Responsible Research and Innovation &amp; Digital Inclusiveness during Covid-19 Crisis in the Human Brain Project (HBP)

Grasenick, Karin; Guerrero, Manuel Alejandro

doi:10.1016/j.jrt.2020.06.001

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“…One application of the Responsible Research and Innovation framework during the COVID-19 crisis can be seen in the Human Brain Project (HBP), where it has been foundational in promoting digital inclusiveness when people are required to work from home. Grasenick and Guerrero (2020), who introduced this concept, started 'i-Include', an initiative for inclusive digital engagement developed to ensure that no one is left behind when increasing the virtualisation of work, meetings, and association and that issues around diversity are also considered in digital collaborations. To this end, they introduced a set of recommendations for social and family life, stress and anxiety, roles and responsibilities in different career stages, as well as team cohesion and virtual collaboration.…”

Section: Rri For Crisis Response and Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…4. An initiative for inclusive digital engagement was started in a large interdisciplinary project to help address issues of participation for those working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic (Grasenick & Guerrero, 2020); and 5. Braun et al (2020) highlighted how corporate interests could lead to an obstruction of inclusive and democratising dynamics.…”

Section: Rri For Crisis Response and Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Contact Tracing Apps for the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Responsible Innovation Perspective

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Philosophy of Engineering and Technology

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about the first real opportunity to test the efficacy of the Responsible Research and Innovation framework or RRI in a global health crisis. This is in view of the bold new approaches to health research and innovation that the pandemic has paved the way for. One such approach is the digital contact tracing application (CTA). Although contact tracing has been a fundamental part of infectious disease control for decades, this is the first time this technique has been used in mobile applications. Based on a Multivocal Literature Review, the development of CTAs in four countries – France, Germany, Spain, and the UK – was assessed to understand what dimensions of RRI can be identified in the governments’ response to COVID-19. This chapter shows that although from 2011, RRI has been promoted as a governance approach for increasing societal desirability of the processes and products of science and technology, very little is known about how the framework may be applied in a health crisis. Notwithstanding that RRI was not explicitly referenced during the development of CTAs in France, the UK, Spain, and Germany, the analysis has identified some interesting linkage to this framework. It shows that while no RRI approach was explicitly embraced by these governments, some key components were present – even though inadequately. It also indicates that, while it is challenging to apply RRI in crises, there is value in using it as an analytical tool for techno-social responses in situations, like those created by the COVID-19 health crisis.

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Contact Tracing Apps for the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Responsible Innovation Perspective

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Eke

et al. 2022

Philosophy of Engineering and Technology

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“…This The mobility restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the effect this is having on conventional work practices (Sein, 2020) means that research collaboration is only effectively possible because of collaboration and coordination technologies and the fact that researchers can work online and from home (Sowe et al, 2021). Many studies, for example (Grasenick & Guerrero (2020) and Rogers (2020), found that researchers are using various technologies to help them cope with the pandemic and continue their research. For project managers in general the New Normal is, most of the time, characterized by online video meetings, document sharing, the use of messaging platforms, and non-stop Zoom calls.…”

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Managing North-South Research Collaboration Projects During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Schoenfeld

Samimi

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International Journal of Information Technology Project Management

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Researchers from the Global North and South have collaborated for decades to conduct cutting-edge interdisciplinary research. The tools they used to manage their research projects remained virtually unchanged until the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak early in 2020. Since then, a lot has changed, including the nature and dynamics of research collaboration. How are researchers and project managers adapting to this change? Survey data, semi-structured interviews, and personal accounts from 102 respondents from 33 countries are used in this empirical study to investigate the impact of the pandemic on research collaboration projects. An independent non-parametric t-test revealed a significant difference in the research collaboration infrastructure and home environment between Global North and global South collaborators. The findings have practical implications for people involved in collaborative research projects, funding agencies, project management professionals, and universities interested in pursuing or sustaining North-South research collaboration during the pandemic.

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“…The strategy has been to have each subproject be represented by a rapporteur who can anticipate and address ethical and social issues raised by the relevant research and outline them regularly in a 'one-pager', a living written tool that helps the HBP to gain an ethics overview of the whole project. Rapporteurs also play an important role in other HBP RRI-related groups, such as the Dual Use Working Group and the Data Governance Working Group (Grasenick and Guerrero 2020).…”

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From Responsible Research and Innovation to responsibility by design

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Akintoye

Bitsch

et al. 2021

Journal of Responsible Innovation

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Drawing on more than eight years working to implement Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the Human Brain Project, a large EU-funded research project that brings together neuroscience, computing, social sciences, and the humanities, and one of the largest investments in RRI in one project, this article offers insights on RRI and explores its possible future. We focus on the question of how RRI can have long-lasting impact and persist beyond the time horizon of funded projects. For this purpose, we suggest the concept of 'responsibility by design' which is intended to encapsulate the idea of embedding RRI in research and innovation in a way that makes it part of the fabric of the resulting outcomes, in our case, a distributed European Research Infrastructure.

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Responsible Research and Innovation & Digital Inclusiveness during Covid-19 Crisis in the Human Brain Project (HBP)

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Contact Tracing Apps for the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Responsible Innovation Perspective

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