"Where are we going?"
The ironic title above hints at the fact that after many years of communication through our own site we have decided to spread the argument of responsibility and innovation through various social networking websites. - More
Posted by Tommaso Correale Santacroce on November 12, 2009 3:19 PM. Permalink
Read also: more depth and Request for Comments on our site.
Leggi in Italiano2007 FGB Grants
Once again this year FGB is making 5 grants available to doctoral candidates and post-docs interested in attending the conference entitled Exercices de métaphysique empirique (autour des travaux de Bruno Latour). The grants are intended to cover the cost of staying at Cerisy-la-Salle for the duration of the conference (June 23 to 30, 2007). - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on April 13, 2007 7:31 AM. Permalink
Leggi in Italiano
Categories Grants
Read also: the similar article in 2009
Leggi in Italiano2011 and Beyond for the Bassetti Foundation
2011 was once more a busy year for the Bassetti Foundation, marking the beginnings of several projects that will run through 2012 and beyond. The following is a review of some of the major events that occurred throughout the year, things to look forward to in the new year now unfolding, a taster of the Foundation's work and a picture of its approach in addressing the problem of responsibility in innovation. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on January 23, 2012 1:06 PM. Permalink
Leggi in Italiano
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, This web site
Read also: Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility by Jeff Ubois
Categories Innovation and politics, Interviews
Read also: Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility by Jeff Ubois
Categories Innovation and politics, Interviews
A discussion with Marta Milani about sport
In view of the news that South African athlete Oscar Pistorius (often referred to as blade runner due to his prosthetic limbs) has run the qualifying time for the 2012 Olympics in London, Jonny Hankins speaks to Italian National 400 metre runner Marta Milani about the human body, technology in sports and their effects upon performance. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on July 20, 2011 2:17 PM. Permalink
Read also: Le lame di Pistorius, and Nature, New Yorker on Cognitive Enhancement
Categories Interviews
A man, his history and his DNA
One of humankind's oldest needs - to know oneself. One of the most modern technologies - the DNA testing of a single individual. This theme was raised during the round table discussion that was held in The Bassetti Foundation conference suite. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on July 2, 2010 9:10 AM. Permalink
Read also: Go Ask Your Father about DNA by Jonny Hankins
leggi in ItalianoA seminar on governance and science at the Bassetti Foundation in Milan
On Friday 15th February 2008, at the premises of the Bassetti Foundation in Milan, Piero Bassetti opened the seminar on Science and Governance introducing Brian Wynne, chairman of the work group that produced the report "Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously" for the European Commission, and Mariachiara Tallacchini, a member of the group and translator of the report into Italian. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on February 21, 2008 10:18 AM. Permalink
A short review: Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility
Last week we put online a new publication of the Foundation Bassetti entitled "Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility", written by Jeff Ubois and available in hard copy, downloadable pdf or Issuu (on line) versions. It is a resume' of conversations conducted between Mr Ubois and 12 internationally renowned innovators and thinkers - More
Posted by Jonny Hankins on January 8, 2010 10:37 AM. Permalink
See also: Jeff Ubois' blog and other FGB publications
Leggi in Italiano
Categories Innovation and politics, Interviews, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
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)
Bio-orthopaedics between innovation and health policies
An interview with Alberto Gobbi. Maria Cristina Paganoni proposes an interview about the current cutting-edge research on regeneration therapies in cartilage damage, the relevant opportunities for a strategic rethinking on health policy in this area, and its impact on the social and collective thinking about issues of health and self care. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on July 29, 2009 11:40 AM. Permalink
See also: Daniel Callahan in FGB
Categories Innovation and politics
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
Leggi in Italiano
Categories Conference, Democracy and Participation
Change makers
by Peter Goldmark. On the Changemakers site, if you click through to Competitions, you will find a series of global competitions seeking proposals to "change" or "improve" a particular system, or approach a specific problem, sponsored usually by a corporation or non-profit agency. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on November 11, 2010 1:02 PM. Permalink
Read also: Workshop on the G. Bassetti Foundation
Categories Public Partecipation
Categories Public Partecipation
