Shamsuddeen Usman, Minister of Planning Chile: Bruno Baranda, Minister of Socia…

  8. New German-speaking CA Network!

    HDCA members based in Salzburg, Austria have recently started an initiative aimed at the establishment of an informal, interdisciplinary, regional, German speaking CA network. For practical reasons it focuses primarily on Austria and Bavaria, but interested people from Baden-Württemberg, Switzerland or South Tyrol are of course also more than welcome. Furthermore, it is not necessary to be a HDCA member to join the network. Please visit https://c…

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