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. - Leggi
Recent Publications on Artificial Intelligence
In this post we take a look at two recent publications addressing issues around Artifical Intelligence. - Leggi
Categorie Report, Publications
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
Read also: other posts on VIRI
Categorie Conference, Innovation and Responsibility
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
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Categorie Conference
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
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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 Jonathan Hankins in attendance to report on proceedings. - Leggi
Read also: other posts on VIRI
Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Law, New Technologies, Policy, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science, Roboethics
EST-Frame Final Conference Report
On December 2 the EST-Frame Final Conference took place in Brussels Belgium. The conference was entitled Assessing emerging technologies - Towards an integrated approach. - Leggi
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). - Leggi
Leggi in Italiano
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). - Leggi
Leggi in Italiano
Layers of Uncertainty
A report from the third Science Technology Policy Crossroads symposium at the Harvard University Science Centre. The symposium was entitled 'Layers of Uncertainty: Conversations on the role of uncertainty in science and technology policy'. - Leggi
Read also: La società del rischio by Giuseppe O. Longo
Categorie Conference, Responsibility and Politics
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
Categorie Nanotechnology, Conference
Seminario di Wiebe Bijker in FGB
Lunedi 3 maggio a Milano Wiebe Bijker (Università di Maastricht) discuterà con Piero Bassetti, Cristina Grasseni, Paolo Volonté e Alessandro Blasimme il suo ultimo libro "The Paradox of Scientific Authority, The Role of Scientific Advice in Democracies", pubblicato insieme a Roland Bal e Ruud Hendriks nel 2009, presentando gli ultimi risultati della sua ricerca sulle diverse forme di "expertise" nei processi di democratizzazione delle culture tecnologiche. - Leggi
Categorie Seminari
Professor Wiebe E. Bijker in Giannino Bassetti Foundation
On May 3rd, 2010, the foundation has the honour of hosting Professor Wiebe E. Bijker in its Milan seat, via Michele Barozzi 4, at 15.30. Prof Bijker is currently Professor of Technology and Society at The University of Maastricht where his research focuses on the relationship between technology, society and science. - Leggi
Read also: Sheila Jasanoff in FGB

Categorie Seminari
Il Professor Wiebe E. Bijker in Fondazione Giannino Bassetti
Lunedi 3 maggio alle 15.30 la fondazione Bassetti ha l'onore di ospitare il professor Wiebe E. Bijker alla sua sede di Milano in via Michele Barozzi 4 . Wiebe Bijker insegna Tecnologia e Società all'università di Maastricht e la sua ricerca verte principalmente sulle relazioni tra scienza, tecnologia e società. - Leggi
Leggi anche: Sheila Jasanoff in FGB

Categorie Seminari
Green Travel Using Compressed Air
This month a lecturer and students at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology unveiled a prototype of a motorbike powered solely by compressed air. Interpreting sustainability as responsibility we take a look at progress made in emission free travel. - Leggi
Leggi anche: Design-Push Innovation: Changing Accepted Meanings an interview with Roberto Verganti
Categorie Presentazioni
Women&Technologies: creatività e innovazione
Women&Technologies® (2008-2015) è una Conferenza internazionale e un Laboratorio permanente di idee e di confronto per la comunicazione e la condivisione i cui strumenti principali sono portale web, social network, canali web 2.0 ed eventi pubblici e incontri istituzionali. - Leggi
Leggi anche: Innovazione e creatività
Categorie Conference, Convegni
Awareness, Perception And Interpretation: measurements vis-a-vis the complexity of life
This week in Rome, Italy MINET (Measuring the Impossible NETwork) host a workshop and think tank meeting on the theme of the measurement of perception and interpretation. On October 8th and 9th in Rome Italy the second MINET Workshop entitled "AWARENESS, PERCEPTION AND INTERPRETATION: measurements vis-a-vis the complexity of life" takes place at the Hotel Massimo D'Azeglio in Via Cavour. - Leggi
Categorie Eventi, Conference
Citizen Participation in Science and Technology
In this posting I would like to have a look at the work of the CIPAST project and a report published late last year by Chloe Alexander of the University of Padova in which she describes and analises the workings and perceived effectiveness of the project. - Leggi
Roberto Panzarani e la mappa per la globalizzazione
Abbiamo incontrato Roberto Panzarani, autore del volume "L'innovazione a colori: una mappa per la globalizzazione" (Luiss University Press, 2008). Gli abbiamo chiesto di approfondire alcuni aspetti della sua riflessione sugli scenari mondiali aperti dalla globalizzazione. - Leggi
Vedi anche: la recensione di Vittorio Bertolini al libro di Panzarani e "un dialogo con Panzarani" sul valore dell'intangibile
Technology in wartime conference
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Categorie Conference
Buying spy technology on the web
The development of miniature video and sound recording equipment means that DIY spying has never been easier. A quick internet search reveals an incredible world of cheaply and freely available spy technology. What does this tell us about "responsible" use of technology, and about the current state of (or the perceived need of) responsibility in innovation? - Leggi
Categorie Site
Richard R. Nelson in FGB
Richard Nelson, economista della Columbia University, ha centrato molta parte della sua attività di ricerca sui temi legati all'innovazione, alla crescita economica di lungo periodo e al ruolo della tecnologia nel processo evolutivo economico e sociale. Il 17 e 18 giugno ha tenuto all'Università Bocconi di Milano due lezioni organizzate dalla Fondazione Giannino Bassetti e dall'università stessa. 'An event which has at his centre an outstanding economist, Prof. Richard Nelson (whose excellence and merits will be specially illustrated by Franco Malerba) ad is sponsored by the Fondazione Giannino Bassetti'. - Leggi

Categorie Lecture
Introduction
I'll be exploring issues related to responsibility in innovation - Leggi

Categorie Blogs, Interviews
Introduction
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