Consuming Genomes: Constructing the Genetic Consumer in the United States
On May 16th 2011 Margaret Curnutte gave her talk at the Foundation premises on "Consuming Genomes: Constructing the Genetic Consumer in the United States" as part of her Harvard Bassetti scholarship. Video, photos and other materials - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on July 12, 2011 5:51 PM. Permalink
Read also: Richard R. Nelson in FGB and Responsible Innovation / Sustainable Innovation by Jeff Ubois
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Categories Lecture
Dan Sperber. New ways to describe and structure the societies
by Angela Simone. As if it were recently invented, the word interdisciplinarity can ever more regularly be heard in discussions both outside and within academia. After years of pushing towards... - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on August 29, 2011 1:29 PM. Permalink
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Categories Lecture
Different forms of expertise in democratising technological cultures
On Monday 3rd of May a seminar was held in The Bassetti Foundation conference suite with Dr Wiebe E. Bijker, Professor of Technology and Society at The University of Maastricht in Holland. we now make the video and audio recordings of the seminar available in English. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on May 12, 2010 9:47 PM. Permalink
Read also: Il ruolo degli esperti nella democrazia by Margherita Fronte
Drones and other robots of war
Recently the press has been full of articles addressing the legality or illegality of the military use of unmanned drone aircraft in the war against terror. Their use as well as the use of other human controlled robot weaponry presents a series of ethical, moral, technical and legal problems, often more down to the way they are deployed than the actual machines themselves. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on March 4, 2010 5:57 PM. Permalink
See also: Roboethics blog
Drugs for People, not for Profit.
In this article Jonny Hankins focuses his attention upon a report entitled 'A Bitter Pill To Swallow, Drugs for people, not just for profit'. Published by the think-tank Compass the report offers a critique into the current state of the pharmaceutics industry and the societal responsibility that it bears. - More
Posted by Jonny Hankins on September 10, 2009 11:00 AM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
Read also: Daniel Callahan in FGB
Ethics, Human Enhancement and Genetics. Report and Video
by Virginia Sanchini. The aim of the workshop was to investigate how the latest progress in biotechnologies impacts our understanding of the traditional matters of moral and political philosophy. Report, Video and Photos. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on December 9, 2011 8:39 PM. Permalink
Categories Philosophy, Responsibility and Politics
European Food Safety Authority is launching a public consultation
EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) is launching a public consultation on its draft scientific opinion on the Potential Risks Arising from Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies on Food and Feed safety and the Environment. The work follows a request from the European Commission (EC) to EFSA for advice on this issue in 2007. EFSA's opinion will help inform consideration of any future EU measures in relation to nanotechnologies in the food and feed area. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on November 25, 2008 4:20 PM. Permalink
Read also: Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food in Cristina Grasseni's blog.
Categories Food and Feed, Nanotechnology
Governance and participation in nanotechnology
This is the first of a number of postings that Jonny Hankins will devote to nanotechnologies, their novelty in technoscientific society and their impact on our thinking of responsible innovation. Here, a first look at informative websites and newsletters on nanotechnologies, societal impact and decision making. - More
Posted by Jonny Hankins on April 7, 2008 10:14 AM. Permalink
See also: interviews with Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute on Nanotechnology and with Lawrence Gasman, cofounder of NanoMarkets (by Jeff Ubois)
Categories Nanotechnology, Responsibility and Science
Humanizing Tomorrow's Biomedicine
The Bassetti Foundation is pleased to announce its association with and participation at the 13th International Intensive Course in Bioethics entitled Humanizing Tomorrow's Biomedicine, that takes place between the 13th to the 24th of July 2009 in Udine, Italy. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on July 4, 2009 10:36 AM. Permalink
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Read also: Innovating Food, Innovating the Law
Categories Bioethics, Food and Feed
Innovation and Politics
We publish "Innovation and politics", the second lesson of Piero Bassetti for the Cross-sectional Course of Epistemology of the scientific and technical search of the Politecnico of Milan. A lesson gave in the February of 2006, that will published from Mondadori. This publication follows the previous lesson "La responsabilità nell'innovazione", that you can find in this site. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on May 31, 2007 12:18 PM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
