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Workshop Summary
Second Meeting of the International Nanotechnology and Society Network (INSN)
The second meeting of the International Nanotechnology and Society Network (INSN) took place Monday October 17th 2005 at the Southwalk Cathedral Conference Center in London UK. This meeting was designed as a follow up to the inaugural meeting of the INSN in January of 2005, agenda items included, following up on action items from previous meeting, discussing issues such as governance and membership, as well as developing an intellectual agenda for the Network. In addition to the business matters, the meeting allowed the Network to interact with new members including the new institutional member the Center for Nanotechnology in Society-University of California Santa Barbara (CNS-UCSB).
The morning session was opened and chaired by Daniel Sarewitz from the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (CSPO) at Arizona State University (ASU). The morning session consisted of brief updates by INSN institutional members, CSPO/CNS-ASU (Dan Sarewitz), NanoNed at University of Twente (Arie Rip), University of Lancaster and Demos (Phil McNaughton and James Wilsdon) and CNS-UCSB(Barbara Harthorn).
The afternoon session was chaired by James Wilsdon, and opened with an around the table discussion of other projects that were ongoing by INSN members. This session included discussions about coordination of activities, in addition to discussions on the development of intellectual and research frameworks. During the discussion on governance and membership it was decided that an Executive Committee be formed that included members from INSN member organizations as well as representatives from less represented regions.
Executive Committee - Institutional Members:
Dan Sarewitz CSPO/CNS-ASU James Wilson Demos Arie Rip NanoNed Barbara Harthorn CNS-UCSB
Executive Committee - Individual Members:
Guillermo Foladori Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico Julia Guivant Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Alfred Nordmann or his designee, EU Masahiro Takemura or his designee, Japan
What are the strengths of an international research network and how can they be utilized to produce outcomes different than researchers working alone or in regional collaborations. The following list is projects that members brainstormed, and those with leads will be reported on in March, that takes advantage of the networks regional and intellectual assets.
INSN COLLABORATION PRIORITIES:
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