The changes that accompany the formation of increasingly globalized collectives and the concomitant development of information and communication technologies are strategic elements in the transformation of these collectives’ conditions to produce knowledge and information. Due to the importance given to the networks of knowledge production, dissemination and appropriation, it has become strategic to consider those networks, as well as the possibilities and implications that they bring to the forms of economic, social and cultural life, especially to the possibilities of interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and sectorial activities. The purpose here is to present a series of debates on this subject, which refers to the relationship between the production of science, technology, innovation and living conditions, and the need for an extension of the social debate on technoscience, its construction, uses, and the possibilities for the inclusion of new actors in this debate.
science and technology; networks; science production; appropriation of science and technology