Liberal Innovation In ICT
In this post we take Gabriele Giacomini's Liberal Innovation proposal from The Arduous Road to Revolution and some of Sarah Lamdan's 'multifaceted solutions' from her Data Cartels book to look for similarities and divergencies. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 21 Febbraio 2023 Permalink
Read also: The Arduous Road to Revolution review and posts on tag algoritmo
Read also: all reviews of Journal for Responsible in Innovation and some posts on The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation.
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Recensioni
René von Schomberg: Prospects of Institutionalizing the Research Values 'openness' and 'Collaboration'
In November 2022, René von Schomberg delivered an open lecture at the International Centre for Advanced Studies, Kaete Hamburger Kolleg, RWTH Aachen University. The focus was on Robert Merton's Ethos of Science, raising the question of whether the institution of science requires reformation or the formulation of a new ethos. Jonathan Hankins publishes his notes taken at the event. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 16 Dicembre 2022 Permalink
Categorie Lecture, Responsibility and Science
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency Future of River Basins and Deltas Seminar
The PBL (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) held a seminar in Rotterdam on 11+12 October 2022 dedicated to the future of river basins and deltas, which Jonathan Hankins attended on behalf of the Bassetti Foundation. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 23 Novembre 2022 Permalink
Read also: Saperi a confronto per costruire il futuro
Read also: all the reviews of the Journal
Read also: all reviews of Journal for Responsible in Innovation and some posts on The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation.
The Arduous Road to Revolution. Resisting Authoritarian Regimes in The Digital Communication Age.
Jonathan Hankins reviews The Arduous Road to Revolution. Resisting Authoritarian Regimes in The Digital Communication Age, the latest book from Gabriele Giacomini. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 1 Settembre 2022 Permalink
See also: Liberal Innovation In ICT and le interviste di Giacomini
Fostering Responsible Computing Research, Foundations and Practices
The committee on Responsible Computing Research of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has published a Consensus Study Report entitled Fostering Responsible Computing Research, Foundations and Practices. A review by Jonathan Hankins. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 9 Agosto 2022 Permalink
Open Scholarship, Responsible Innovation and Anticipatory Governance Workshop
The Open Scholarship, Responsible Innovation and Anticipatory Governance workshop was held on 29-30 June at Käte Hamburger Kolleg (KHK), Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen University. Foreign Scientific Correspondent Jonathan Hankins attended and files the following report. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 12 Luglio 2022 Permalink
Read also: posts on The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation
Categorie Governance, Innovation and Responsibility
Categorie Conference, Food and Feed
Categorie Conference, Sustainability
Read also: other post with tag Art in responsible innovation
Categorie Eventi, Innovation Poiesis Intensive
Read also: all reviews of Journal for Responsible in Innovation and some posts on The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation.
Read also: all reviews of Journal for Responsible in Innovation and some posts on The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation.
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Publications
Toward Responsible innovation. Responsibility and Philosophy for a Humanely Sustainable Future
Jonathan Hankins reviews Toward Responsible innovation. Responsibility and Philosophy for a Humanely Sustainable Future is the latest book from Xavier Pavie. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 3 Febbraio 2022 Permalink
Categorie Books, Innovation and Responsibility
OECD Conference on Technology in and for Society, December 2021
In this post, Jonathan Hankins offers some take-aways and personal thoughts on the recent OECD Conference on Technology in and for Society, held on the 6th and 7th of December 2021. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 16 Dicembre 2021 Permalink
Book Review: Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation. Organisational and National Conditions.
In this post Jonathan Hankins reviews Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation Organisational and National Conditions, written by Christian Wittrock, Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Auke Pols, Philip Macnaghten and David Ludwig - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 23 Novembre 2021 Permalink
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Open access
TRANSFORM at the 19th European Week of Regions and Cities. A Review.
