#Responsibility and Politics

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 jonny Hankins in attendance to report on proceedings. The conference consists of both plenary and session presentations and discussions on ... Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics and Annual VIRI meeting

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Looking Back on 2016

2016 was a busy year for the Bassetti Foundation (FGB), involving our participation in projects and conferences and events across the world. In this editorial we cast a light upon some of the year’s major events. Responsible Research and Innovation in Europe and across the World January saw FGB participate in the Go4 Joint Final ... Looking Back on 2016

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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. — Turning the tide or surfing the wave? Responsible Research and Innovation, fundamental rights and neoliberal virtues. The ... Turning the tide or surfing the wave?

Guido Gorgoni
Simone Arnaldi

Responsible Research and Innovation: The Problematic Quest For Right Impacts.

The Responsible Research and Innovation: The Problematic Quest For Right Impacts International Conference took place between March 11th and 12th, 2016 at the Donastia International physics Centre, Donastia-San Sebastian. The conference was followed by the Annual VIRI meeting. I attended both the conference and the AGM in my role as Bassetti Foundation Foreign Correspondent. In ... Responsible Research and Innovation: The Problematic Quest For Right Impacts.

Jonathan Hankins
Sally Randles

Fourth NWO Responsible Innovation Conference

On 24 – 25 August 2015 the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) hosted the Fourth International Conference on Responsible Innovation in The Hague, the Netherlands. Readers may recall the conference from last year, when Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins presented during the poster session. This year’s conference aimed to discuss the merits, practices and necessity ... Fourth NWO Responsible Innovation Conference

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The RRI Tools Hubs Meeting

The RRI Tools Hubs Meeting brings to Lisbon around 60 researchers, science communicators, educators and policy makers, from 30 countries, to debate and present concrete examples of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in action. The event is organized by the RRI Tools project, a consortium of 26 institutions that brings together considerable experience in the ... The RRI Tools Hubs Meeting

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Bassetti Foundation at the Responsible Innovation 2014 Conference

The conference runs through the 21st and 22nd of May and is titled “Responsible Innovation: Values and Valorisation”, and will be one of the largest conferences on responsible innovation this year. Readers will know several of the Keynote Speakers from previous posts. Jeroen Van den Hoven has a chapter in Owen, Bessant and Heintz’s book ... Bassetti Foundation at the Responsible Innovation 2014 Conference

Cristina Grasseni
Jonathan Hankins
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Focus on SciencesPo

On Feb 10th 2014, long time friend of the Bassetti Foundation Bruno Latour opens his Scientific Humanities course to the world in MOOC form. The course is offered online, is conducted in English and is free, with just a simple registration required. According to the website “Scientific humanities means the extension of interpretative skills to ... Focus on SciencesPo

Jonathan Hankins

Innovating with Beauty. Preliminary program.

In San Francisco and the Bay Area for the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the US, Giannino Bassetti Foundation presents the culture, beauty and innovation of ‘Made in Italy’ design: exhibitions, debate and comparison between the cutting edge models of Italian production and the technology of Silicon Valley, towards a new economy of beauty. ... Innovating with Beauty. Preliminary program.

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A Report On Responsible Research and Innovation

As a follow up to my post regarding René Von Schomberg’s Matrix for Responsible Innovation I would like to point readers towards a document entitled “A Report On Responsible Research and Innovation” that is free to download from the MATTER homepage linked below. The document was written by Hilary Sutcliffe, the Director of MATTER, on ... A Report On Responsible Research and Innovation

Jonathan Hankins

Layers of Uncertainty

On Monday March 5th I attended 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’, details are available from their website linked above. The key note speech was delivered by Rear Admiral Ali ... Layers of Uncertainty

Ethics, Human Enhancement and Genetics. Report and Video

WORKSHOP at ECAP7 Sept 4th, 2011, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan Report, video and photos, abstracts. A REPORT by Virginia Sanchini The workshop was organized by Prof. Roberto Mordacci, chair of Moral Philosophy at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, and by Michele Loi, post-doc researcher at the same University. The aim of the ... Ethics, Human Enhancement and Genetics. Report and Video

Virginia Sanchini