FONDAZIONE GIANNINO BASSETTI

Engagement of Publics in the JRI

In this post, Jonathan Hankins offers an overview of the recent Engagement With Publics Collection published in the Journal of Responsible Innovation. - Leggi 

Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 9, Issue 3

In this article Jonathan Hankins reviews Issue 3 of Volume 9 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation, published in December of 2022. - Leggi 

Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 9, Issue 2

In this post we review Issue 2 of Volume 9 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation. - Leggi 

René von Schomberg: Prospects of Institutionalizing the Research Values 'openness' and 'Collaboration'

In November 2022, René von Schomberg delivered an open lecture at the International Centre for Advanced Studies, Kaete Hamburger Kolleg, RWTH Aachen University. The focus was on Robert Merton's Ethos of Science, raising the question of whether the institution of science requires reformation or the formulation of a new ethos. Jonathan Hankins publishes his notes taken at the event. - Leggi 

Volume 9, Issue 1 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation Reviewed

Volume 9, Issue 1 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation was released earlier this summer (open-access). Jonathan Hankins reviews it for the Foundation - Leggi 

Fostering Responsible Computing Research, Foundations and Practices

The committee on Responsible Computing Research of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has published a Consensus Study Report entitled Fostering Responsible Computing Research, Foundations and Practices. A review by Jonathan Hankins. - Leggi 

Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 8, Issue 3 - review

Jonathan Hankins reviews the latest edition of the Journal of Responsible Innovation - Leggi 

Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 8-2. Special issue: RRI Futures

A Review of the Journal of Responsible Innovation Special Issue RRI Futures - Learning from a decade of Responsible Research and Innovation - Leggi 

Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 8, Issue 1 reviewed

The first issue of Volume 8 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation was released in May of 2021, an important milestone for the Journal as it was the first to be open access from its day of publication. In this post we offer an overview of this groundbreaking issue. - Leggi 

Two Recent Academic Publications from Bassetti Foundation Collaborators

In this post we take a look at two recent publications from Bassetti Foundation collaborators. - Leggi 

Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future - Book Review

Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future. An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies is the latest book from Bernd Carsten Stahl. In this post Jonathan Hankins offers an overview. - Leggi 

Luck as a challenge for the responsible governance of science and technology. JRI Special Issue part 2.

In this post we take a look at the second recent Special Issue offered by the Journal of Responsible Innovation: Luck as a challenge for the responsible governance of science and technology. - Leggi 

Journal of Responsible Innovation, Special Issue on Public engagement in contested political contexts

An overview of the JRI Special Issue Public engagement in contested political contexts: reflections on the role of recursive reflexivity in responsible innovation - Leggi 

Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 7, Issue 3 reviewed - Part 2

In this post, the second part of our review of Volume 7, Issue 3 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation. - Leggi 

Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 7, Issue 3 reviewed - Part 1

In this post we review the first twelve articles of the newly released Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 7, Issue 3. - Leggi 

ROSIE Project Final Virtual Meeting, a Review

A short report on the ROSIE project final event, a celebration and presentation of three year's work carried out across 8 central European countries and involving 11 partners. - Leggi 

Collaboration during COVID-19 | Bottom-up and open source initiatives: report them here!

citizen science, bottom-up innovation and collaborative approaches to research and innovation are making important contributions to broadening and accelerating our capacity to respond to the health emergency provoked by COVID-19. we are waiting for your reports! - Leggi 

Collaborare ai tempi del COVID-19 | Iniziative bottom-up e open source: mandaci le tue segnalazioni!

La citizen science, l'innovazione bottom-up e un approccio collaborativo alla ricerca all'innovazione stanno dando un importante contributo per accelerare la nostra capacità di rispondere all'emergenza sanitaria scatenata dal COVID-19. Contribuisci segnalando i porgetti che conosci! - Leggi 

It's Circular Forum. Future Cities smart, digital and circular. Le città del futuro interconnesse

Nel marzo del 2019 si è svolta la seconda edizione del forum sull'economia circolare 'It's Circular Forum'. Otre a condividere i video degli interventi cogliamo l'occasione per fornire un po' di link ad altri materiali di approfondimento. - Leggi 

It's Circular Forum. Metodologie, visioni e pratiche di design circolare

Nei giorni 15 e 16 di aprile 2018 si è tenuta a Milano la prima edizione di 'It's Circular Forum', un forum su metodologie, visioni e pratiche di design circolare curato dal Distretto 5vie Art+Design. Fondazione Bassetti, tra i sostenitori del progetto, condivide la documentazione dell'evento con video e fotografie. - Leggi 

Recent Publications on Artificial Intelligence

In this post we take a look at two recent publications addressing issues around Artifical Intelligence. - Leggi 

VIRI 2018, a short report

A review of this year's Annual Meeting of the Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation (VIRI) held in Szeged in Hungary - Leggi 

VIRI, Fourth International Meeting

The fourth international meeting of the Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation is about to take place on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th October in Szeged, Hungary. - Leggi 

CRISPR: il parere deontologico dell'Associazione Nazionale Biotecnologi Italiani.

