Theme : nanotechnology
- Nano and development workshop Demos and Practical Action are holding a workshop for NGOs and scientists, designed to build a new research agenda for nanotechnology and development. from : jackstilgoe 11th September 2007
- Nanodialogues Depending who you ask, nanotechnology might be the Next Big Thing, the Next Asbestos or the Next GM. But before its impacts have been felt, nanotechnology has become a test case for a new sort of governance. It is an opportunity to reimagine the relationship between science and democracy. from : markfuller 28th June 2007
- All Talk? Nanotechnologies and public engagement Demos, Involve and the Science and Democracy Network invite you to join us for a day of discussion on Tuesday 26 June. From 09:30 to 15:30, we will be launching two reports, which present the results of the public engagement that has taken place in the UK through the Nanodialogues project and the Nanotechnology Engagement GroupIn 2004, the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering published a groundbreaking report on nanotechnologies, and called for more public debate. Three years on,... from : jackstilgoe 14th May 2007
- The science we need, the science we want The Council for Science and Technology - Government's highest-level science advisory group - have this morning published their review of progress on nano policy. Broadly the message is... good work on the public engagement and standard setting but two thumbs down for funding far too few nanotoxicity studies. As is so often the case with science policy's unclear lines of responsibility, the buck has been passed along. The Science Minister was on the Today programme arguing that the money was... from : jackstilgoe 28th March 2007
- A new soft machine As we gear up to tomorrow's Atlas of Ideas launch, focussing on science in China, India and Korea, I've been thinking about some new bits of world-class British science. I spent last week in a Nano-sand-pit, working with 20 of the countries leading nano-scientists on new ways of turning information into stuff (towards a sort of mini 3D printer). The Ideas Factory blog, which over the course of the week climbed into Wordpress's top-ten, attracting over 100 comments, has just announced one of... from : jackstilgoe 16th January 2007
- Nanowerk News: Nanotechnology in China: ambitions and realities event Nanowerk News: Nanotechnology in China: ambitions and realities event from : mollywebb 10th January 2007
- Public debate needs to move 'upstream' The government must start a public debate about nanotech now to avoid another anti-science backlash, according to a new report. from : mollywebb 1st August 2006
- Harare 1 - Snakes in a Well The third nanodialogue has just wrapped up. In Harare, we've spent the last two weeks with mushroom-farmers, brick-makers and water scientists, imagining the role that nanotechnology might play in their lives. The gulf between Western technoscience and applications for poor communities is far wider than I'd imagined. Ask people from Epworth - a Harare suburb currently recovering from Mugabe's Operation Murambatsvina - what they want from new technologies and they talk about the rope and washer.. from : jackstilgoe 24th July 2006
- Dialogue of the Defra Four of our People's Inquiry members and I went to Defra yesterday on the way home from work to chat about nanotechnology. All well and good and friendly doing public engagement. But it's a lot to ask people to head into a civil service corner office to chat to people all of whose waking hours are spent in the discomfort of nanotechnology policy. They played a blinder. The discussion was fascinating, and if it has no purchase on the emerging shape of nano, I will be interested to know why.Who... from : jackstilgoe 26th May 2006
- Not so magic nano The promise and reality of nanotechnology are dancing again. More and more nano products drop out of the future to challenge the governance of technology. I've just written a piece on "Magic Nano" for open democracy . Though it may or may not contain a nano-something, and this nano-something may or may not have been the cause, a bunch of people were taken to hospital hours after using Magic Nano, days after it went on sale. The immediate questions this sort of thing asks of policy are a drop... from : jackstilgoe 28th April 2006
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