The European Week of Regions and Cities is the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to cohesion policy. 2021 saw representatives of the Bassetti Foundation participate, as Angela Simone and the TRANSFORM team held a participatory lab in which they presented their project. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 15 Novembre 2021 Permalink
Categorie Democracy and Participation, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Politics, Sustainability
Responsibility-by-design - Guidelines to develop long-term strategies (roadmaps) to innovate responsibly
On 26 October 2021 the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) published the CWA 17796 Responsibility-by-design - Guidelines to develop long-term strategies (roadmaps) to innovate responsibly. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 27 Ottobre 2021 Permalink
Categorie Governance, Public Partecipation
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 8, Issue 1 reviewed
The first issue of Volume 8 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation was released in May of 2021, an important milestone for the Journal as it was the first to be open access from its day of publication. In this post we offer an overview of this groundbreaking issue. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 30 Settembre 2021 Permalink
Read also: all reviews of Journal for Responsible in Innovation and some posts on The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation.
Read also: the first part and Notes from the SIENNA Project Final Conference
Categorie Books, Recensioni
European Biotechnology and Society Seminar Series 2021 - Review, Part 1
June saw the launch of the European Biotechnology and Society 2021 seminar series, a five-week long series of presentations and questions. In this post Jonathan Hankins reviews the first two episodes. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 22 Giugno 2021 Permalink
Read also: the second part and Notes from the SIENNA Project Final Conference
Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future - Book Review
Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future. An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies is the latest book from Bernd Carsten Stahl. In this post Jonathan Hankins offers an overview. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 11 Giugno 2021 Permalink
Categorie Books
Luck as a challenge for the responsible governance of science and technology. JRI Special Issue part 2.
In this post we take a look at the second recent Special Issue offered by the Journal of Responsible Innovation: Luck as a challenge for the responsible governance of science and technology. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 27 Maggio 2021 Permalink
Read also: all reviews of Journal for Responsible in Innovation and some posts on The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation.
Categorie Publication
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Special Issue on Public engagement in contested political contexts
An overview of the JRI Special Issue Public engagement in contested political contexts: reflections on the role of recursive reflexivity in responsible innovation - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 21 Maggio 2021 Permalink
Read also: all reviews of Journal for Responsible in Innovation and some posts on The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation.
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Publications
Categorie Books, Innovation and Responsibility
See also: Responsible Innovation, a Narrative Approach and It's Circular Forum. Future Cities smart, digital and circular (text in Italian, some videos in English)
Read also: all reviews of Journal for Responsible in Innovation and some posts on The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation.
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Publications
Read also: all reviews of Journal for Responsible in Innovation and some posts on The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation.
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Publications
Categorie Report, biotechnology
Categorie Open access, Open culture
Read also: part 1 of this post and Game-changing innovations and responsibility. A dialogue with David Guston.
Categorie Eventi
Categorie Eventi, Responsibility and Science
Responsibility Beyond Growth. A Case For Responsible Stagnation - Book Review.
Jonathan Hankins reviews Responsibility Beyond Growth. A Case For Responsible Stagnation by Stevienna de Saille, Fabien Medvecky, Michiel van Oudheusden, Kevin Albertson, Effie Amanatidou, Timothy Birabi and Mario Pansera. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 7 Ottobre 2020 Permalink
Read also: other book reviews
Categorie Books, Publications
Categorie Open culture, biotechnology
Read also: all reviews of Journal for Responsible in Innovation and some posts on The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation.
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Publication
Journal of Responsible Innovation: Volume 7, Issue 1
The first issue of Volume 7 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation is now available. Much of this issue is open access, offering readers some fantastic opportunities and high-quality articles, ideal for whiling away the lockdown hours. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 6 Maggio 2020 Permalink
Read also: all reviews of Journal for Responsible in Innovation and some posts on The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation.
Categorie Publication
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Policy, Politics, Responsibility and Politics
Categorie Politics
Read also: other posts on RRI
Read also: all reviews of Journal for Responsible in Innovation and some posts on The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation.
Categorie Publication
Read also: page Who we are and History of the site. See summary, videos and photos of the dialogue with René Von Schomberg and Joanthan Hankins.
Categorie Democracy and Participation, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics
Read also: other posts on the Handbook and Innovation, social risk and political responsibility
Categorie Books, Innovation and Responsibility, Report, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Read also: all reviews of Journal for Responsible in Innovation and some posts on The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation.
Read also: other posts on the Handbook and Innovation, social risk and political responsibility
Categorie Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Practice, Responsibility and Science, Sustainability
Read also: other posts on the Handbook and Innovation, social risk and political responsibility
Categorie Books, Innovation and Responsibility, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Read also: other posts on the Handbook and Innovation, social risk and political responsibility
Categorie Books, Innovation and Responsibility, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
International Handbook on Responsible Innovation: An Overview
July of 2019 sees the release of the International Handbook on Responsible Innovation. A Global Resource, edited by René von Schomberg and myself, Jonathan Hankins. In this post Hankins presents the first part of the Handbook. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 26 Giugno 2019 Permalink
Read also: other posts on the Handbook and Innovation, social risk and political responsibility
The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation
The Bassetti Foundation is delighted to announce the forthcoming release of the International Handbook on Responsible Innovation - A Global Resource, edited by René von Schomberg and our own Jonathan Hankins. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 30 Aprile 2019 Permalink
Categorie Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Categorie Books, Recensioni
Categorie Publications, Report
Read also: all the post on VIRI
Categorie Conference
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Publications
Categorie Publications
Glocalism. Beyond Democracy: Innovation As Politics, review of the journal.
The latest edition of the journal Glocalism has just been released. The issue is titled Beyond Democracy: Innovation As Politics, an argument that as readers will know very much reflects the Foundation's standpoint. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 14 Marzo 2018 Permalink
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Publications
Read also: SMART-map project
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Publications
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Review of Volume 4, part 1
The autumn means the release of issue 2 of Volume 4 of the Taylor and Francis published Journal of Responsible Innovation. In this the first of two posts covering this volume's publications, we review the articles from issue 1. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 10 Ottobre 2017 Permalink
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Publication
Frankenstein, Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
To celebrate the forthcoming 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's story of science, creation and responsibility, David H. Guston, Ed Finn and Jason Scott Robert offer a version 'annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all types'. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 3 Luglio 2017 Permalink
Categorie Books, Publications
VIRI Annual Meeting and GET Conference, A Short Report
This year's VIRI was held in Tempe Arizona between May 15 and 16 to coincide with the Governance of Emerging Technologies Conference that immediately followed in Phoenix. Here Jonathan Hankins offers a short first hand report on the proceedings and experience. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 22 Giugno 2017 Permalink
Read also: other posts on VIRI
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Publication
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 3, Issue 2 Reviewed
Late last year saw the publication of the final two issues of Volume 3 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation, the first volume under the leadership of the new Editor in Chief Erik Fisher. In this the first of two review articles, Jonathan Hankins describes the contents of Issue 2. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 21 Febbraio 2017 Permalink
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Publication
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 3, Issue 1 Reviewed
Earlier this summer saw the publication of the first issue of Volume 3 of the Journal of Responsible innovation. In this post we review the issue, the first to be published with its new Editor In Chief Erik Fisher. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 30 Settembre 2016 Permalink
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Publication
See also: The Fungus of Design, Osmosi #4. Incontro con Maurizio Montalti (in Italian)
Categorie Design, Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, biotechnology
Responsible Research and Innovation: The Problematic Quest For Right Impacts.
