Collaboration with International School Utrecht
During the month of June 2018, the Foundation collaborated with the International School Utrecht (Netherlands) on a series of interventions whose aims were to introduce issues surrounding RI to students of primary and secondary level. The interventions were all carried out by Bassetti Foundation foreign correspondent Jonathan Hankins. - More
by Redazione FGB, 26 June 2018 Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Sustainability
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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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Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Publications
Read also: Looking Back on 2016
Categories Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science, Video
Categories Eventi, Innovation and Responsibility
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
Categories 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. - More
by Jonny Hankins, 10 October 2017 Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Publication
Categories Bioethics, Design, Innovation and Responsibility, Lecture, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, Video, biotechnology
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See also: all meeting and lesson videos and The Self At Your Wrist.
Categories Bioethics, Design, Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Nanotechnology, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, Roboethics, biotechnology, enhancement, genetics
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 Jonny Hankins offers a short first hand report on the proceedings and experience. - More
by Jonny Hankins, 22 June 2017 Permalink
Read also: other posts on VIRI
Professor Jos Malda in Milan: 'fascinated by the combination of technology and living things'
On 9th May at the Bassetti Foundation in Milan, Universiteit Utrecht Professor Jos Malda will present his work and provide an overview of the state-of-the-art on 3D printing in the biomedical sector. - More
by Redazione FGB, 28 April 2017 Permalink
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Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics and Annual VIRI meeting
The Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies:Law, Policy and Ethics will be held at the new Beus Center for Law & Society in Phoenix, AZ between May 17-19, 2017, with Foundation Foreign Correspondent Jonny Hankins in attendance to report on proceedings. - More
by Redazione FGB, 26 April 2017 Permalink
Read also: other posts on VIRI
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Law, New Technologies, Policy, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science, Roboethics
Categories 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, Jonny Hankins describes the contents of Issue 2. - More
by Jonny Hankins, 21 February 2017 Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Publication
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
Categories Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Report, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Turning the tide or surfing the wave?
We publish an excerpt from the paper by Simone Amaldi and Guido Gorgoni in which they explore the political and economic context in which the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation has gained attention and taken shape. - More
by Guido Gorgoni, Simone Arnaldi, 7 December 2016 Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
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
Read also: Journal of Responsible Innovation reviews
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. - More
by Jonny Hankins, 30 September 2016 Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Publication
See also: The Fungus of Design, Osmosi #4. Incontro con Maurizio Montalti (in Italian)
Categories 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 Jonny Hankins offer some reflections on the many issues addressed and questions raised over the three day events. - More
by Jonny Hankins, 6 April 2016 Permalink
Categories Democracy and Participation, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Politics
Categories Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Report, Responsibility and Science
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Science, Sustainability
VIRI, First Annual Meeting
July of this year saw the first annual meeting of the Virtual Institute for responsible Innovation (VIRI). The meeting was held in Sussex, UK, between 14th to 16th July, and as a founding institutional member of VIRI the Bassetti Foundation was present. - More
by Redazione FGB, 16 September 2015 Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation 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
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Science, Sustainability
Sharing Health
Wave. The focus of the meeting of 8 June is the role that the sharing of knowledge, ideas and experience can play in improviing specialist capability, in deciding the most effective course of treatment from those currently available... - More
by Margherita Fronte, 29 May 2015 Permalink
Read also: Come la cultura hacker cambia la biologia and Il DNA diventa social
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
INSS Annual Conference Report
The INSS Third Annual Conference took place this year between April 9th and 10th, with Bassetti Foundation Foreign Correspondent Jonny Hankins attending the London site. This year's conference was held over 5 sites, in an attempt to make the event as sustainable as possible by cutting down on travel for the participants. - More
by Redazione FGB, 7 May 2015 Permalink
Read also: Integrated Network for Social Sustainability
The Self At Your Wrist - 3/3
The interaction between the human body and electronics is a process that started at a distant point in time. Anyone who thinks that this is just a simple evolution due to hardware miniaturization is guilty of oversimplification. Part 3 of 3. - More
by Fabio Besti, 28 April 2015 Permalink
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Read also: Journal of Responsible Innovation review
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, anthropology, enhancement
The Self At Your Wrist - 2/3
The interaction between the human body and electronics is a process that started at a distant point in time. Anyone who thinks that this is just a simple evolution due to hardware miniaturization is guilty of oversimplification. Part 2 of 3. - More
by Fabio Besti, 27 April 2015 Permalink
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Categories Innovation and Responsibility, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, anthropology, enhancement
The Self At Your Wrist - 1/3
The interaction between the human body and electronics is a process that started at a distant point in time. Anyone who thinks that this is just a simple evolution due to hardware miniaturization is guilty of oversimplification. Part 1 of 3. - More
by Fabio Besti, 24 April 2015 Permalink
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Categories Innovation and Responsibility, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, anthropology, enhancement
The RRI Tools Hubs Meeting
The RRI Tools Hubs Meeting brings to Lisbon around 60 researchers, science communicators, educators and policy makers, from 30 countries, to debate and present concrete examples of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in action. - More
by Redazione FGB, 22 April 2015 Permalink
Read also: RRI Tools is on: jump on board!
