http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2045 examining transformative technology Fri, 03 May 2013 19:22:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2045#comment-7064 Christine Peterson Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:07:39 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2045#comment-7064 Hi Richard -- The person to talk with about that is Jane Macoubrie, now with the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Wilson Center in DC. I will send you her email address. --CP Hi Richard — The person to talk with about that is Jane Macoubrie, now with the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Wilson Center in DC. I will send you her email address. –CP

]]> http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2045#comment-6828 Richard Jones Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:10:44 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2045#comment-6828 Christine, I agree entirely with your view that these processes do depend strongly on the integrity and skill of the organisers. My experience with Nanojury UK - as the chair of the science advisory panel I was responsible for arranging and briefing the scientific witnesses, I sat on the steering committee, and I attended three of the sessions - gave me a pretty acute consciousness of the potential pitfalls such a process could fall into. We need to learn from the experience of this and other similar ventures in the UK and around the world - maybe it is unrealistic to prescribe a completely uniform set of standardised procedures, but we should certainly try and distill this experience into some guidelines for best practise. This is one of the goals of a new body called the Nanotechnology Engagement Group, which has just been set up by the UK government. I'm chairing this group, and I'd very much like to hear from anyone who has been involved in any kind of citizen’s participation process around nanotechnology. Christine, I agree entirely with your view that these processes do depend strongly on the integrity and skill of the organisers. My experience with Nanojury UK – as the chair of the science advisory panel I was responsible for arranging and briefing the scientific witnesses, I sat on the steering committee, and I attended three of the sessions – gave me a pretty acute consciousness of the potential pitfalls such a process could fall into. We need to learn from the experience of this and other similar ventures in the UK and around the world – maybe it is unrealistic to prescribe a completely uniform set of standardised procedures, but we should certainly try and distill this experience into some guidelines for best practise. This is one of the goals of a new body called the Nanotechnology Engagement Group, which has just been set up by the UK government. I’m chairing this group, and I’d very much like to hear from anyone who has been involved in any kind of citizen’s participation process around nanotechnology.

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