innovation

Last week, while scrolling through my Facebook timeline, an event invitation popped up: “10-10: Sound the alarm against TTIP!” Triggered by this title, I clicked on the pop-up and landed on the page of a protest organized by, among others, Greenpeace, FNV (the Dutch labor union) and the political parties SP and GroenLinks. I’d heard about TTIP before, but it definitely got my full attention when…

We in the Netherlands are surrounded by media influences all day. We can look at nu.nl, buy newspapers or even receive them in our mailbox every morning. If we turn on the television there is a nearly constant stream of news differentiating from Al Jazeera to BBC world news, and NPO nieuws to RTL Z. Everything is available at all times, and everything is open for discussion due to social media…

”Responsible Innovation requires several I’s, and they need to work together.” By Olivier Rutgers “The greatest danger to our future is apathy”   Jane Goodall, anthropologist and biologist Growing up in a first world country as a privileged male college student has a lot of advantages. But we tend to forget this when we start worrying if our phone will still be charged enough so we can watch an…

Although week 1 had many topics to introduce, I strongly believe that group one organized their activities and presentations well. Not only did they use course materials but also they came up with own examples from real life. What I also liked about the way they presented is that one of members did some drawings when he was explaining about moral and causal involvement. He came up with a specific…

H ow can you implement technologies into society without causing damage? The answer is: you cannot. But you can innovate in a responsible way. I think that you are innovating responsibly when the list of positive consequences is longer than the list of negative consequences taken a, for instance, damage grade into account. Let’s analyze this example: a woman puts a cat in a microwave to dry where…

The influence of knowledge on responsibility This week’s topic introduced us to many new terms related to responsibility, like causal and moral responsibility, but also individual and collective responsibility. To decide whether a person or party is either causal or morally responsible always depends on the amount of knowledge that this person or party has about the problem.   In particular