FONDAZIONE GIANNINO BASSETTI

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

Technology in wartime conference

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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 

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 

Introduction

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

Introduction

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