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. - More
by Jonathan Hankins, 15 November 2021 Permalink
Categories 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. - More
by Jonathan Hankins, 27 October 2021 Permalink
Categories Governance, Public Partecipation
Five Open Questions about the Post Covid 19 World.
For the first time, humanity in its entirety is having to face glocal problems: a pandemic virus, the ecological survival of the planet, life with artificial intelligence, how to deal with the infinite space of the big bang. Five questions asked by Piero Bassetti. - More
by Piero Bassetti, 20 March 2020 Permalink
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Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Philosophy, Politics, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science, Risk
ON POLICY CHOICES BY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES DURING THE 2020 COVID-19 OUTBREAK.
On March 11th, 2020, The World Health Organisation (WHO) has characterised COVID-19 as a pandemic. In its statement regarding this assessment, WHO has also clearly expressed its position regarding the fact that this is likely the very first pandemic that can be potentially controlled and, notwithstanding this, a number of countries in the World do not seem to be taking significant action. - More
by Maurizio Bettiga, 15 March 2020 Permalink
Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Science, Risk
Territories as Responsive and Accountable Networks of Smart Specialization Strategies: TRANSFORM project
In TRANSFORM three European regions join forces and open up their R&I activities to co-create more responsible approaches to innovation: Lombardy, Brussels and Catalonia. TRANSFORM stands for Territories as Responsive and Accountable Networks of Smart Specialization Strategies, through new Forms of Open and Responsible Decision-Making and it is a EU Horizon 2020 project. - More
by Redazione FGB, 27 February 2020 Permalink
Read also: posts on SMART-map project
Categories Democracy and Participation, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Open culture, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Categories Democracy and Participation, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics
What do epidemiologists do? Investigating a controversial symptomatology in Colombia
An anthropological research that analyzes the epidemiological practice used to address a mysterious outbreak that developed after the administration of the HPV vaccine. - More
by Maurizia Mezza, 5 November 2019 Permalink
Categories Bioethics, Governance, Policy, Politics, Practice, Responsibility and Science, anthropology
Read also: the white paper "Responsibility driven design for the future self-driving society" and other posts with tag "Driverless Society"
Categories Design, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Lecture, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, Video
Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Practice, Responsibility and Science, Sustainability
Forum on Research and Innovation: first face to face meeting in Milan.
Among the approaches gaining momentum for restoring the public's trust in institutions and experts is the development of a responsible and ethical approach to scientific research and innovation. The Lombardy Region is leading the way in this course with its first Forum on Research and Innovation. - More
by Redazione FGB, 27 June 2019 Permalink
Read also: other posts on Foro Regionale
Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Politics, Responsibility and Science
See also: Looking Back on 20**.
Categories Democracy and Participation, Design, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Open culture, Public Partecipation, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science, Site, This web site, biotechnology
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Read also: DigiDig: un manifesto sull'Algoritmo e la libertà and other post on Smart Cities
Between health and well-being, hybrid technology and governance problems: the 'health app'. A meeting with Federica Lucivero.
Last September the Bassetti Foundation had the pleasure of hosting Federica Lucivero, Senior Researcher at the Ethox Centre of the Big Data Institute of the University of Oxford and coordinator of the Digital Health Network at King's College London. Her lecture was titled 'Health apps between medicine and lifestyle'. - More
by Anna Pellizzone, Redazione FGB, 28 February 2018 Permalink
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The Regional Forum for Research and Innovation
In their sitting of 28 December, the Lombard Regional Government nominated ten international experts in the relationship between technoscience and society. The experts will make up the Regional Forum for Research and Innovation, recently created under the 29/2016 law following a call that received 150 candidates from across the globe and closed in September. - More
by Redazione FGB, 30 December 2017 Permalink
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Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Politics, Responsibility and Science
SMART-map project
SMART-map is a coordination and support action financed by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Programme. Its goal is to define and implement concrete roadmaps for the responsible development of technologies and services in three key time-changing fields: precision medicine, synthetic biology and 3D printing in biomedicine. - More
by Redazione FGB, 25 January 2017 Permalink
Read also: 30 mesi di SMART-map e SMARTmap - le immagini
Categories Bioethics, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, biotechnology
Game-changing innovations and responsibility. A dialogue with David Guston.
On November, 14th, The Fondazione Bassetti had the honor to host Professor David Guston, Founding Director of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Co-Director of the Institute for the Future of Innovation in Society Arizona State University. Here presentation, videos, slides and photos. - More
by Angela Simone, Redazione FGB, 29 November 2016 Permalink
Read also: Journal of Responsible Innovation reviews and some posts on VIRI
Categories Bioethics, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Responsibility and Science, biotechnology, genetics
Jos Malda awarded the 2015 Nanonica Prize
Press Release: The 2015 Nanonica Prize has been awarded to Jos Malda, associate professor at the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands, for developing a new microfiber 3D printing technique that can increase the stiffness of a hydrogel composite by up to 54-fold, within a similar range as that of the human cartilage. - More
by Redazione FGB, 18 April 2016 Permalink
Read also: other posts in Nanotechnology
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. - More
by Jonathan Hankins, 6 April 2016 Permalink
Categories Democracy and Participation, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Politics
Fourth NWO Responsible Innovation Conference
On 24 - 25 August 2015 the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) hosted the Fourth International Conference on Responsible Innovation in The Hague, the Netherlands. Read the report from the event. - More
by Redazione FGB, 4 September 2015 Permalink
Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
An Introduction to the Agri/Cultures Project
Readers may be interested to learn that Fern Wickson, program coordinator of the Society, Ecology and Ethics Department (SEED) at GenØk Centre for Biosafety in Tromsø, Norway and member of the VIRI, is currently leading the new 'Agri/Cultures Project'. - More
by Redazione FGB, 10 August 2015 Permalink
Wave - How collective ingenuity is changing the world.
