Program

V World Forum, Science and Democracy

World Social Forum 2018

Salvador, Bahia, March 13 to 17

Place: Tests room / School of Music

Federal university of the Bahia

14/03 – 09:00

I. Opening: Davos ethics and the WSF ethic: what future do we want?

Local organization committee

Online participation:

• Alfred Nordmann (Technische Universität Darmstadt – Germany)
• Ned Ludd (Lucas Plan – UK): “The New Lucas Plan: A Critical Politics of Science and Technology”.

14/03 – 10:00

II. Public participation in science and technology 

In-person participation:

• Renzo Tomellini (EU – Italy): “The development of the future possible framework programme of the European Union on research and innovation: engagements with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations level”.

14/03 – 11:00

III. Science and Technology as a common good – Part 1 

In-person participation:

• Valéria Giannella (UFSB – Brazil), Paulo Dimas Menezes (UFSB): “Ciência como bem comum na perspectiva da ecologia de saberes”.
• Edgar Blaustein (Intercolli): “Science, Societies and Democracy: deepening links between, on the one hand, scientists, engineers and technicians, and on the other hand, social and political movements”.

Online participation:

• Sebastián Zárate & Fernando Rivera (Sidereus Nuncius. Comunidad Peruana de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad): “Lima Makers, el primer maker space peruano”
• Steve Suppan (IATP/USA): “El estado de la ciencia federal en la administración de Trump: los casos de las ciencias agrícolas”.

14/3 – 14:00

IV. Evaluation and governance of new technologies

In-person participation:

• Arline Arcuri (Fundacentro – Brazil) e Jorge Pontes: (Fundacentro – Brasil): “Convergencia tecnológicas e industria 4.0: Como ficam os trabalhadores?”.
• Tânia Magno (UFS/Renansoma – Brazil): “Ciência, Tecnologia e Segurança Alimentar: transgênicos e nanofoods entre a ética científica e os interesses do mercado”.   

Online participation:

• Ineke Malsch (Malsch Technical Evaluation / Holland): “Future technologies we want”.
• David King, Human Genetics Alert (UK) and Marcy Darnovsky (Center for Genetics and Society): “The Threat of GM Babies”.

14/3 – 16:00

V. Science and Technology for social development 

In-person participation:

• Renato Dagnino (Unicamp – Brazil): “Políticas cognitivas (de educação, ciência, tecnologia e inovação) para o desenvolvimento social”.
• Ricardo T. Neder (UnB – Brazil): “Sociologia da ciência e da tecnologia para os movimentos sociais”.

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15/3 – 09:00

VI. Science and Technology as a common good – Part 2 

In-person participation:

• Rogério Bezerra da Silva (MCTP – Brazil): “Ciência e Tecnologia como bem comum: O movimento pela Ciência e Tecnologia Pública”.
• Marc Delepeuve, WFSW, SNESUP-FSU and Transform! Europe e Valerie Lilette: “Promoting the common goods and emancipation: what new orientations and policies of scientific and technological research, from local to global levels?”.

Online participation:

• José Manoel Rodriguez Victoriano (Fundación Asamblea Asamblea Ciudadanos y ciudadanas del Mediterráneo – Spain) – Título a confirmar.

15/03 – 11:00

VII. Regulatory science and democracy 

In-person participation:

• Mauricio Berger (CONICET UC – Argentine), Paulo Fonseca (UFRB – Brazil), Marijane Lisboa (PUC SP – Ciencia Ciudadana Brazil) e Antonio Andrioli (UFFS – Ciencia Ciudadana Brazil): “Ciencia Regulatoria y Ciencia Ciudadana, controversias y disputas entorno a la Regulación basada en la evidencia científica”.
• Fernando Carneiro (UnB – Brasil) – Dossie Abrasco Agrotoxicos.

15/03 – 14:00

VIII. Research, university and democracy policies: global and local conflicts and solidarities – Part 1 

In-person participation:

• Marc Delepeuve (SNESUP-FSU – France): “Faced with the challenges of climate, environment, poverty and armed conflict, the urgency of an exceptional international research project, worth around €1200 billion per year”.
• Thomas Walgreen – University of Helsinki: “The future of democratic University”.

Online participation:

• Carlos Altamirano Allende (ASU – USA): “Energy Transitions in the Anthropocene”.

15/03 – 15:30

IX. Research, university and democracy policies: global and local conflicts and solidarities – Parte 2

In-person participation:

• Tsouria BERBAR (Collectif Interuniversitaire pour la Coopération avec les Universités Palestiniennes – Palestine):  “Que signifie faire de la coopération avec un pays sous occupation?”.
• Teivo Teivanen – University of Helsinki: “Experiencias de Finlandia: luchas sobre democracia en la universidad”.

15/03 – 17:00

X. Final plenary 

• Presentation of the reports of each axis, debate and collective construction of a declaration of the V WFSD.

Disponible en / Available in: French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil)