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• Participatory nanotechnology ethics: Join right in

  Nanowerk reports on a new nanotechnology ethics database at IIT: NanoEthicsBank. Perhaps the most interesting aspect is their experiment with participatory tagging: In conjunction with the fixed subject terms used in the NanoEthicsBank, we are also developing Read more
  Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 7:35 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotech reports & publications, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Environmental groups dispute about nanotechnology

  We mentioned earlier a request for comment on a proposed Nano Risk Framework for approaching nanotechnology materials safety organized by Environmental Defense and DuPont. Now a different group of organizations has come out against that framework. Their statement Read more
  Posted Friday, April 13, 2007 7:48 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 1 Comments

  Tags: Nanoscale Bulk Technologies, Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Nanotechnology: People hear what they want to hear

  A recent study by Yale Law School on how people’s views on nanotechnology change when they learn more information found that people seem to use whatever they are told to reinforce what they expect to hear. See the graph and analysis on this page: There Read more
  Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:06 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Public Involvement, Nanotech reports & publications, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Your chance to influence nanotechnology policy

  If you’re a Foresight member, you’re already helping improve nanotechnology policy, but here’s another way: apply to participate in the upcoming online course Debating Science and The Nanotechnology Debate. In the syllabus (pdf), the actual Read more
  Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 5:26 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Public still sensible about nanotechnology

  Public attitudes toward nanotechnology are being tracked closely — perhaps more closely than for any previous set of newly-arriving technologies. The surveys vary a bit, but here’s one by Prof. Steven Currall of University College London that fits Read more
  Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 5:36 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Public Involvement, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• French citizen panel: Nanotechnology is too technical

  EurActiv.com reports on a citizens’ panel on nanotechnology held by the Ile de France region: Citizens find nanotechs ‘elitist’ A citizens’ conference on nanotechnologies in France found public information on nanosciences difficult Read more
  Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2007 4:23 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotechnology, Humor, Nanotech, Nano, European Nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology hazard symbol misleading

  We should assume that those participating the ETC Group’s nanotechnology hazard symbol contest are all trying to be helpful, and such a symbol may someday be of some use. However, of the three top symbols named as winners, the first one — by far the Read more
  Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:17 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Memetics

• Nanotechnology prof boggles nano community

  On the plane back from last week’s U.S. National Nanotechnology Coordinating Office-sponsored workshop on ethics and nanotechnology, I dug into the report “Health and Nanotechnology: Economic, Societal, and Institutional Impact” (not on web, Read more
  Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 7:25 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotech reports & publications, Nanotechnology, Government programs, Nanotech, Nano

• Deadline to double nanotechnology impact: this Sunday

  Regular readers of Nanodot know that we rarely use this space to “bleg” (i.e., request donations via blog). We make an exception for our annual $40,000 Challenge Grant, during which your donations are doubled. As this is posted, we have about $30,000 Read more
  Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 4:54 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, International organizations, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, About Foresight, Foresight News

• Sensible Swiss views on nanotechnology benefits, downsides

  Switzerland’s Centre for Technology Assessment has issued its report Public Reactions to Nanotechnology in Switzerland (428 KB pdf), and — not surprisingly — it’s relatively balanced. From page 33 (page 35 of pdf file): “There’s a good Read more
  Posted Friday, December 22, 2006 5:05 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotech reports & publications, Nanotechnology, Government programs, Nanotech, Nano, European Nanotechnology