Cloned meat and milk enter the food chain
This week the UK news channels and press have run a story that raises some serious questions about the regulation of cloning and foodstuffs. It appears that milk produced by the offspring of a cloned cow is (or has been) on sale in UK shops, unmarked and mixed in with other milk. - Read in Press
Bad ideas? A history of scientific discovery
In this posting Jonny Hankins reviews Robert Winston's latest book entitled 'Bad Ideas? An arresting history of our inventions'. - Read in Press 
MIRRORS: New Challenges for Knowledge-based Societies
"Through the Mirrors of Science: New Challenges for Knowledge-based Societies" collects the results achieved during the two-year research activity of the project MIRRORS (Monitoring Ideas Regarding Research Organizations and Reasons in Science). The objective of the project consists of formulating policy strategies for the regulation of technoscientific practice. - Read in News 
Leggi in ItalianoPreventative governance
On Wednesday 7th July, Professor David Guston of the Arizona State University presented the work of the CSPO (Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes) and the CSN-ASU (Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University) at an invitation seminar held here at the Bassetti Foundation... (with slide and photos) - 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
Memory and Responsibility
Last month, with the support of the Bassetti Foundation, more than 60 people met at the Internet Archive in San Francisco to discuss the future of personal digital archives and the implications of innovations and new technologies related to personal and collective memory. ...
I nostri blogBlog's Author: Cristina Grasseni
Practicing Responsibility
In the imminence of the deadline for submitting abstracts (15th March) I bring to our readers' attention the following call for papers, co-organised by the Bassetti Foundation, for a session at the next EASST conference (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology), which will take place in Trento, September 2-4th 2010, in collaboration with STS Italia.
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
Il caso del body scanner
Sempre più spesso assistiamo alla proposta di oggetti e di innovazioni con un altro contenuto tecnologico che richiedono un particolare sapere esperto per la loro realizzazione. Ma nel momento in cui si attiva un dibattito pubblico è inevitabile che non si discuta solo di ragioni tecniche ma emergano questioni di altro tipo: etico, morale, economico e legale.
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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