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Capability Association

Agency, Well-Being and Justice

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  1. Technology, Innovation & Design Intro

    …ds to be informed by a better understanding of the complex interactions of products and services, organizations and networks, as well as institutions and cognitive frames so as to better understand the role of design, technology and innovation for human development. To this end, a focus on the more recent concept of social innovation complements the more established analysis of technology and design. Social innovations are new ideas and solutions…

  2. Global Dialogue Week 2023

    …s on people, their fundamental (basic) needs, and the threats to these (Sen 2013, in Gasper 2023).  These threats, and the various forms of vulnerability, risk and well-being requirements people experience, if they are to be the focus of human security approaches, need methodologies for their identification and acting upon.  In exploring this framework, one contemporary debate within human security is the distinction between subjective/ felt/ perc…

  3. Revolutions in Education: New Opportunities for Development? (Maastricht, the Netherlands)

    …oom. Examples of such changes includes the dramatic growth in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), the development of digital badges, the increasing popularity of gamification and the ubiquitous access and use of smart phones and tablets. Can these changes be harnessed to support social and economic development, including improved management skills, entrepreneurial outcomes, and gender equality? Are the confluence of technological and social change…

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