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Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Policy, Responsibility and Politics
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Policy, Politics, Responsibility 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
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 Jonathan 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
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 Jonathan Hankins will be there to represent the Bassetti Foundation and present during the poster session. - More
by Redazione FGB, 28 March 2014 Permalink
Integrated Network for Social Sustainability
Jonathan 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
Risk and Responsibility in Innovation. Lecture by Michael Bruch.
On November 27, 2012 at Università Bocconi, Michael Bruch, Head of Research & Development - Risk Consulting at Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty (AGCS) and risk expert at the Allianz Center for Technology (AZT), held a lecture on the role insurers can play in the development of innovative technologies such as nanotechnologies. - More
by Redazione FGB, 4 January 2013 Permalink
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Read also: the presentation of the lecture and other lectures in Sapere, fare, potere. Verso un'innovazione responsabile
Categories Innovation, Policy
The 'moral imperative' of biotech food
Among the many U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks is one that details U.S. pressure on the Vatican to change its stance on agricultural biotechnology. U.S. officials stated "We will continue to press the "moral imperative" of biotech... - More
by Jeff Ubois, 4 January 2011 Permalink
Read also: Public Participation and the Governance of Innovation and Il potenziale sovversivo di Wikileaks (in Italian)
Categories Policy, biotechnology
Sustainable Innovation at the American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Last week the American Anthropological Association (AAA) hosted a discussion about sustainable innovation. Grounded in observations of social practice in particular localities, two points were particularly striking. One was the close relationship between responsibility and sustainability; to be responsible, innovation must be sustainable... - More
by Jeff Ubois, 2 December 2010 Permalink
Read also: AAA Annual Meeting 2010 and AAA Meeting - Sustainable Innovations
New Publication from FGB: Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility
The Fondazione Giannino Bassetti's new publication, Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility highlights approaches to responsibility in innovation taken by leading practitioners in disruptive fields. - More
by Jeff Ubois, 2 January 2010 Permalink
See also: FGB's publications
Towards Transparency -- or Lysenkoism?
Transparency and discussions of values would seem to be a cornerstone of responsibility in innovation. But to be effective, questions and processes of disclosure intended to foster transparency need to focus on those areas where conflicts of interest are meaningful. - More
by Jeff Ubois, 4 November 2009 Permalink
Categories Innovation, Policy
Judith Estrin: Closing the Innovation Gap
In this wide ranging interview, Estrin explains how business and political leaders can embrace policies that embody the values associated with innovation - openness, risk, questioning, persistence, and trust. And she warns that recent changes in business and government practice are putting innovation in the U.S. at risk. - More
by Jeff Ubois, 30 January 2009 Permalink
See also: Innovation and Politics by Piero Bassetti
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 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
An extract from the Oxford English Dictionary about the definition of the term 'policy'
III. 8. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 5) policy decision, document, -maker, -making, statement; policy-making adj.; policy science (see quot. 1951); hence policy scientist. 1960 I. JEFFERIES Dignity & Purity... - More
by Redazione FGB, 6 March 2006 Permalink
Categories Policy
Novel ideas on development, rogue states and international law: Hilary Benn and Tony Blair explain the new doctrine
Hilary Benn, state secretary for international development after Claire Short, has recently made a remarkable address on the new development doctrine in a lecture which took place the 4th of... - More
by Redazione FGB, 11 March 2004 Permalink
Categories Policy
