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Issue no. 5 – 2004

This autumn the Fondazione Bassetti site has seen the development of the collaborative writing initiative we have christened Collaborate, the publication of articles and observations on the subject of GNR (Genetics, Nanotechnologies and Robotics) Technologies and the results of the “Public Participation and the Governance of Innovation” project (promoted by Lombardy Region in collaboration with ... Issue no. 5 – 2004

11/12
2004 6min
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Issue no. 4 – 2004

From June to August 2004 the FGB site followed two main lines of discussion. The first, prompted by the publication on the site of Roberto Panzarani’s interview with TILAB (Telecom Italia’s research centre), focuses on the common ground between Training, Research and Innovation. The second, which also gave rise to a new initiative called Collaborate, ... Issue no. 4 – 2004

21/08
2004 4min
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Issue no. 3 – 2004

Over the last few months the issues covered in this site have developed along three main lines. The main theme of the first is Daniele Navarra’s report on “Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: Governing Innovation in India’s Agricultural Markets”, written during a three-month research project for the FGB. The project included a trip to India to ... Issue no. 3 – 2004

01/06
2004 3min
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Issue no. 2 – 2004

Last December, an “online dialogue” was opened in the Foundation site on the subject of innovation in the health field and the political responsibilities this involves. The question was taken up following an article by Maurizio De Filippis entitled “La Fabbrica della Salute”. The implications of the underlying issue, the risks of “technocracy”, in the ... Issue no. 2 – 2004

21/03
2004 2min
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Issue no. 1 – 2004

For this Diary, we have chosen to focus on the Calls for Comments, which in recent times have become the mainstay of the Bassetti Foundation’s web publications. We shall also take this opportunity to remind readers that all the Calls for Comments are, as always, accessible via the “Topics” link, which leads to the nucleus ... Issue no. 1 – 2004

13/02
2004 12min
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Issue no. 6 – 2003

In recent months, the site has seen an intensive use of Web Logs (“Blogs”) and interaction with the public through Calls for Comments (CfCs). Our first web space in CfC form was the one conducted by Daniele Navarra in June of this year, entitled “Innovation, Social Risk and Political Responsibility”. Since then we have used ... Issue no. 6 – 2003

03/12
2003 8min
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Issue no. 5 – 2003

The Call for Comments on Innovation, Social risk and Political Responsibility closed on 6 August. In the last intervention, Daniele Navarra, who conducted the initiative, pointed out that “the role of centres of excellence such as the Bassetti Foundation is as much to guarantee that policies that concern the community as a whole are implemented ... Issue no. 5 – 2003

24/09
2003 3min
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Issue no. 4 – 2003

As announced in the previous Diary, on 14 May 2003 Piero Bassetti, as President of the Foundation, gave a lecture at the London School of Economics on “Innovation, social risk and political responsibility”: “(…) We rarely have a clear idea of the relationships between innovation, change, risk and responsibility. Only very occasionally do we consciously ... Issue no. 4 – 2003

30/06
2003 3min
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Issue no. 3 – 2003

In March, page 9 of the Topics section opened with the publication of excerpts from an essay by Adriano Pessina (lecturer in bio-ethics at the Università Cattolica di Milano) entitled “The ‘sense’ of the possible and the horizon of the limit in technological civilisation”. Pessina’s reflections belong to the subject area that we have been ... Issue no. 3 – 2003

15/04
2003 3min
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Issue no. 2 – 2003

In February, the Foundation’s website hosted a seminar entitled “Progress and Responsibility: the transition from science to technology“. The seminar, which lasted about a week, took as its starting point a paper by Giuseppe O. Longo (lecturer in information theory at the University of Trieste). A forum led by Longo himself and coordinated by Corrado ... Issue no. 2 – 2003

15/03
2003 2min
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