The Responsible Research and Innovation: The Problematic Quest For Right Impacts International Conference took place between March 11th and 12th. In this post Jonathan Hankins offer some reflections on the many issues addressed and questions raised over the three day events. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 6 Aprile 2016 Permalink
Categorie Democracy and Participation, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Politics
Future Food Symposium in Utrecht
February 17 saw the Groentetas group of Utrecht University organize the Future Food Symposium, with long time Foundation collaborator Cristina Grasseni as opening speaker. In this short report we offer an outline of the event. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 29 Febbraio 2016 Permalink
Categorie Food and Feed, Forum
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Science, Sustainability
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Science, Sustainability
Categorie Books, Innovation and Responsibility
Read also: Journal of Responsible Innovation
Categorie Democracy and Participation, Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Report
Read also: Interview with Bruno Latour and Bruno Latour in Milan (2003)
Categorie Conference, Democracy and Participation
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility
Developing a Framework for Responsible Innovation
Last month Jack Stilgoe, Richard Owen and Phil Macnaghten published an open access article in the Research Policy journal that is available through the Science Direct website entitled 'Developing a Framework for Responsible Innovation'. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 26 Luglio 2013 Permalink
Pastor Adam Mabry in Conversation
Many of the debates surrounding the issues that we address at the Bassetti Foundation could relate in some way to a lack of absolutism. An individual must make moral and ethical decisions without a black and white idea of right and wrong (in the biblical sense). Conversations surrounding this idea led me to take up an interest in the religious teaching of ethics. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 12 Luglio 2013 Permalink
Categorie Ethics, Innovation and Responsibility
Read also: Preventative governance
Categorie biotechnology, genetics
Read also: Innovation and Politics and An Ethics For Emerging Technologies
A Report On Responsible Research and Innovation
As a follow up to my post regarding René Von Schomberg's Matrix for Responsible Innovation I would like to point readers towards a freely downloadable document entitled 'A Report On Responsible Research and Innovation'. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 26 Febbraio 2013 Permalink
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Report, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
An Interview with Chris Howard, CEO of Libboo
In this interview Jonathan Hankins poses questions of responsibility and ethics surrounding Libboo's use and patenting requests for an innovative method of measuring how certain individuals may be able to exert influence over others. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 31 Gennaio 2013 Permalink
Read also: Our publications and Intellectual Property and Responsibility interview with Mario Biagioli
Nuffield Council on Bioethics Biotechnologies Report
In December of last year the Nuffield Council on Bioethics published a report entitled Emerging Biotechnologies: technology, choice and the public good. In this post Jonathan Hankins reviews the report and its findings and recommendations. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 18 Gennaio 2013 Permalink
A Handbook for Responsible Innovation
It is a collection of articles written by Jonathan Hankins over the last 2 years. The handbook is divided into 'macro arguments': synthetic biology and nanotechnology, bioethics and information and knowledge, with the opening chapter offering an overview of developments in thinking around responsible innovation. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, Redazione FGB, 7 Dicembre 2012 Permalink
Read also: Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility by Jeff Ubois
Categorie Technology
Categorie Innovation and politics, Roboethics
Read also: A threat to internet democracy? and Internet, the new superpower?
Categorie Internet
Read also: Roboethics' blog and Robotics: a new science
Read also: Design-Push Innovation: Changing Accepted Meanings, an interview with Roberto Verganti
Categorie Design
Read also: I nuovi traguardi dell'open science by Angela Simone
Categorie Site
Categorie Publications, Recensioni
Read also: Neuroscienze e futuro militare and Springer Handbook of Robotics
Categorie enhancement
Read also: Fare la cosa giusta and 28 Seeds, a review of the event.
Categorie Report
Categorie biotechnology
Categorie Bioethics, Innovation and Responsibility
Categorie Conference, Responsibility and Science
Who's Responsible?
