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. - More
by Jonathan Hankins, 16 December 2021 Permalink
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
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
Building a biotech cluster: a meeting with Eliot Forster
On the 22nd of November 2018, the Bassetti Foundation had the pleasure and honour of hosting the 'Building a biotech cluster: the MedCity experience' seminar, an audience with Eliot Forster. - More
by Anna Pellizzone, redazione FGB, 28 December 2018 Permalink
Read in Italiano
Categories Conference, Lecture, Public Partecipation, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Read also: Uncertainty and disquiet and Omeopatia del rifiuto
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
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, Jonathan 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
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Public Partecipation, Responsibility and Science, Sustainability
Change makers
by Peter Goldmark. On the Changemakers site, if you click through to Competitions, you will find a series of global competitions seeking proposals to "change" or "improve" a particular system, or approach a specific problem, sponsored usually by a corporation or non-profit agency. - More
by Peter Goldmark, 11 November 2010 Permalink
Read also: Workshop on the G. Bassetti Foundation
Categories Public Partecipation
Categories Public Partecipation
Read also: more depth and Request for Comments on our site.
Leggi in ItalianoAsking the relevant questions about public participation
by Brice Laurent. Participatory experiments in nanotechnology have been numerous, but their outcomes are uncertain. Some have criticized the little interest these mechanisms have received in policy circles. The Grenoble case is telling for that matter. - More
by Redazione FGB, 28 January 2009 Permalink
See also: the interview with Christine Peterson by Jeff Ubois, Governance and participation in nanotechnology by Jonathan Hankins, Nanotechnology in this site (2005)
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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Is responsible innovation participatory, and if so, how?
Is responsible innovation participatory, and if so, how? Interviewed on his decade-long work on the history of science and its relevance to issues such as secrecy, scientist's responsibility, public understanding... - More
by Redazione FGB, 10 March 2007 Permalink
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