Mapping Controversies, an interview with Vincent Antonin Lepinay
Mapping Controversies in Science and Technology for Politics is the title of an EU sponsored project. Jonny Hankins interviewed Vincent Antonin Lepinay, lecturer on the course. - More
Posted by Jonny Hankins on January 30, 2012 11:21 AM. Permalink
Read also: Bruno Latour in FGB
Asking the relevant questions about public participation
by Brice Laurent. Participatory experiments in nanotechnology have been numerous, but their outcomes are uncertain. Some have criticized the little interest these mechanisms have received in policy circles. The Grenoble case is telling for that matter. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on January 28, 2009 3:21 PM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
See also: the interview with Christine Peterson by Jeff Ubois, Governance and participation in nanotechnology by Jonny Hankins, Nanotechnology in this site (2005)
Responsible Innovation and Participatory Democracy. Daniel P. Mulhollan in FGB
Daniel Mulhollan, Director of the Congressional Research Service at the Library of the US Congress, will be the guest of the Giannino Bassetti Foundation in Milan on 3rd December 2008, within the scientific framework of the research project I forum consultivi come strumento di fiducia, promoted by IRER - the Regional Research Institute of Lombardy. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on November 28, 2008 11:52 AM. Permalink
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Responsibility and uncertainty: new perspectives upon responsible action
Maria Antonietta Foddai, professor of the philosophy of law in the faculty of law at the University of Sassari offers a rich reflection on the modern concept of responsibility, offering a new approach to the problem: the construction of responsibility must derive from within a social common project. The new subject of responsibility therefore becomes an "us" that shares responsible action. Nicole Lozzi met her on behalf of the Bassetti Foundation. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on September 6, 2008 7:56 AM. Permalink
See also: "New rites for democracy?" and "'Audit Cultures', a cura di Marilyn Strathern" in Grasseni's blog.
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Building a bridge between science and society
By Roberta Gabbatore. On Thursday 14th February 2008 in the splendid setting of the ex monastery of Saint Augustine (now part of the University) in Bergamo's upper town the conference "Building a bridge between science and society. Looking for the foundations of the communication of science" took place. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on February 27, 2008 3:56 PM. Permalink
See also: Science and Governance: the EU report presented at FGB. Interview with Mariachiara Tallacchini and the page in Events dei materiali su convegno e seminario
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Science and Governance: the provocation of responsibility.
Conversation with Mariachiara Tallacchini. "Within the cultural horizons of the European Commission the STS point of view was missing; no report had ever used the science and technology studies perspective. Nicole Dewandre who was in charge of Science and Governance within the Directorate General for Research, was given the mandate to commission an expert group coordinated by Brian Wynne, which could be the European and international expression of this approach. [...] Our thesis is that the public fear of science is not produced by a deficit of knowledge, but by the doubts that the citizens feel in relation to the institutions themselves..." - More
Posted by Valentina Porcellana on February 9, 2008 2:41 PM. Permalink
See also: article by Valentina Porcellana
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Categories: Democracy and Participation, Responsibility and Science
Science and Governance: the EU report on Science and Governance presented at FGB
The driving force of the science on the economic and social development compelled politics and laws to set rules for the technoscience and its innumerable deployments. The "Science and Governance Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously" Report, committed by the European Commission, meet the exigence of reflecting in a responsible way about the links between science and society. The Italian transalation will be presented at the Giannino Bassetti Foundation headquarters by the science sociologist Brian Wynne and by the jurist Mariachiara Tallacchini. - More
Posted by Valentina Porcellana on February 1, 2008 10:40 AM. Permalink
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Categories: Democracy and Participation, Responsibility and Science
Political responsibility in innovation: a challenge for the new Statute of the Region of Lombardy
Political responsibility in innovation is a challenge for the new Statute of the Region of Lombardy. The debate on this issue that the Giannino Bassetti Foundation has been promoting for some time now has led to important political developments: the issue of deliberative democracy lies at the heart of political interest today... - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on July 31, 2007 6:36 PM. Permalink
See also: Innovazione tecnico scientifica e democrazia e Partecipazione Pubblica e Governance dell'Innovazione
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Categories: Democracy and Participation, Innovation and politics
Is responsible innovation participatory, and if so, how?
Is responsible innovation participatory, and if so, how? Interviewed on his decade-long work on the history of science and its relevance to issues such as secrecy, scientist's responsibility, public understanding... - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on March 10, 2007 2:36 PM. Permalink
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