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Monitoring the Evolution and Benefits of Responsible Research and Innovation (MoRRI) - a preliminary framework for measuring RRI dimensions

2016 , Mejlgaard, Nils , Bührer, Susanne , Griessler, Erich , Lindner, Ralf , Maroulis, Nikos , Meijer, Ingeborg , Peter, Viola , Rafols, Ismael , Ravn, Tine , Stilgoe, Jack , Tsipouri, Lena , Woolley, Richard , Wroblewski, Angela

European efforts to "mainstream" the notion of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is challenged by a lack of organisational and individual incentives, but also by absense of relevant measures of RRI. The European Commission has launched a study with the aim of developing indicators capturing the evolution and benefits of RRI across Europe. This paper presents the preliminary set of indicators identified by the project consortium.

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Social networking tools supporting constructive involvement throughout the policy-cycle

2010 , Taylor-Smith, E. , Lindner, R.

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Electronic petitions and the relationship between institutional contexts, technology and political participation

2008 , Lindner, R. , Riehm, U.

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Safeguards in a world of ambient intelligence

2006 , Maghiros, I. , Punie, Y. , Delaitre, S. , Hert, P. de , Gutwirth, S. , Schreurs, W. , Moscibroda, A. , Friedewald, M. , Lindner, R. , Wright, D. , Vildjiounaite, E. , Alahuhta, P.

Intelligent devices embedded everywhere and interconnected with always-on capability enable new services and applications to emerge but also greatly magnify the risk of abuse of the exchanged data. This article presents the need to develop safeguards in order to protect valuable assets if society at large is to benefit from AmI. Since the challenge lies in identifying safeguards for threats and vulnerabilities that are yet to be defined, the dark scenarios developed by the SWAMI project (safeguards in a world ambient intelligence), can be presented as a tool to help illustrate risks that need to be mediated if AmI is to be a future success story and against which safeguards need to be drawn.

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Navigating towards responsible research and innovation

2015 , Nielsen, Morten V. , Lindner, Ralf , Bryndum, Nina , Burchardt, Ulla , Schofield, Monica , Stilgoe, Jack

The uptake and development of responsible research and innovation (RRI) ranges from policy debates to initiatives in the governance of research, technology and innovation. In this context, ""responsibility"" is interpreted with a two fold goal: a precautionary goal of avoiding an adverse impact on research and innovation and a promotional goal of supporting the desired impact of research and innovation. Some of the many inspirations for RRI governance can be found in, for example, foresight, technology assessment, responsibility frameworks, codes of conduct, and CSR. A growing number of studies question the effectiveness and legitimacy of these instruments as used in diverse settings. Thus, the conditions and the governance instruments currently used in RRI practice are under exposed and fairly unknown. Against this background, the session dealt with why we need RRI, which current practices can inspire RRI, and the challenges of making RRIa relevant concept from the perspectives of policy-making, industry and academia.

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Using social networking tools to promote eparticipation initiatives

2009 , Taylor-Smith, E. , Lindner, R.

This paper describes the context and background of the conference workshop "Social networking tools and widgets to promote or expand eParticipation initiatives". Social networking tools form many people's main Internet destination and communication method and appear to be largely "free" to use. EParticipation initiatives are increasingly applying these tools in their promotion strategies to encourage more people to get involved. Further, some eParticipation initiatives are piloting the use of social networking tools and sites at the interactive core of their participation processes. This paper looks at these objectives in more detail. It begins to identify characteristics of individual projects and types of social networking tools that will need to be explored by practitioners, in order to successfully promote their projects this way. This identification process began before the workshop, by using a simple matrix to gather information about projects' use of social networking tools.

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What is needed to make EPetitions work?

2008 , Berntzen, L. , Lindner, R. , Santucci, D.

The body of knowledge related to electronic petitions is steadily growing. The panel participants will present some recent research results and evaluations of current e-petitions solutions. The panel will specifically discuss the difference between government initiated solutions and grass root approaches to e-petitioning, and what governments need to learn from the grass root initiatives.

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Broadening participation through e-petitions? Results from an empirical study on petitions to the German parliament

2010 , Lindner, R. , Riehm, U.

Petitioning is a well established form of political participation in most liberal democracies. Yet, little is known about petitioners, their socio-demographics, motivations and assessments of petitioning processes. After the German parliament had introduced public e-petitions which are submitted, signed and discussed on the Internet in 2005, a survey of 571 traditional as well as 350 e-petitioners was carried out in 2007 as a part of a comprehensive evaluation study of the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Parliament (TAB). The results indicate that both petitioner samples are characterised by an above average level of general political participation and Internet use. Users of the e-petition system are younger than traditional petitioners, but the group continues to be dominated by men and those with higher levels of formal education to the same degree as among traditional petitioners. According to our findings, the Internet-based participation channel e-petitioning seems to amplify existing inequalities in participation patterns as they predominately attract highly mobilised and politically active individuals with a disproportionately high socio-economic status. Preliminary results of an ongoing follow-up study by and large confirm this conclusion.

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Internationale E-Petitionssysteme im Vergleich: Zum Zusammenspiel von politisch-institutionellem Kontext und technischem Design

2008 , Lindner, R.

Der Beitrag stellt die wesentlichen Ergebnisse einer international vergleichenden Analyse von E-Petitionsangeboten dar. Betrachtet werden drei öffentliche E-Petitionssysteme (Schottland, Queensland sowie norwegischer Kommunen) und zwei nicht-staatliche Angebote. Neben einem groben Überblick über das breite Spektrum von Verfahren und technischen Konfigurationen wird insbesondere der Frage nachgegangen, welche Gestaltungsmerkmale sich in der Praxis bewähren, wie die Angebote genutzt werden und welche Auswirkungen auf politische Prozesse zu beobachten sind.

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Policy options to counteract threats and vulnerabilities - first results

2006 , Friedewald, M. , Wright, D. , Lindner, R. , Vildjiounaite, E. , Ahonen, P.

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