Categories Publication
See also: La responsabilità nell'innovazione
Leggi in Italiano
Innovation may produce unexpected side effects
The latest edition of the economics journal "Project M" features an interview with Foundation President Piero Bassetti. The interview addresses the issues that are closest to The President's heart: how can we firstly define innovation and responsibility and secondly push innovators into thinking ethically about the consequences of their actions, given the possibly far-reaching and unforeseeable effects of their choices and decisions. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on December 11, 2009 11:03 AM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
Categories Innovation and Responsibility
Categories Blogs, Interviews
See also: Argomenti (previous series)
Categories This web site
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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Itinerary: Communicating Science
In light of the Bassetti Foundation's announcement of their involvement in the 2012 Public Communication of Science and Technology Network conference and related call for abstracts for funding, Jonny Hankins reviews some of the related materials available on the foundation website. - More
Posted by Jonny Hankins on June 20, 2011 2:27 PM. Permalink
Read also: itinerary: Conflict of Interest in Science
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
New Developments in Solar Power Technology
In this his second posting on sustainability, Jonny Hankins looks at one of the great challenges facing the renewable energy industry, how to make solar energy production cheaper for the end user. - More
Posted by Jonny Hankins on May 20, 2009 2:28 PM. Permalink
New version of our website
Dear readers or visitors, at the end of August we launched a new version of our website featuring several changes to our graphics and site layout. You will surely notice that the menu items have changed... - More
Posted by Tommaso Correale Santacroce on September 21, 2007 7:51 PM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
Categories Innovation and Responsibility
Our Web Site is Changing Layout and Structure
The Giannino Bassetti Foundation is working through various channels, to promote the subject of Responsible Innovation. The evolution of Foundation's work is reflected in an evolution of its graphic image and editorial structure. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on November 26, 2006 11:07 AM. Permalink
Categories This web site
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
Leggi in Italiano
Categories Democracy and Participation, Innovation and politics
Preventative 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... - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on July 16, 2010 4:42 PM. Permalink
Read also: The Rightful Place Of Science Conference, Regulating nanotechnology through private actors? by B. Laurent and Responsibility in Innovation interview with L. Gasman
Leggi in ItalianoProceedings of The Network Society, Business, Innovation and Responsibility' conference
In this the first of two postings reporting the proceedings of the conference entitled 'The Network Society, Business, Innovation and Responsibility', Jonny Hankins provides a summary of the speakers' presentations. - More
Posted by Jonny Hankins on November 25, 2009 9:02 AM. Permalink
Read also: Innovazione e creatività
Prof. Colin Sage on Food and McMeekin
The following comment was written and sent to the Bassetti Foundation by Prof. Colin Sage, senior lecturer within the Geography Department at University College Cork, and refers to the interview with Prof. Andrew McMeekin posted on this site on 20th april 2011. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on May 26, 2011 9:39 PM. Permalink
Categories Food and Feed, Sustainability
Regulating nanotechnology through private actors?
by Brice Laurent. While some public officials claim that the potential risks of nanotechnology will be managed as early as possible, numerous questions are raised about the relevance of existing regulation for the many different nano-products. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on February 23, 2009 10:50 AM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
Read also: Asking the relevant questions about public participation by Brice Laurent
Categories Nanotechnology, Responsibility and Science
Responsibility and innovation: a business perspective
In March 2011 prof. Andrew McMeekin was kind enough to participate in a conversation with Jonny Hankins in which he discussed (amongst other things) innovation, responsibility, sustainability and governance. - More
Posted by Jonny Hankins on April 20, 2011 10:25 AM. Permalink
Categories Interviews
Responsibility and innovation: a business perspective (part 2)
In March 2011 prof. Andrew McMeekin was kind enough to participate in a conversation with Jonny Hankins in which he discussed (amongst other things) innovation, responsibility, sustainability and governance. This is the second part. - More
Posted by Jonny Hankins on April 21, 2011 10:33 AM. Permalink
Categories Interviews
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.