The 2012 European Association of Social Anthropologists conference (EASA) takes place at Université Paris Nanterre in July of this year, and long time collaborator Cristina Grasseni will participate on a panel on behalf of the Bassetti Foundation, as part of an event entitled 'Who's Responsible?' - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, Redazione FGB, 30 Maggio 2012 Permalink
Categorie Conference, Innovation and Responsibility
Read also: Copenhagen il caso e il testo
Categorie Bioethics, Conference, Innovation and Responsibility, Lecture, Responsibility and Science, This web site
Read also: Changing Accepted Meanings
Categorie Sustainability
Read also: A Conversation with Pallavi Phartiyal - part 1 or read in Issuu
Categorie Nanotechnology
Categorie Biotechnology, Food
The Age of Big Data
Last week the New York Times carried an article entitled The Age of Big Data that addresses the technological advances that allow the manipulation and analysis of some of the enormous amounts of data generated through Internet use. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 23 Febbraio 2012 Permalink
Read also: A threat to internet democracy? and Internet, the new superpower?
Categorie Governance, Internet
Intellectual Property and Responsibility (part 3)
Professor Biagioli was kind enough to dedicate some of his time to the Foundation in the form of a conversation with Jonathan Hankins. Topics covered were varied, but the major theme running through the discussion is responsibility in the patenting process. (Part 3) - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 21 Febbraio 2012 Permalink
Intellectual Property and Responsibility (part 2)
Professor Biagioli was kind enough to dedicate some of his time to the Foundation in the form of a conversation with Jonathan Hankins. Topics covered were varied, but the major theme running through the discussion is responsibility in the patenting process. (Part 2) - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 21 Febbraio 2012 Permalink
Intellectual Property and Responsibility
Professor Biagioli was kind enough to dedicate some of his time to the Foundation in the form of a conversation with Jonathan Hankins. Topics covered were varied, but the major theme running through the discussion is responsibility in the patenting process. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 21 Febbraio 2012 Permalink
Read also: some of his articles in Focus
Categorie Biography
Design and Everyday Objects at London's Science Museum
Followers of the website will be aware of the Bassetti Foundation's Design Project, and in this post I would like to take a look at an interesting exhibition currently on display at the London Science Museum. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 1 Febbraio 2012 Permalink
Read also: Bruno Latour in FGB
Planet of the Apes
If you find yourself at a loss for a Christmas present for a like-minded adult, might I suggest that you consider the new Planet of the Apes film, released last week on DVD and Blue Ray? It raises a lot of important ethical issues. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 22 Dicembre 2011 Permalink
Categorie Biotechnology, Video
Categorie Biotechnology, Site
Face recognition
In an as yet unpublished but widely reported article entitled 'Privacy In The Age Of Augmented Reality', Alessandro Acquisiti, Ralph Gross and Fred Stuzman 'investigate the feasibility of combining publicly available Web 2.0 data with off-the-shelf face recognition software for the purpose of large-scale, automated individual re-identification'. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 19 Ottobre 2011 Permalink
Categorie Privacy
Government Investment and Cuts in Biodefense Research
In this article Jonathan Hankins reviews recent journal articles that address US government spending on biotechnology, and in particular biodefense, and takes a look at a local Boston case. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 30 Settembre 2011 Permalink
Categorie Bioethics, Biotechnology
Categorie Bioethics, Biotechnology
From Here To Infinity, A Book Review
"From here to Infinity" by Martin Rees addresses many of the themes that we find on the Bassetti Foundation website, and although the word 'responsibility' is not used, the book could be seen as a call to arms regarding ethics, public involvement in science and the environment. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 8 Agosto 2011 Permalink
Read also: Scienza, governance e futuro
Categorie Libri
Prosthetic by choice?