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Categories Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Science
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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Categories Books, Innovation and Responsibility
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 Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics
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: posts by Jonny Hankins in this site
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, This web site
Categories Innovating With Beauty, Innovation and Responsibility
Bassetti Foundation at the INSS International Meeting
The Second Annual Meeting of the Integrated Network for Social Sustainability takes place in Charlotte North Carolina between the 4th and 6th of April, and Jonny Hankins will be there to represent the Bassetti Foundation and present during the poster session. - More
by Redazione FGB, 28 March 2014 Permalink
Read also: Journal of Responsible Innovation
Categories Democracy and Participation, Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Report
AAAS Meeting and Journal for Responsible Innovation Launch
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is holding its annual meeting in Chicago from 13th to 17th February, and Ottavia Bassetti, Jonny Hankins, and Jeff Ubois will represent the Bassetti Foundation. - More
by Redazione FGB, 5 February 2014 Permalink
Integrated Network for Social Sustainability
Jonny Hankins is pleased to have received and accepted the offer to participate in the National Science Foundation funded Integrated Network for Social Sustainability (INSS) as a representative of the Bassetti Foundation. - More
by Redazione FGB, 3 February 2014 Permalink
Looking Back on 2013
We reflect upon what has been an eventful and fulfilling year for the Bassetti Foundation and our collaborators. 2013 saw an appreciable expansion in international affairs for the Foundation, and the launch of several long term global projects. - More
by Redazione FGB, 8 January 2014 Permalink
Read also: our newsletter, "Browsing with the Foundation" and subscribe to the mailing list of the Bassetti Foundation.
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Report
Categories Democracy and Participation, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Responsibility and Science
Categories Innovation and Responsibility
Read also: Journal of Responsible Innovation and other posts on VIRI
Journal of Responsible Innovation
February 2014 sees the launch of the new Responsible Innovation journal, published through Taylor and Francis and Routledge. Editor in Chief David Guston and the members of the Editorial Board have published a press release and call for contributions for the first and subsequent issue. The Bassetti Foundation has been fortunate enough to have been invited to join the Editorial Board. - More
by Redazione FGB, 11 September 2013 Permalink
Read also: Bad ideas? A history of scientific discovery
Categories Books, 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'. - More
by Jonny Hankins, 26 July 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. - More
by Jonny Hankins, 12 July 2013 Permalink
Categories Ethics, Innovation and Responsibility
Design Will Own The Future at The Singularity University
Our distinguished delegation was honored in visiting the Singularity University. This is the temple of innovation innovation! Located in the Nasa Research center in the heart of the Silicon Valley and a stones throw from the likes of Google Headquarters, it is the perfect place to wrap up a series of events that have engaged us over the past few days. There could be no better setting to seek further dialogue and gain more understanding on the power and responsibility of innovation. - More
by Francesco Bassetti, 24 June 2013 Permalink
Categories Eventi, Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science
Categories Conference, Design, Governance, Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Video
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Read also: Preventative governance
The Symposium From Taylorism To Tailor Made
Piero Bassetti, Chris Anderson, Stefano Micelli and Tom Igoe will discuss the role of craftmanship, as seen from both the US and Italian perspective, in the future of manufacturing systems. How design, craftmanship and technology will contribute to the New Economy of Beauty. Master of Ceremony: Dale Dougherty. - More
by Redazione FGB, 10 June 2013 Permalink
Read Also: The program of San Francisco's events
Innovating with Beauty. Preliminary program.
