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Asymmetries in North-South Research Partnerships: Limits and Opportunities

International aid agencies and bilateral donors are taking a stronger interest in promoting the 'knowledge economy' worldwide. Whereas bilateral donors, such as the Netherlands and Switzerland governments have had a longer-standing interests in North-South knowledge networks, the World Bank introduced the Global Development Network in the last ten years. A major question is what effects the asymmetries in such North-South research networks have on the way knowledge is created, spread and absorbed.

In this panel, several speakers will be dealing with the issues of privatization of knowledge, agenda-setting in determining research priorities, institutional capacities and capacity building, and the processes of partnering.

Chair:

Isa Baud
Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan
and International Development Studies (AMIDSt)
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Studies
University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Speakers:

Desmond McNeill
Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM)
Norway
"The Role of the GDN as Global Partnership"

Louk de la Rive Box
Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
The Netherlands
"Dutch Experiences in North-South Research Partnerships (comparing RAWOO, MMRP, IDPAD, SANPAD)"

Claudia Zingerli and H. Andrés Uzeda V.A.
University of Zurich
Switzerland
"Sociology of International Research Partnerships for Sustainable Development"

B. Becker and L. Diby
ETH Zürich/Swiss Centre for Scientific Research
Switzerland/Ivory Coast
"North-South Partnerships - A Comparative Perspective"

Organizers:

Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt)
The Netherlands

Centre of African Studies (CAS)
United Kingdom

Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM)
Norway

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
Switzerland


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