Lo scorso 10 aprile il Collegio dei Probiviri dell'Associazione Nazionale Biotecnologi Italiani (ANBI) ha pubblicato un parere deontologico sulle più recenti tecnologie di genome editing, con particolare riferimento al sistema CRISPR. - Leggi 

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 Jonathan Hankins offers a short first hand report on the proceedings and experience. - Leggi 

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. - Leggi 

Trust in expert knowledge in medicine and Technoscience. A meeting with Silvia Camporesi

We addressed these issues with Silvia Camporesi who from the starting point of the publication of extracts from the Investigating Trust in Expert Knowledge International Conference published in a special issue of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, held a symposium at the Bassetti Foundation on 27 February 2017. We share videos, photos, slides and other material. - Leggi 

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. - Leggi 

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. - Leggi 

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. - Leggi 

An Interview with Chris Howard, CEO of Libboo

In this interview Jonathan 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. - Leggi 

Planet of the Apes

If you find yourself at a loss for a Christmas present for a like-minded adult, might I suggest that you consider the new Planet of the Apes film, released last week on DVD and Blue Ray? It raises a lot of important ethical issues. - Leggi 

Il dilemma del virus letale creato in laboratorio

Un gruppo di virologi olandesi ha ottenuto in laboratorio una variante del virus dell'influenza aviaria, in grado di trasmettersi efficacemente da uomo a uomo. Il risultato del loro studio deve essere pubblicato? - Leggi 

Ethics, Human Enhancement and Genetics. Report and Video

by Virginia Sanchini. The aim of the workshop was to investigate how the latest progress in biotechnologies impacts our understanding of the traditional matters of moral and political philosophy. Report, Video and Photos. - Leggi 

Guerre a distanza e responsabilità

Le nuove tecnologie, informatiche e robotiche, stanno modificando il modo di programmare e condurre le guerre, separando - fisicamente e psicologicamente - i luoghi in cui i mezzi bellici sono comandati da quelli in cui effettivamente agiscono. Le implicazioni di questo mutamento sono state affrontate dalla rivista scientifica Nature, e in una tavola rotonda che si è tenuta all'inizio di settembre. - Leggi 

Ethics, Human Enhancement and Genetics. Workshop all'ECAP7

Le innovazioni nel campo della scienza e della tecnologia sono spesso origine di discussioni pubbliche, ma poche di esse hanno generato dibattiti così intensi come le innovazioni biotecnologiche sul potenziamento delle capacità umane. All'ECAP7 un workshop su questo tema. - Leggi 

Prosthetic by choice?

Following on from the arguments raised during the discussion with athlete Marta Milani, this article looks at some of the issues posed by advances in prosthetic technology, and the issue of a patient's choice to amputate a hand in order to have a prosthetic hand fitted. - Leggi 

Panoramica: inizio vita

di Virginia Sanchini. Numerose sono le problematiche del cosiddetto periodo di inizio vita: la procreazione medicalmente assistita, la nascita di neonati gravemente prematuri, l'aborto, la contraccezione, e tutti gli aspetti legati all'eugenetica. Tutte condividono il medesimo interrogativo etico... - Leggi 

Il corpo tra tecnologia ed etica

In occasione della mostra di arte e scienza Happy Tech. Macchine dal volto umano a Milano, sono stati organizzati due incontri tra personalità di spicco del mondo della cultura scientifica ed umanistica per approfondire le interconnessioni tra la scienza e l'altro, cioè l'arte, la tecnologia e tutti i molteplici linguaggi dell'uomo. - Leggi 

The price of life of a premature baby

On Wednesday 9th March the BBC will air a documentary entitled 23 Week babies : The price of life in which director Adam Wishart addresses the problem of the cost involved in saving premature babies. - Leggi 

Sesto forum di Politeia: Responsibility for Sustainability

Il Sesto Forum di Politeia su Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global Economy si terrà a Milano il 26 Febbraio 2010. Il tema di questa edizione è: "Corporate and Stakeholder Responsibility for Sustainability" - Leggi 

Salvatore Veca, Etica e verità - Saggi (ingannevolmente) brevi

di Alberto Schena. Recensione del libro di Salvatore Veca "Etica e verità", dove nel dilemma espresso dal titolo, e in particolare dalla congiunzione "e" tra i due termini etica e verità, si parla del rapporto tra politica, scienza e filosofia, tra etica della responsabilità ed etica della convinzione. - Leggi 

Home DNA Testing for all the Family

On 17th November 2009 home DNA testing kits went on over the counter sale for the first time in high street chemists in the UK. These kits allow the DNA testing of a child's paternity and involve the taking of saliva from both the child and the 'alleged father's' mouth (their terminology) and its analysis. - Leggi 