Following on from the arguments raised during the discussion with athlete Marta Milani, this article looks at some of the issues posed by advances in prosthetic technology, and the issue of a patient's choice to amputate a hand in order to have a prosthetic hand fitted. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 25 Luglio 2011 Permalink
Read also: Robotics. A new science by Fiorella Operto
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, Jonathan Hankins speaks to Italian National 400 metre runner Marta Milani about the human body, technology in sports and their effects upon performance. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 20 Luglio 2011 Permalink
Read also: Le lame di Pistorius, and Nature, New Yorker on Cognitive Enhancement
Categorie Interviews
The problem of cold nuclear fusion
On 14th January of this year an article appeared in La Republica (a well respected Italian broadsheet) in which 2 scientists report that cold nuclear fusion has been achieved and demonstrated. The article explains that for the first time the process has been achieved using nickel and hydrogen, opening the doors to abundant clean energy. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 31 Maggio 2011 Permalink
Read also: Reports of a Fukushima cover up abound
Home genetic testing and the law
As a lead up to the presentation entitled that will be delivered by Margaret Curnutte here at the Bassetti Foundation in Milan on 16th May I would like to take a brief look at the way in which the legal community and governmental regulatory organizations view the problem of home genetic testing. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 13 Maggio 2011 Permalink
Read also: Genetic Consumerism
Categorie Report
Read also: Sustainable Medicine: Two Models of Health Care by Daniel Callahan, and Drugs for People, not for Profit by Jonathan Hankins.
Categorie Biotechnology, Video
A threat to internet democracy?
Last week George Monbiot's blog hosted by the Guardian UK featured an interesting follow on article about the problem of astroturfing. Astroturfing is the action of taking fake identities to post comments on blogs in favour of or against political arguments and issues. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 4 Marzo 2011 Permalink
Read also: Internet, the new superpower? and News 'a lunga percorrenza'
Categorie Publications, Site
Read also: Slow food, fast genes by Cristina Grasseni and The "moral imperative" of biotech food by Jeff Ubois
Categorie Courses
Africa up for grabs
Last year Friends Of The Earth published a report entitled Africa up for grabs, the scale and impact of land grabbing for agrofuels. The report was part Funded by the European Commission within the feeding and fueling Europe project, and... - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 30 Gennaio 2011 Permalink
Categorie Report
Electric car sharing schemes on the rise
This week The Guardian UK carried the news that the city of Paris is to introduce an electric car sharing scheme. In this posting Jonathan Hankins takes a look at the proposal and other schemes of this type. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 21 Dicembre 2010 Permalink
The Global Green Awards For Creativity In Sustainability
On 2nd December 2010 the 5th Global Green Awards For Creativity in Sustainability will take place in London. This year the awards include two new categories, one entitled 'Best Green New Product innovation' and the second 'Best Green Educational Project'. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 29 Novembre 2010 Permalink
Read also: By Any Other Name and Green nanotechnology at Nano-tech 2009
Solar energy farms
Under a law passed in 2003 solar farms are defined as "urgent and unstoppable works for the public good" and so local and regional governments cannot restrict them. Any farmer can place any number of panels on his or her land and the authorities are unable to stop them. Where is the problem? - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 2 Novembre 2010 Permalink
Read also: New Developments in Solar Power Technology
Read also: Drugs for People, not for Profit and A man, his history and his DNA
Categorie Books
Read also: Daniel Callahan in FGB and Preventative governance
Categorie Books
Dan Ariely and Behavioral Economics
The phrase 'responsibility is down to politics and not ethics' has more than once been heard during discussions here at the Foundation. If this holds true then it might be interesting to take a look at Dan Ariely's work on behavioral economics. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 3 Giugno 2010 Permalink
Read also: Daniel Callahan in FGB
Categorie Libri
Google and Facebook back in the news
Last Friday Google were forced to admit that they had been collecting information that had been sent over unsecured wireless networks during its photographing of areas for its street view service. Jonathan Hankins takes a look at what the papers say on the matter. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 24 Maggio 2010 Permalink
Volcanic ash disruption and Facebook
As I am sure everyone is aware the volcanic cloud problem has recently caused a few travel problems for a few million people, but can the internet be of any help in a crisis of this type? Jonathan Hankins addresses the problem. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 9 Maggio 2010 Permalink
See also: The problem with social networking by Jonathan Hankins
Categorie Partecipazione, Site
Internet, the new superpower?
