Towards a new model of governance to manage new technologies in organizations - Part 5. Conclusion
We argued that the risks and challenges of digitally interoperable enterprise architectures that define the environment of contemporary organisations cannot be understood solely by looking at the traditional distinction between... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on December 29, 2007 3:30 PM. Permalink
Towards a new model of governance to manage new technologies in organizations - Part 4. Putting it all together
The issues briefly sketched above lead us to discuss the risk and challenges for the creation digitally interoperable enterprise architecture between the public and the private sectors along three key... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on November 30, 2007 2:15 PM. Permalink
Towards a new model of governance to manage new technologies in organizations - Part 3. Federated, concentric and platform organisations
Building the internal capabilities, technical architecture, service delivery, planning and contract monitoring to achieve this ambition will require a governance framework encompassing a wide spectrum of arrangements, including the measurement... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on October 29, 2007 9:40 AM. Permalink
Towards a new model of governance to manage new technologies in organizations - Part 2: New technologies in organisations: issues and perspectives
Global ICT Programmes require the intersection of information infrastructures well beyond the conventional boundaries of institutions and organisations, which are typically demarcated by the legal (or contractual) boundary of their purposes and activities. - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on September 30, 2007 4:06 PM. Permalink
Towards a new model of governance to manage new technologies in organizations - Part 1: Introduction
According to a recent report of the META Group Inc. (2006) , requirements for digital interoperability between the public and private sectors will drive enterprise architecture over the next years, impacting 50% of the Fortune 500 companies and extending into the global domain. - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on July 31, 2007 11:03 PM. Permalink
Towards a New Model of Management for the Governance of Innovation. Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
Over the past few years the blog 'Innovation, Risk and Governance' has explored a variety of topics, but it is possible to identify two core (although not always necessarily related)... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on February 15, 2007 8:04 AM. Permalink
Experiments Without Borders? Ethical and Participatory Approaches to New Technologies
Sheila Jasanoff delivered the BIOS Annual Lecture chaired by Nikolas Rose at the London School of Economics. The title parallels some of the issues that have been recently discussed by the Giannino Bassetti Foundation's web-site about 'Science, Politics & Responsibility'. - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on November 26, 2006 4:33 PM. Permalink
Science, Politics and Responsibility: An Agenda for the Governance of Innovation and Technology
About the governance of innovation and technology, we will try to explore the tensions surrounding this debate and suggest some definitions to help the reader go through the maze of conflicting interpretations. - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on March 7, 2006 12:19 PM. Permalink
See also: Which Responsibility?
Categories Politics, Responsibility
An extract from the Oxford English Dictionary about the definition of the term 'policy'
III. 8. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 5) policy decision, document, -maker, -making, statement; policy-making adj.; policy science (see quot. 1951); hence policy scientist. 1960 I. JEFFERIES Dignity & Purity... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on March 6, 2006 12:26 PM. Permalink
Categories Policy
On the Governance of Scientific Innovation and the Avoidance of Irresponsibility (PART 2)
It is widely acknowledged that in a number of countries trust in political organisations has recently declined. Some are under attack as a result of their non-compliance with issues of... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on July 5, 2005 7:26 PM. Permalink
Categories Responsibility
On the Governance of Scientific Innovation and the Avoidance of Irresponsibility (PART 1)
At the centre of the debate within the EU as well as across the Atlantic is a rising problematisation of the definition of roles and responsibilities over the way in... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on June 1, 2005 7:23 PM. Permalink
Categories Responsibility
The democratic responsibility of scientific power
Public governance of science challenges the very same definition of what is considered scientific, and therefore in a variety of respects, elitist, closed and unaccountable to the laymen before the... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on May 1, 2005 11:53 AM. Permalink
Categories Governance
Terri Schiavo: Innovation, Decision Making and the Future of Ethics
Across the Atlantic, people are shocked to watch in real time the 'phasing out' of Terri Schiavo, which has been declared as living in a 'vegetative state' as a result... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on April 2, 2005 11:32 AM. Permalink
Categories Ethics
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Categories Governance
Reflecting on the Risk and Sustainability of Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare
The often mentioned need to innovate and reform health systems is the consequence of three main aspects affecting modern societies. An aging population, changes in technology and the reduction of... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on February 16, 2005 9:49 PM. Permalink
Categories Governance
A Tribute to Claudio Ciborra, the Scientist and the Man
Claudio Ciborra, Professor and Convenor of Information Systems at LSE, died in Milan, his hometown, on Sunday 13th February 2005, aged 53; losing his battle against cancer. In this unfortunate... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on February 16, 2005 11:25 AM. Permalink
Innovation, Knowledge and Intellectual Property: the Risks of WTO Regulations
Intellectual property is the cornerstone of the modern knowledge economy. Digital information resources, from software to ideas and other creative works, databases, etc... are notoriously characterised by massive fixed costs... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on January 15, 2005 3:06 PM. Permalink
Categories Risk
Bio- & Nano-Technology: who should decide and who will pay?
