Past CSPO Events
- October 01, 2015CSPO DC - New Tools for Science Policy
From Asteroids to Oceans: Using Public Engagement to Inform Policy Decisions
The Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes (CSPO) and its partners have become global innovators in developing methods and tools that bring informed public voices and perspectives into critical scientific and technological decisions. At the next New Tools for Science Policy breakfast, we will present a model of public engagement that recently provided useful input for NASA’s Asteroid Initiative. Working through the Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology (ECAST) network, CSPO brought together university, museum, and client partners to provide an unprecedented, real-time technology assessment for a federal agency.
Ira Bennett, Amy Kaminski, Darlene Cavalier, Mahmud Farooque, David Sittenfeld, David Tomblin, Jason Kessler, David Rabkin
- September 30, 2015CSPO enLIGHTeNING Lunch
EnLIGHTeNING Lunch with Marisa Duarte
Decolonial Design Values: Discerning Distinctively Indigenous Sociotechnical Approaches
What happens when leaders in tribal border communities—places scored with years of racial conflict and questionable land claims—decide to built out digital infrastructures that challenge unpleasant values such as racial prejudice, xenophobia, and profiteering on impoverished populations?
Marisa Duarte
- September 25, 2015CSPO Occasional Seminar
SFIS Seminar
Innovations in Society: Insights from Science Communication Research
Sponsored by the School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Insights from Science Communication Research
Dominique E. Brossard
- September 21, 2015CSPO DC
Diversifying the Climate Dialogue
CSPO Conversations
Cultivating public discourse and enlarging policy discussions have been central to our work at ASU’s Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes (CSPO). As the next big international conference on climate change begins this fall in Paris, CSPO is pleased to host a dialog on ways to include perspectives that have not traditionally been part of the climate conversation. A diversity of voices is essential for confronting a problem as enormous as global climate change: engaging with differing perspectives helps discover innovative approaches and gains the support of citizens impacted by climate policies—policies that have often been plagued by divisiveness and gridlock. In discussing models for citizen engagement, including the recent World Wide Views deliberations on climate and energy, and by hearing from viewpoints that are frequently missing in climate debates, this CSPO Conversations event will inform and enrich our approach to climate change.
Yves Mathieu, Christopher Shank, Jose Aguto, Daniel Sarewitz
- September 02, 2015CSPO enLIGHTeNING Lunch
Enlightening Lunch with Brian David Johnson
Affective Computing (or Strange Little Computers That Do Strange Little Things)
As we approach the year 2020 we will have the ability to turn anything into a computer. In the next 10 years, we will pass a point where the majority of computational intelligence will reside not in our devices but in the world around us. But what do we do with all that intelligence?
Brian David Johnson
- June 06, 2015CSPO AZ
World Wide Views Arizona
Global Citizen Consultation on Climate and Energy
100 citizens, selected to represent demographic diversity of Arizona, will join similar citizen groups in three U.S. cities and 80 countries in the world to discuss and express their views on an identical set of questions, designed to reflect policy controversies at the UNFCC negotiations to take place in Paris in December of this year (COP 21).
David Guston, Patricia Reiter, Netra Chhetri, Mahmud Farooque
- April 25, 2015Co-sponsored
Solar Soft Cost Reductions in PV and CSP: Mapping the Opportunities
How could artificial intelligence help reduce the cost of building solar power plants? Leading experts in solar energy, artificial intelligence, and robotics will explore this and other questions at a workshop focused on reducing soft (i.e. non-hardware) costs in the solar energy sector.
- April 24, 2015CSPO DC - New Tools for Science Policy
Societal Aspects of Synthetic Biology
Research Agendas
At this seminar, Guston and Brian will present the initial results of their synthetic biology workshop and sketch out potential research agendas and scholarly and professional infrastructures to support an integrated research program that encourages awareness among all groups, facilitates better and closer collaboration and organization across the disciplines, and opens up possibilities for new research directions.
David Guston, Jennifer Brian