RHODECAR: Creating employment through waste management – INGSA Case Study with Mentor Notes
RHODECAR: Creating employment through waste management – INGSA Case Study with Mentor Notes
CARBONERIA – Competing technology-based economic proposals with multiple stakeholders – INGSA Case Study
The carbon rich product known as ‘bio-char’ is produced by burning organic matter (e.g. farming or forestry by-product biomass) at a high temperature in an oxygen-controlled environment in a process that also produces pyrolysis (gasification). Indeed, it is similar to the process of making charcoal, which ist hen tilled into the soil. This technique has…
TANGERIA – Gene-editing and the Climate Response: Science, Values and Politics – INGSA Case Study
The National Agricultural Research Institute of Tangeria (NARIT) wishes to test the new varieties of super-maize and pasture grass produced by gene-editing. The institute has been promised strong financial support from TAACI who are prepared to meet 75% of the development costs. There is also interest from UN organisations that are promoting better responses to…
GONSWANA – Food insecurity and new technologies – INGSA Case Study
A research consortium including eminent experts from the National University of Gonswana recently announced that it was about to launch the final phase of its new locust control method. Using a gene editing technique, the researchers were able to alter the pheromone gene leading to the development of locust swarms. When locusts whose gene has…
NJAGALA – Youth and Social Media – INGSA Case Study
The President has instituted a 20% Over The Top (OTT) tax on those using social media platforms effective immediately. Other uses of the internet (e.g. email) are not 3 subject to this tax. The stated reason for this new tax is to increase the amount of domestic tax collected in the country so that it…
KASSEMBLE – Integrating traditional techniques into curricula to address unemployment and poverty – INGSA Case Study
The prime minister of Kassemblé has made actions to reduce unemployment his key focus and is working to establish large-scale policiesinvolving a number of government departments to stabilize economic growth and lower the unemployment rate. He turns to you, his scientific advisor, for advice on the current situation and initiatives to lower unemployment rates.
RESOURCIA – Powering Change – Immigration, Labour and Social Cohesion in a resource town
Across the globe, the Kingdom of Crossroads is in deep political crisis. Rebels are threatening to overthrow the governing dynasty; while the dynasty, supported by the army, is retaliating by indiscriminate attacks on Northern Crossroads, an identified rebel stronghold. For over a year the civilian population has been fleeing Northern Crossroads. This mountainous region is…
SARATERRA – La cybersécurité à l’ère de l’ordinateur quantique – INGSA Case Study
SARATERRA – La cybersécurité à l’ère de l’ordinateur quantique Rédaction : Karl Thibault, Jessica Baril et Christian Sarra-Bournet
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