Leggi in Italiano
Responsible Innovation / Sustainable Innovation
This is the paper that Jeff Ubois presented last November 2010 at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. The presentation was part of the panel organized by Cristina Orsatti entitled 'Sustainable Innovations: Forging Partnerships, Knowledge Exchange, And Reciprocity'. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on February 2, 2011 6:10 PM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
Read also: Jeff Ubois' blog
Categories Conference
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
Categories Democracy and Participation
Robotics. A new science
On 20th February an important conference on robotics took place in Rome entitled "Robotics: A New Science". The event was conceived as a seminar whose objective was that of discussing the contemporary development of robotics within the framework of recent scientific and technological developments in the informatics, telecommunication, software and electronics sectors. In this article Fiorella Operto explains the principal points of discussion. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on May 15, 2008 9:36 AM. Permalink
See also: Robot: il corpo e l'anima, a dialogue with Fiorella Operto by Borrello and Correale Santacroce, and Dal Golem all'intelligenza artificiale
Leggi in Italiano
Categories Roboethics
See also: dialogo on line con Fiorella Operto (in Italian)
Satellite traffic problems
On February 10th there was a traffic accident of a new type. Two satellites were involved, one an American "Iridium" communications satellite and the other an abandoned Russian "Cosmos" military satellite. The American satellite was still in use but the Russian machine had been out of service since 1995 and was no longer actively controlled. It had been launched on 16th June 1993 and was in service for 2 years. The crash took place 491miles above Siberia in one of the most popular orbits for these types of vehicle (military, weather and communications). - More
Posted by Jonny Hankins on February 24, 2009 12:01 PM. Permalink
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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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
Leggi in Italiano
Sustainable innovations: forging partnerships, knowledge exchange, and reciprocity
These are the abstracts of the papers presented in the panel "Sustainable Innovations: Forging Partnerships, Knowledge Exchange, And Reciprocity". The panel was presented at the 2010 American Anthropological Association Annual... - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on February 10, 2011 3:36 PM. Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Sustainability
That was the year that was
2009 was a busy year for the foundation. The following review aims at giving the reader an overview of the foundation's work by looking at its involvement in conferences, seminars, publications, education and the promotion of debate throughout the year. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on January 17, 2010 4:46 PM. Permalink
Read also: FGB Newsletter
Leggi in italianoThe Bassetti Foundation at the Centre Culturel International of Cerisy-La -Salle
The Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle is an international conference and research centre, animated by a cultural association which dates back to 1952, the Association des Amis de Pontigny-Cerisy la... - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on March 7, 2007 9:58 AM. Permalink
See also: Bruno Latour in FGB
The Marrakech Process on sustainable consumption and production
Interpreting responsibility as sustainability, Jonny Hankins takes a look at a global project coordinated by the United Nations and going by the name of the Marrakech project. - More
Posted by Jonny Hankins on April 10, 2009 11:33 AM. Permalink
Read also: Ethical Leadership by Ervin Laszlo and By Any Other Name in Jeff Ubois' blog.
Categories Sustainability
The Politics of Science and the re-definition of democracy (part 1)
The fourth Lecture of the Fondazione Giannino Bassetti will feature prof. Sheila Jasanoff, professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, one of the authors of the report to the EU "Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously". Mariachiara Tallacchini offers here an introduction to Jasanoff's STS approach. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on April 21, 2008 10:07 AM. Permalink
See also: Science and Governance: The report for the European Commission presented at the Bassetti Foundation
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The Politics of Science and the re-definition of democracy (part 2)
The fourth Lecture of the Fondazione Giannino Bassetti will feature prof. Sheila Jasanoff, professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, one of the authors of the report to the EU "Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously". Mariachiara Tallacchini offers here an introduction to Jasanoff's STS approach. (Part 2) - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on April 28, 2008 12:02 PM. Permalink
See also: Science and Governance: The report for the European Commission presented at the Bassetti Foundation
Leggi in Italiano
Categories Lecture
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Public Partecipation, Responsibility and Science, Sustainability
What's the social and ethical responsibility of basic science?
by Maximilian Fochler. At the Euroscience Open Forum 2008 in Barcelona a group of leading scholars from the sciences, as well as from the interdisciplinary field of Social Studies of Science (STS), gathered to debate the social and ethical responsibility of basic research - a question of vital importance for wider debates on how contemporary societies may best govern processes of innovation and their ethical and social implications. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on October 21, 2008 3:08 PM. Permalink
See also: Sheila Jasanoff in FGB and Science and Governance: The report for the European Commission presented at the Bassetti Foundation with Brian Wynne
Categories Forum
Without risk there is no progress
In this his second posting on nanotechnology, Jonny Hankins looks at the work of the International Risk Governence Council, their white paper on risk governance and their policy brief on nanotechnology risk governance. - More
Posted by Jonny Hankins on July 29, 2008 9:42 AM. Permalink
See also: Governance and participation in nanotechnology and the interview with Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute on Nanotechnology (by Jeff Ubois)
Categories Nanotechnology