Teaching ethics in an age of crisis

Lunedì 30 novembre 2009 presso l'Università degli Studi Milano Bicocca un convegno per discutere se esiste effettivamente una responsabilità etica delle professioni economiche e per analizzare esperienze internazionali di inserimento di business ethics nella formazione delle professioni economiche e manageriali. E' previsto il live streaming (in inglese) - Leggi 

An Ethics For Emerging Technologies

In this article Jonathan Hankins reviews a recent report entitled Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology; a review of the debates, published by the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington DC. - Leggi 

A Little Ethical Light Reading for the holidays

In this article Jonathan Hankins proposes a little light reading for the holiday period, taking a look at some of the remarkable works of Richard G Epstein. - Leggi 

Neuroscienze e futuro militare

"Opportunities in Neuroscience for Future Army Applications" del National Research Council è un libro che propone l'applicazione delle neuroscienze al corpo militare. Ancora una volta sorge la sensazione della necessità di porre linee etiche di riferimento lungo cui far scorrere lo sviluppo delle nuove tecnologie e delle nuove scienze. - Leggi 

Will Machines Outsmart Humans?

In this posting Jonathan Hankins looks at some recent press articles that address the problem of artificial intelligence in its different forms. - Leggi 

Oversights in Oversighting Nanotechnology

In this article Jonathan Hankins follows up on his series of postings on nanotechnology by taking a look at the recent report entitled Oversight of Next Generation Nanotechnology written by J Clarence Davies and published by The Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars. - Leggi 

Is ethics a branch of Politics?

Returning to take a more in-depth look at the work of The Hastings Centre and interest in bio-ethics, Jonathan Hankins provides a review of their recent online and hardback publication entitled From Birth to Death and Bench to Clinic: The Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book for Journalists, Policymakers, and Campaigns. - Leggi 

International course in Public Communication and Applied Ethics of Nanotechnology

From 22 to 27th March 2009 an international advanced course entitled Public Communication and Applied Ethics of Nanotechnology takes place at St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford in the UK. The course is aimed at anyone working within nanotechnology or with an interest in its public communication and ethical implications... - Leggi 

What's the social and ethical responsibility of basic science?

by Maximilian Fochler. At the Euroscience Open Forum 2008 in Barcelona a group of leading scholars from the sciences, as well as from the interdisciplinary field of Social Studies of Science (STS), gathered to debate the social and ethical responsibility of basic research - a question of vital importance for wider debates on how contemporary societies may best govern processes of innovation and their ethical and social implications. - Leggi 

Robotics. A new science

On 20th February an important conference on robotics took place in Rome entitled "Robotics: A New Science". The event was conceived as a seminar whose objective was that of discussing the contemporary development of robotics within the framework of recent scientific and technological developments in the informatics, telecommunication, software and electronics sectors. In this article Fiorella Operto explains the principal points of discussion. - Leggi 

By Any Other Name

For people new to the work of the Bassetti Foundation, the concept of "responsibility in innovation" can be somewhat elusive. But like most other general concepts, responsibility in innovation is reflected in a wide variety of disciplines, though often by other names. For example... - Leggi 

Robotica. Una nuova scienza

Fiorella Operto propone alcune riflessioni sull'importante convegno "Robotica. Una nuova scienza" che si è svolto in febbraio a Roma presso l'Accademia dei Lincei. Un crescente dibattito internazionale che vuole portare a ripensare in chiave etica un ambito di ricerca, la robotica, profondamente influenzato dai recenti sviluppi scientifici e tecnologici nei settori dell'informatica, delle telecomunicazioni, del software e dei dispositivi elettronici. - Leggi 

Participatory design: an Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale (part 3)

The third part of the Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale: he offers insights into IRBs, participatory design, managing design tradeoffs, ethics and empowerment. - Leggi 

Participatory design: an Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale (part 2)

The second part of the Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale: he offers insights into IRBs, participatory design, managing design tradeoffs, ethics and empowerment. - Leggi 

Participatory design: an Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale (part 1)

Dr. Michael Twidale is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In this discussion, he offers insights into IRBs, participatory design, managing design tradeoffs, ethics and empowerment. - Leggi 

La reinvenzione del cibo

Una recensione di Nicole Lozzi del libro "La reinvenzione del cibo. Culture del gusto fra tradizione e globalizzazione ai piedi delle Alpi" di Cristina Grasseni, edito da Qui Edit. "Da quando l'innovazione tecnologica in campo agro-alimentare ha cominciato a rivoluzionare le abitudine alimentari, è fiorito un interesse interdisciplinare - che coinvolge l'etica, la sociologia, la politologia, etc. - sul tema del cibo..." - Leggi 

Commission launches consultation on responsible nano research

The European Commission has launched a consultation on responsible research in nanosciences and nanotechnologies. The consultation will close on 21 September. - Leggi 

Terri Schiavo: Innovation, Decision Making and the Future of Ethics

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