28 Seeds, a review of the event
This week saw the final evening of an extremely successful Boston Center for the Arts run of the multimedia event entitled "28 Seeds" - Read in News
Architectures for Life with 23andMe, a Report
On the 17th of April Jonny Hankins attended a lecture given by Anne Wojcicki, CEO of direct to consumer genetics company 23andMe and a follow-on workshop. This is his report. - Read in Focus 
Safeguarding Venice, the Mose Project
On March 20th 2012 MIT hosted an event entitled 'The Safeguarding of Venice and its Lagoon: The Mose System' and Jonny Hankins was present as representative of the Bassetti Foundation. - Read in News 
A Conversation with Pallavi Phartiyal
In this post Jonny Hankins speaks to Pallavi Phartiyal of the Union of Concerned Scientists about their new Center for Science and Democracy. - Read in Focus 
International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference
Notes on the Bassetti Foundation promoted panel in Florence, Italy, 20th April 2012. In drawing the framework for the seminar we began from a passage that we retain necessary, that of the passage from the individual responsibility held by the communicator to the stronger collective responsibility of the system. - Read in Focus 
Leggi in ItalianoOur blogs
The area of the site reserved to the blogs is dedicated to the dialogue between the authors of the GBF and the visitors of the site. Here the various threads of the arguments posted on the concepts and experiences attaining the responsibility in innovation are tied and untied. So the readers are asked to contribute to the growth of ideas. In this section of the Home Page you can read the presentation of the last contributions by clicking on the names of the authors here nearby. And now, read and write!
Our blogsBlog's Author: Jeff Ubois
Notes from the Responsible Innovation Conference
The Responsible Innovation conference, held in Den Haag April 18-19, 2011, was a milestone in discussions of responsible innovation.
I nostri blogBlog's Author: Cristina Grasseni
Practicing Responsibilities: social engagement, controversy and innovation
At the Trento EASST conference, held 1-4th September 2010, workshop/track 32. "Practicing Responsibilities" was co-chaired by Cristina Grasseni (University of Bergamo / Bassetti Foundation); Luca Guzzetti (University of Genova) and Giuseppe Pellegrini (University of Padova) within the theme "social engagement, controversy and innovation".
I nostri blogBlog's Author: Tommaso Correale Santacroce
Invisibile
In questo diablogo si parla della responsabilità con cui si dovrebbe affrontare la trasmissione della conoscenza. Nel caso delle nuove tecnologie e il loro utilizzo come armi si reclama un urgente sviluppo del dibattito etico in modo da permettere scelte e posizioni di coscienza.
I nostri blogBlog's Author: Giuseppe Pellegrini
Climate change and public involvement
The Accent project promoted by the European Science Centre. Climate change issues are clearly a growing concern for the public today. In recent years, people have received a great deal of information from media on the causes and consequences of climate change, but - depending on countries and regions - citizens' understanding and engagement in these topics is still varied.
I nostri blogBlog's Author: Roboethics
The mechanization of Empathy in Health Care - 2. Takanori Shibata
Second part of the report on "technology and empathy in the context of health care" held in January. During the conference, Dr. Shibata presented essential aspects of the idea of a "Robot Therapy". Dr. Shibata is Senior Researcher at Japan's Institute of Advanced Industrial Sciences and Technology AIST (Tsukuba, Japan). He is the inventor of PARO.
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