Rethink, retool, reboot

Rethink, Retool, Reboot presents the evidence and analysis that informs Practical Action’s organisational mission to create a world with Technology Justice: where technology and innovation is used to end poverty and provide a sustainable future for everyone on our planet.

A fifth of the world’s population lacks access to technologies fundamental to a basic standard of living – technologies needed to provide food, water, shelter, health and education.

Technology is a double edged sword. And unfettered use of technology by those who have it brings its own problems – including pollution, global warming and threats to the very possibility of a sustainable future for humanity. 

We urgently need to change how we govern the development and use of technology, using Technology Justice to:

• rethink how we provide access to and govern the use technology today.
• retool – to change our innovation systems to deliver technology that is socially useful and addresses the key challenges of poverty and environmental sustainability.
• Above all, our relationship with technology needs a reboot. We need Technology Justice to provide a radically different approach to our oversight and governance of the development and use of technology.