November 2012. The Revamped Bassetti Foundation Website

Dear readers, surfers and collaborators, after six years we have revamped the website. Each time this happens we rethink how we can live an internet space that is both alive and lively through the different internet seasons, while at the same time making sure that the space is an expression of an organization as complex ... November 2012. The Revamped Bassetti Foundation Website

Alessandro Scoscia
Redazione FGB
Tommaso Correale Santacroce

Battle for the Internet

Earlier this year the Guardian newspaper ran an interesting series entitled ‘Battle for the Internet’. The series is available online and makes a very interesting read. Over 7 days the series looked at many aspects of internet growth and its effect upon society. Many of the problems addressed have been raised on this website over ... Battle for the Internet

Jonathan Hankins

‘It feels like the right thing to do’: ethical perspectives of open science

by Ann Grand. Open science, an approach in which the entirety of an investigation – questions, raw data, methodologies, results, models, published outputs and more – is made available online, is a practice followed by a growing number of projects. Developed partly as a practical means to support multi-site and multi-national collaborations, it also embodies ... ‘It feels like the right thing to do’: ethical perspectives of open science

Ann Grand

Dan Sperber. New ways to describe and structure the societies

by Angela Simone. As if it were recently invented, the word interdisciplinarity can ever more regularly be heard in discussions both outside and within academia. After years of pushing towards an ever more refined specialization where the order of the day was to find space in a niche of knowledge that one could call either ... Dan Sperber. New ways to describe and structure the societies