After Paris, Marseille and Lille, 'Wave - How collective ingenuity is changing the world', a project of the BNP Paribas group, comes to Milan. The Italian event is directed by Trivioquadrivio with the collaboration of the Giannino Bassetti Foundation. - More
by Piero Bassetti, 27 May 2015 Permalink
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Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Open culture, Sustainability
Civil Society in Research and Innovation: What's next?
The Foundation recently participated in the Civil Society in Research and Innovation: What's next? Event at the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels. The event was promoted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the CONSIDER project (Civil society organisations in designing research governance) - More
by Redazione FGB, 19 March 2015 Permalink
Read also: EST-Frame Final Conference Report and A Review of the INSS meeting
A Matter of Design: Designing for Reproductive and Regenerative Ethics
The 5th STS Italia Conference was held in Milan, Italy, June 12 through 14, 2014, by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano Doctoral School in Design. Here the video of plenary session by Charis Thompson (London School of Economics). - More
by Redazione FGB, 12 November 2014 Permalink
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A Matter of Design: Imagined and Invented Worlds
The 5th STS Italia Conference was held in Milan, Italy, June 12 through 14, 2014, by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano Doctoral School in Design. Here the video of plenary session by SHEILA JASANOFF (Lancaster University). - More
by Redazione FGB, 12 August 2014 Permalink
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A Matter of Design: Everyday Life
The 5th STS Italia Conference was held in Milan, Italy, June 12 through 14, 2014, by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano Doctoral School in Design. Here the video of plenary session by Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University). - More
by Redazione FGB, 8 August 2014 Permalink
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A Matter of Design: Our Common Future
The 5th STS Italia Conference was held in Milan, Italy, June 12 through 14, 2014, by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano Doctoral School in Design. Here the video of plenary session by KJETIL FALLAN (University of Oslo). - More
by Redazione FGB, 6 August 2014 Permalink
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The European Business Ethics Network Conference
The German Network for Business Ethics (DNWE) recently organized the annual conference for its European Organisation: The European Business Ethics Network - EBEN. The conference took place in Berlin from the 12th to the 14th of June 2014, and was located in the ESTM European School of Management and Technology. - More
by Alessandro Blasimme, Virginia Sanchini, 8 July 2014 Permalink
Categories Democracy and Participation, Governance
Bassetti Foundation at the Responsible Innovation 2014 Conference
The conference runs through the 21st and 22nd of May and is titled 'Responsible Innovation: Values and Valorisation', and will be one of the largest conferences on responsible innovation this year. - More
by Redazione FGB, 30 April 2014 Permalink
Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Read also: Interview with Bruno Latour and Bruno Latour in Milan (2003)
Read also: Risk and Responsibility in Innovation.
Categories Democracy and Participation, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Responsibility and Science
Read also: Journal of Responsible Innovation and other posts on VIRI
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'. - More
by Jonathan Hankins, 26 July 2013 Permalink
Categories Conference, Design, Governance, Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Video
Read also: Preventative governance
Public Consultation on Internet of Things (IOT) Governance
Recently the European Commission released its Report on the Public Consultation on IOT Governance. IOT is the Internet of Things, and it refers to 'a long term technology and market development based on the connection of everyday objects to the Internet'. The authors argue that 'IOT has the potential to considerably improve the life of EU citizen by addressing many of today's societal challenges in health, transport, environment, energy, etc'. - More
by Redazione FGB, 23 May 2013 Permalink
Read also: Internet, the new superpower? and Augmented reality, immersive
Read also: Copenhagen il caso e il testo
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
by Mariachiara Tallacchini, 21 April 2008 Permalink
See also: Science and Governance: The report for the European Commission presented at the Bassetti Foundation
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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
by Redazione FGB, 29 December 2007 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
by Redazione FGB, 30 November 2007 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
by Redazione FGB, 29 October 2007 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
by Redazione FGB, 30 September 2007 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
by Redazione FGB, 31 July 2007 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
by Redazione FGB, 15 February 2007 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
by Redazione FGB, 26 November 2006 Permalink
Categories Governance
Governing Innovation in the Information Society: the need to account for the intangible dimension [update 15 Mar 05]
[update 15 Mar 05] See the links at the bottom of this post Following the recent entry on 'The Evolution of the Blog Innovation, Risk and Governance' the aim of... - More
by Redazione FGB, 5 March 2005 Permalink
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
by Redazione FGB, 16 February 2005 Permalink
Categories Governance
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
by Redazione FGB, 10 September 2004 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
by Redazione FGB, 9 September 2004 Permalink
Categories Governance
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
by Redazione FGB, 13 April 2004 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
by Redazione FGB, 7 April 2004 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
by Redazione FGB, 6 April 2004 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
by Redazione FGB, 5 April 2004 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
by Redazione FGB, 4 April 2004 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
by Redazione FGB, 3 April 2004 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
by Redazione FGB, 2 April 2004 Permalink
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
by Redazione FGB, 6 January 2004 Permalink
