VIII Latin American Meeting of Social Studies of Science and Technology ESOCITE 2010
Science and Technology for Social Inclusion in Latin America July 20 – 23, 2010 Buenos Aires www.esocite2010.escyt.org Fifteen years after the first Latin American Meeting of Social Studies of Science and Technology, Buenos Aires will be host again the host for the 2010 ESOCITE Meeting. The growing attendance and the development of new institutions noticed throughout the past meetings, highlights the rising consolidation of the field of Social Studies of Science and Technology within the Latin American countries. Nowadays, the VIII ESOCITE Meeting faces two important challenges: to further strengthen the field of Social Studies of Science and Technology in Latin America and to argue for a public discussion about the role of scientific and technological knowledge in the region, its uses in societies which requires the mobilization of S&T in order to find solutions for long-standing and important problems such as that of democratization, inequality, development and social cohesion, among others.
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