Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development (Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society, 2)

Nanotechnology is enabling applications in materials, microelectronics, health, and agriculture, which are projected to create the next big shift in production, comparable to the industrial revolution. Such major shifts always co-evolve with social relationships. This book focuses on how nanotechnologies might affect equity/equality in global society. Nanotechnologies are likely to open gaps by gender, ethnicity, race, and ability status, as well as between developed and developing countries, unless steps are taken now to create a different outcome. Organizations need to change their practices, and cultural ideas must be broadened if currently disadvantaged groups are to have a more equal position in nano-society rather than a more disadvantaged one. Economic structures are likely to shift in the nano-revolution, requiring policymakers and participatory processes to invent new institutions for social welfare, better suited to the new economic order than those of the past. Contexts Of Equity : Thinking About Organizational And Technoscience Contexts For Gender Equity In Biotechnolgy And Nanotechnology / Laurel Smith-doerr -- Women And Patenting In Nanotechnology : Scale, Scope And Equity / Yu Meng And Philip Shapira -- Potential Implications For Equity In The Nanotechnology Workforce In The U.s. / Sonia Gatchair -- Exploring Societal Impact Of Nanomedicine Using Public Value Mapping / Catherine P. Slade -- Ableism And Favoritism For Abilities Governance, Ethics And Studies : New Tools For Nanoscale And Nanoscale-enabled Science And Technology Governance / Gregor Wolbring -- I Will Go Further / Yonex Corporation Usa -- Nanotechnology And The Extension And Transformation Of Inequity / Georgia Miller And Gyorgy Scrinis -- Nanotechnology And The Sixth Technological Revolution / Mark Knell -- Innovation, Growth, And Inequality : Plausible Scenarios Of Wage Disparities In A World With Nanotechnologies / Walter D. Valdivia --^ Metropolitan Development Of Nanotechnology : Concentration Or Dispersion? / Jan Youtie And Philip Shapira -- The Role Of Organized Workers In The Regulation Of Nanotechnologies / Guillermo Foladori And Edgar Zayago Lau -- Etuc Resolution On Nanotechnologies And Nanomaterials / European Trade Union Confederation -- Materializing Nano Equity : Lessons From Design / Dean Nieusma -- Public Perceptions Of Fairness In Nbic Technologies / Ravtosh Bal -- Equity And Participation In Decisions : What Can Nanotechnology Learn From Biotechnology In Kenya? / Matthew Harsh -- Nanotechnology : How Prepared Is Uganda? / Kikonyogo Ngatya -- Nanotechnology And The Poor : Opportunities And Risks For Developing Countries / Todd F. Barker ... [et Al.] -- Science Policy And Social Inclusion : Advances And Limits Of Brazilian Nanotechnology Policy / Noela Invernizzi -- The Potential Of Nanotechnology For Equitable Economic Development : The Case Of Brazil / Luciano Kay And Philip Shapira --^ Open Access Nanotechnology For Developing Countries : Lessons From Open Source Software / Dhanaraj Thakur -- Southern Roles In Global Nanotechnology Innovation : Perspectives From Thailand And Australia / Donald C. Maclurcan -- How Can Nanotechnologies Fulfill The Needs Of Developing Countries? / David J. Grimshaw , Lawrence D. Gudza, And Jack Stilgoe -- Technical Education And Indian Society : The Role Of Values / Raghubir Sharan, Yashowanta N. Mohapatra, And Jameson M. Wetmore -- Keeping The Dream Alive : What Elsi-research Might Learn From Parliamentary Technology Assessment / Rinie Van Est -- Nanotech Ethics And The Policymaking Process : Lessons Learned For Advancing Equity And Equality In Emerging Nanotechnologies / Evan S. Michelson -- Building Equity And Equality Into Nanotechnology / Susan E. Cozzens. Susan E. Cozzens, Jameson M. Wetmore, Eds. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xxx Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Contexts of Equity: Thinking About Organizational and Technoscience Contexts for Gender Equity in Biotechnology and Nanotechnology....Pages 3-22 Women and Patenting in Nanotechnology: Scale, Scope and Equity....Pages 23-46 Potential Implications for Equity in the Nanotechnology Workforce in the U.S.....Pages 47-68 Exploring Societal Impact of Nanomedicine Using Public Value Mapping....Pages 69-88 Ableism and Favoritism for Abilities Governance, Ethics and Studies: New Tools for Nanoscale and Nanoscale-enabled Science and Technology Governance....Pages 89-104 i Will Go Further....Pages 105-106 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 Nanotechnology and the Extension and Transformation of Inequity....Pages 109-126 Nanotechnology and the Sixth Technological Revolution....Pages 127-143 Innovation, Growth, and Inequality: Plausible Scenarios of Wage Disparities in a World with Nanotechnologies....Pages 145-164 Metropolitan Development of Nanotechnology: Concentration or Dispersion?....Pages 165-180 The Role of Organized Workers in the Regulation of Nanotechnologies....Pages 181-198 ETUC Resolution on Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials....Pages 199-205 Front Matter....Pages 207-207 Materializing Nano Equity: Lessons from Design....Pages 209-230 Public Perceptions of Fairness in NBIC Technologies....Pages 231-249 Equity and Participation in Decisions: What Can Nanotechnology Learn from Biotechnology in Kenya?....Pages 251-269 Nanotechnology: How Prepared Is Uganda?....Pages 271-273 Front Matter....Pages 275-275 Nanotechnology and the Poor: Opportunities and Risks for Developing Countries....Pages 277-290 Science Policy and Social Inclusion: Advances and Limits of Brazilian Nanotechnology Policy....Pages 291-307 The Potential of Nanotechnology for Equitable Economic Development: The Case of Brazil....Pages 309-329 Open Access Nanotechnology for Developing Countries: Lessons from Open Source Software....Pages 331-347 Front Matter....Pages 275-275 Southern Roles in Global Nanotechnology Innovation: Perspectives from Thailand and Australia....Pages 349-378 How Can Nanotechnologies Fulfill the Needs of Developing Countries?....Pages 379-391 Technical Education and Indian Society: The Role of Values....Pages 393-406 Front Matter....Pages 407-407 Keeping the Dream Alive: What ELSI-Research Might Learn from Parliamentary Technology Assessment....Pages 409-421 Nanotech Ethics and the Policymaking Process: Lessons Learned for Advancing Equity and Equality in Emerging Nanotechnologies....Pages 423-432 Building Equity and Equality into Nanotechnology....Pages 433-446 Back Matter....Pages 447-457