This weekend saw the conclusion of the BBC World News series entitled Superpower. The series takes a look at the Internet and its effect upon peoples' lives. The BBC website hosts a section dedicated to the series, featuring interviews and video clips with an impressive lineup of experts within the field. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 26 Marzo 2010 Permalink
Read also: Inter - Inter - net by Massimo Bartoli and The problem with social networking
Categorie Eventi
The problem with social networking
Recently the web has hosted several articles implicating various social network sites in some serious social problems. In this article Jonathan Hankins takes a look at some press articles and blogs that cast a glance at the use and abuse of social networking sites. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 15 Marzo 2010 Permalink
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. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 4 Marzo 2010 Permalink
See also: Roboethics blog
Go Ask Your Father about DNA
In this posting Jonathan Hankins reviews Lennard J. Davis's book entitled "Go Ask Your Father: One Man's Obsession with Finding His Origins Through DNA Testing". The ethical, philosophical and psychological aspects of a DNA test told in first person. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 5 Febbraio 2010 Permalink
Read also: Home DNA Testing for all the Family
Categorie Libri
Green Travel Using Compressed Air
This month a lecturer and students at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology unveiled a prototype of a motorbike powered solely by compressed air. Interpreting sustainability as responsibility we take a look at progress made in emission free travel. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 1 Febbraio 2010 Permalink
Leggi anche: Design-Push Innovation: Changing Accepted Meanings an interview with Roberto Verganti
Categorie Presentazioni
That was the year that was - Cosa è stato nell'anno che è stato
Il 2009 è stato un anno molto impegnativo per la Fondazione. Il seguente articolo mira a dare al lettore una panoramica del lavoro della Fondazione con particolare attenzione alla sua partecipazione a conferenze, seminari, pubblicazioni, e all'educazione e alla promozione del dibattito durante tutto l'anno. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 19 Gennaio 2010 Permalink
Leggi anche: FGB Newsletter
Read in English
Categorie Questo sito
Una breve recensione: Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility
L'inizio di quest'anno ha visto la messa on line di una nuova pubblicazione della Fondazione Bassetti intitolata Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility e scritta da Jeff Ubois con la prefazione di Piero Bassetti. E' disponibile in edizione cartacea, in pdf scaricabile, leggibile direttamente on-line tramite Issuu e in ogni caso protetta da licenza Creative Commons. Vedi anche la clip video. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 11 Gennaio 2010 Permalink
Vedi anche: il blog di Jeff Ubois e le altre pubblicazioni FGB
Read in EnglishHome DNA Testing for all the Family
On 17th November 2009 home DNA testing kits went on over the counter sale for the first time in high street chemists in the UK. These kits allow the DNA testing of a child's paternity and involve the taking of saliva from both the child and the 'alleged father's' mouth (their terminology) and its analysis. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 3 Dicembre 2009 Permalink
Read also: Genetic Testing and its Implications: an interview with Dr. Arthur Caplan by Jeff Ubois
Categorie Biotechnology
An Ethics For Emerging Technologies
In this article Jonathan Hankins reviews a recent report entitled Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology; a review of the debates, published by the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington DC. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 24 Ottobre 2009 Permalink
See also: An Introduction to Synthetic Biology
Assisted suicide..... Painless?
On 23rd September 2009 the Director of Public Prosecutions in the UK published the 'Interim Policy for Prosecutors in Respect of Cases of Assisted Suicide'. The DPP's aim is to solicit public participation in policy making through a questionnaire attached to the report. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 28 Settembre 2009 Permalink
Read also: Daniel Callahan in FGB
See also: Dal Golem all'intelligenza artificiale: la scienza in teatro per una riflessione esistenziale and DiaBloghi by Tommaso Correale Santacroce
Categorie Etica, Recensioni
See also: the blog on Roboethics, the interview with Dr. Ronald Arkin on Roboethics and Responsibility and E se il robot...?