In San Francisco and the Bay Area for the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the US, Giannino Bassetti Foundation presents the culture, beauty and innovation of 'Made in Italy' design: exhibitions, debate and comparison between the cutting edge models of Italian production and the technology of Silicon Valley, towards a new economy of beauty. - More
by Redazione FGB, 6 June 2013 Permalink
Read also: Full program
Managing the Responsible Emergence of Science and Innovation in Society
This week saw the digital release of Richard Owen, John Bessant and Maggie Heintz's book entitled Responsible Innovation: Managing the Responsible Emergence of Science and Innovation in Society. - More
by Redazione FGB, 30 April 2013 Permalink
Read also: A Handbook for Responsible Innovation
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Public Partecipation, Publications, Responsibility and Science
Italian Design: achieving the improbable, innovating with beauty
On 28 February 2013 in Rome at the Farnesina, the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs presented The Year of Italian Culture in the USA. Fondazione Giannino Bassetti has accepted the challenge, and has for some time been working to convince Milan and Italy to take a road towards the economy of beauty. Not to replicate the status quo, but to foresee a scenario beyond the contingent, something improbable to achieve. - More
by Redazione FGB, 24 April 2013 Permalink
Read also: Design e Responsabilità (video in English) and Artigianato e design come nuove forme del lavoro
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'. - More
by Jonny Hankins, 26 February 2013 Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Report, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
An Interview with Chris Howard, CEO of Libboo
In this interview Jonny 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. - More
by Jonny Hankins, 31 January 2013 Permalink
Read also: Our publications and Intellectual Property and Responsibility interview with Mario Biagioli
Categories Innovation and Responsibility
Categories Bioethics, Innovation and Responsibility
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?' - More
by Jonny Hankins, Redazione FGB, 30 May 2012 Permalink
Categories Conference, Innovation and Responsibility
Categories Bioethics, Conference, Innovation and Responsibility, Lecture, Responsibility and Science, This web site
A Research Strategy for Engineered Nanotechnologies
Earlier this year the National Research Council of the National Academies published a document entitled 'A Research Strategy for Environmental, Health and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanotechnologies' - More
by Redazione FGB, 16 March 2012 Permalink
Read also: Hands-on nanotechnology in Milan
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 Jonny Hankins. Topics covered were varied, but the major theme running through the discussion is responsibility in the patenting process. (Part 3) - More
by Jonny Hankins, 21 February 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 Jonny Hankins. Topics covered were varied, but the major theme running through the discussion is responsibility in the patenting process. (Part 2) - More
by Jonny Hankins, 21 February 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 Jonny Hankins. Topics covered were varied, but the major theme running through the discussion is responsibility in the patenting process. - More
by Jonny Hankins, 21 February 2012 Permalink
2011 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
by Redazione FGB, 23 January 2012 Permalink
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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
by Redazione FGB, 12 July 2011 Permalink
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
by Redazione FGB, 20 June 2011 Permalink
Read also: itinerary: Conflict of Interest in Science
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
by Redazione FGB, 10 February 2011 Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Sustainability
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Public Partecipation, Responsibility and Science, Sustainability
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
by Redazione FGB, 2 July 2010 Permalink
Read also: Go Ask Your Father about DNA by Jonny Hankins
leggi in ItalianoDrones 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
by Jonny Hankins, 4 March 2010 Permalink
See also: Roboethics blog
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
by Redazione FGB, 11 December 2009 Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility
Proceedings 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
by Redazione FGB, 25 November 2009 Permalink
Read also: Innovazione e creatività
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
by Redazione FGB, 10 September 2009 Permalink
Read also: Daniel Callahan in FGB
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
by Redazione FGB, 24 February 2009 Permalink
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
by Redazione FGB, 6 September 2008 Permalink
See also: "New rites for democracy?" and "'Audit Cultures', a cura di Marilyn Strathern" in Grasseni's blog.
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