The convergence of biology, computing and robotics is the kernel of the recent progresses that applications from biotechnology to nanotechnology have produced in relation to their perceived opportunities, risks and... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on November 12, 2004 1:15 PM. Permalink
Categories Nanotechnology
An Alternative E-Governance Plan For The Nation (by Satish Jha, India [*])
Most developing countries cannot afford to develop applications that will help them make use of the potential of ICTs. Once again the divide between the developed and teh developing economies is going to widen further. But this time around its easier to put the developing countries on a time-collapsingcourse where they can quickly move up the experience curve. That requires thinking differently. As of now these developing countries are experimenting with Toy Applications that contribute little to productivity. They need a programme to help them move up the learning curve. - More
Posted by Amministratore on September 10, 2004 3:37 AM. Permalink
Categories Governance
Conceptualising Governance: A theoretical and practical agenda
The context we refer to for the term governance is necessarily global. Governance is generally understood as a broad process affecting the collective decision-making roles and procedures, management and authority... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on September 9, 2004 5:53 PM. Permalink
Categories Governance
Categories Risk
Categories Practice
On the Governance of International Business Standards, a letter by Sunil Bedi
I have been concerned about governance of international business standards. Here are my thoughts: The article raised issues that will become increasingly significant in defining international commerce and related exchanges.... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on April 13, 2004 6:26 PM. Permalink
Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India's agricultural markets - Part 6: Conclusions and suggestions
In conclusion, the introduction of modern biotechnology might not increase food production, but has the potential to reduce the impact of production methods associated with the (not so) Green Revolution... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on April 7, 2004 4:52 PM. Permalink
Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India's agricultural markets - Part 5: Policy Implications
As a member of WTO, India has opted for a sui generis intellectual property legislation stated in The Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Act of 2001. According to this... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on April 6, 2004 7:10 PM. Permalink
Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India's agricultural markets - Part 4: Analysis of global governance and local institutions: the relevance of appropriability
In India, not many firms inbred lines themselves except for the foreign suppliers. In turn, this raises a number of issues and affects the availability of crop variety to farmers... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on April 5, 2004 7:12 PM. Permalink
Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India's agricultural markets - Part 3:The international dimension and its interdependencies with the local context
Innovations and new plant varieties are of great importance to increase farmers' income and promote wealth creation in general, unfortunately purchasing new inputs or labor is often a drawback that... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on April 4, 2004 4:38 PM. Permalink
Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India's agricultural markets - Part 2: The reality of India - poison can be sweet too!
Cruising around the mustard fields of Rajastan, discovering the enchanted rice fields of Karnataka or finding your way through the jungle in the hilly north west part of Tamil Nadu... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on April 3, 2004 7:55 AM. Permalink
Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India's agricultural markets - Part 1: Introduction
Two popular assumptions justify the introduction of Genetically Modified (GM) seeds in agriculture. One is demographics, and especially the expectation that according to current rates of population growth in the... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on April 2, 2004 4:41 PM. Permalink
Novel ideas on development, rogue states and international law: Hilary Benn and Tony Blair explain the new doctrine
Hilary Benn, state secretary for international development after Claire Short, has recently made a remarkable address on the new development doctrine in a lecture which took place the 4th of... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on March 11, 2004 2:43 PM. Permalink
Categories Policy
International disputes over disaster responsibility: whose law is better?
There is currently an eminent absence of international governance standards on business across borders. International disputes arise everyday in countries where we do not have access to information and which... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on February 23, 2004 12:53 PM. Permalink
Categories Responsibility, Risk
Notes from the Road: India between farming biotechnology and computer services
This short piece is just an overview of your correspondent's long observation and research of the Indian's science and technology sector. After a month or so of pilgrimage from the... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on January 6, 2004 8:24 AM. Permalink
Innovation, Risk and Development: policy choices and the WTO
In my paper on 'ICTs, Governance and Development: Risks and implications for Development Policy' I raise two important issues which constrain development policy options for Less Developed Countries (LDCs). The... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on December 17, 2003 1:25 PM. Permalink
Organismi Geneticamente Modificati: possibili dinamiche di rischio ed innovazione tra locale e globale
Come stabilire l'impatto ed i rischi di una decisione presa a livello locale su processi politici, deliberativi ed economici a livello globale, e viceversa? Vorrei prendere spunto dal recente dibattito... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on November 15, 2003 5:44 PM. Permalink
An Agenda for Innovation: Minister Stanca's Lecture at the London School of Economics
The 20th of October 2003 Lucio Stanca, Italian Minister for Innovation and Technologies, has presented the Italian Agenda for Innovation in the Department of Information Systems at the London School... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on October 22, 2003 5:43 PM. Permalink
A conversation with Professor Ian Angell on GM food and participatory governance
Yesterday, or the day before, I met by chance Prof Angell in the copy room of the department where I work and study. For the few people who dont know... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on October 16, 2003 11:39 AM. Permalink
The priorities for the research community
'The research community needs to complement its historic role in identifying problems of sustainability with a greater willingness to join with the development and other communities to work on practical... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on October 8, 2003 3:55 PM. Permalink
ICT policy and Governance
'While domestic policies are needed to harness ICT for development effectively, international policies forged in multilateral institutions will increasingly define the range of policy options available to developing countries. For... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on October 7, 2003 8:28 AM. Permalink
ICTs, Governance and Development: understanding risks and challenges
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become a major component of development finance. The United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals and the good governance imitative of the Organisation for Economic... - More
Posted by Daniele Navarra on September 25, 2003 9:53 AM. Permalink
