Enitecnologie-AGI Conference: Technological innovation and information in a scenario of rapid change. A conference about the changes information technologies are introducing into individuals’ and organizations’ life and the processes that allow communication and knowledge to become primary factors of competitive success. During the opening session, Massimiano Bucchi is speaking on “Democracy and Ignorance: the dilemmas…
The ongoing changes in the scientific-technological world, whose social-territorial impact is highlighted by the dominating globalisation process, are increasingly questioning the unconditioned sustainability of current decision-making procedures, typical of the traditional form of representative democracy characterising democratic States. Within this framework it seems difficult for politics to answer the “opposing requirements for efficiency on the…
10-14 october 2004: 2° European Plant Science Organization (EPSO) Conference: Interactions in Plant Biology: cells, plants and communities. During the 12th October session on “Plant Science and Society”, Massimiano Bucchi has been invited to lecture on “Why are people hostile to biotechnologies? Life Sciences, Democracy and Governance of Innovation”. More information at : http://www.epsoweb.org/catalog/conf2004.htm
IN3B project studied the visitor programmes at European research centres for physics in Germany, Greece, France/Switzerland and Italy. The project started from the consideration that a great number of international research centres for science and technology in Europe now offer regular visit programmes and ‘Open Days’ initiatives to the general public. Considerable effort and resources…