Categorie Roboetica
Oversights in Oversighting Nanotechnology
In this article Jonathan Hankins follows up on his series of postings on nanotechnology by taking a look at the recent report entitled Oversight of Next Generation Nanotechnology written by J Clarence Davies and published by The Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 30 Luglio 2009 Permalink
See also: post on Nanotechnologies in Focus
See also: La colla della cozza e altre fiabe biotech di Sylvie Coyaud
Categorie Biotechnology
Read also: The interview with President of The Hastings Center, Thomas Murray "Genomics and sustainable medicine" and "Is ethics a branch of Politics?"
COMMUNIA Conference 2009: Global Science & Economics of Knowledge-Sharing Institutions
The Second COMMUNIA International Conference entitled Global Science & Economics of Knowledge-Sharing Institutions takes place from 28th to 30th of June 2009 in Turin, Italy. The Communia Project elaborate upon their goal to become a European point of reference for the theoretical analysis and strategic policy discussion of existing and emerging issues concerning the public domain in the digital environment and... - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 22 Giugno 2009 Permalink
Read also: Creative Common in FGB site
Categorie Conference
Is ethics a branch of Politics?
Returning to take a more in-depth look at the work of The Hastings Centre and interest in bio-ethics, Jonathan Hankins provides a review of their recent online and hardback publication entitled From Birth to Death and Bench to Clinic: The Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book for Journalists, Policymakers, and Campaigns. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 4 Giugno 2009 Permalink
Read also: Nanotechnology in Focus and Nature, New Yorker on Cognitive Enhancement by Jeff Ubois
A case study in scenario thinking
If we describe scenario thinking as a structured way of anticipating possibilities, it should be a part of innovating responsibly. In order to better understand the aims, as well as current methodologies and practices in use, one could take a look at a book entitled The future of ICT in financial services written by Daniel Erasmus and published by DTN press in Amsterdam. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 27 Maggio 2009 Permalink
See also: Ethical Decision Making During A (Possible) Flu Pandemic by Jonathan Hankins
Categorie Libri
Ethical Decision Making During A (Possible) Flu Pandemic
As a first introduction to the complex problems of bio-ethics and scenario planning Jonathan Hankins signposts an article that addresses the problem of the distribution of scarse medical resources in times of crisis. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 7 Maggio 2009 Permalink
See also: lecture by Daniel Callahan Sustainable Medicine: Two Models of Health Care and the Call for Comments on The implications of the innovation in the health field
Categorie Site
Space Station Briefly Evacuated Due To Possible Space Debris Collision
A piece of debris of about 13 cm in diameter and probably part of a spent satellite motor was due to pass through the possible collision zone and even though the possibility of contact was minimal (passing about 4.5 KM from the station) NASA decided to be prudent and take precautionary steps. - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 13 Marzo 2009 Permalink
See also: Satellite traffic problems by Jonathan Hankins
Green nanotechnology at Nano-tech 2009
From February 18th to 20th 2009 the Nano-tech 2009 international nanotechnology exhibition and conference takes place in Tokyo Japan. The logo is explained as "what cutting edge technology can do for the future environment; green nanotechnology is applied nanotechnology leading to materials and products which contribute to the solution of our environmental problems". - Leggi
di Jonathan Hankins, 6 Febbraio 2009 Permalink
See also: Asking the relevant questions about public participation by Brice Laurent
Categorie Convegni, Nanotechnology
Robotics: a new science
The International Symposium "Robotics: a new science" takes place on Wednesday 20th of February 2008 at Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Via Della Lungara 10 in Rome. The conference is not conceived as a technical workshop, but as a seminar... - Leggi
di Fiorella Operto, Jonathan Hankins, Redazione FGB, 16 Febbraio 2008 Permalink
See also: dialogo on line con Fiorella Operto (in Italian)
