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Jonny Hankins of the Bassetti Foundation posted a blog about the first annual meeting of the Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation (VIRI), held 14 – 16 July, 2015, in Sussex, UK. 

VIRI member Jonny Hankins of the Basetti Foundation has contributed an article to IEEE’s Tech Talk blog. The article “What Does ‘Responsible Innovation’ Mean?” can be viewed here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/innovation/what-does-responsible-innovation-mean

The Bassetti Foundation provides brief descriptions of VIRI's five new members on its blog. 

VIRI partners Phil Macnaghten (University of Durham, UK) and Marko Monteiro (UNICAMP, Brazil) recently joined Ira Bennett's graduate-level Responsible Research and Innovation class by video.

The effects of science are unpredictable, unevenly spread and increasingly disruptive. We need to do more to shape technologies before they are fully formed, argues Jack Stilgoe.