The Slow Race

This pamphlet has built on insights from work with colleagues and partners in developed and developing countries alike over several years. For their contributions to the ideas here, we would especially like to thank members of the Knowledge, Technology and Society (KNOTS) team at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), colleagues at SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) and members of STEPS (Social Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability), our new joint IDS-SPRU research centre at the University of Sussex, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Our hope is that this centre will build a new network to take forward intellectually and practically some of the challenges outlined here. For further insights and cases, and for support to our thinking with partners around issues of citizen engagement with science, our thanks are due to members of the Science and Citizens Programme of the Department for International Development-funded Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability, based at IDS, and to the ESRC Science in Society research programme which helped support its meetings. Further colleagues, funders and partners in projects that helped inspire the pamphlet�s arguments and cases are too numerous to mention, but we are particularly grateful to Gordon Conway, Gary Kass and Andrew Scott for their comments on an early draft. Thanks also to Jack Stilgoe, James Wilsdon and the staff of Demos for seeing the pamphlet through to publication. Finally, though, the pamphlet would not have happened without the support of the Rockefeller Foundation for necessary discussions and writing time through a project on �governing technologies.