Shyama Ramani - Technology and social innovations
Channel: UN University
Date: 20/09/2013

Professor Shyama V. Ramani is Professorial Fellow at the United Nations University Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) and Professor of Economics of Health, Life Sciences and Development at Maastricht University.

Prof. Ramani specializes in the economics of innovation, development economics and applied game theory. She has published widely in journals and edited volumes on the relationships between technology, innovation and development. She also created two non-profit organizations; Association 'Un Ami in France' and 'Friend in Need' in India, to help isolated fishing villages along the Indian coast. Prof. Ramani was a laureate of the "Women of the Earth" trophy in 2008, awarded by the Institut de France and the Yves Rocher Foundation.

In this interview for United Nations University Conversation Series on Global Justice, Prof. Ramani explores the role of technology and social innovation in enhancing justice. 

You can find all the other videos in this series by clicking on the playlist link to the right of this video, or simply click on the link bellow:

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