Socioeconomic divide

The question for your video is:

What do you get if you can't pay?

Is nano a good solution for alleviating harsh living conditions in poor countries? How should we use it? Who should pay?

To get started, consider the following questions and resources:

•  What causes the divide in the world? Can we still talk about a “western world” and a “developing world”? Have a look at this video by Hans Rosling for a new perspective on this topic:

• If treatments for diseases such as typhus, cholera and polio are already existent, should we invest more money to develop other equivalent nano-treatments? Nanoscience and technology can give us medicines at lower cost, and not only to cure first-world diseases. There are diseases, such as the African trypanosomes, whose treatment would be greatly advanced by any achievement in drug delivery to the brain.

• Look here for a possible approach to the issue of patents and intellectual property rights. 

• Look at www.nanoyou.eu for more experiments, games and activities on nanotechnology.