ReDig undersøker hvordanansvaret utføres innen digital forskningspraksis. Prosjektet fokuserer først og fremst på utviklingen innen biovitenskap, og for det andre på nanoteknologi. Det undersøker hvordan bruken av digitalinfrastruktur og verktøy for forskning påvirker transformasjoner i den vitenskapelige kulturen og forskningsetikken. Hoved forskningsteamene er: modellering, design og open science. For eksempel utfordres klassiske viktige vitenskapelige spørsmål som reproduserbarhet og concerns transformeres etter hvert som digitalinfrastruktur muliggjør nye former for kunnskapsdeling og sirkulasjon. Dessuten har det faktum at biologisk informasjon lett kan deles på nettet også muliggjort en flytting av bioteknologi ut av institusjonene i form av biohacking og DIYbiologi. Med digitalisering endres forholdet mellom vitenskap og samfunn på forskjellige nivåer. ReDig studerer betydningen av nåværende teknoepistemiske og etiske transformasjoner for det vitenskapelige samfunnet, beslutningstakere og publikum. Spesielt vurderer den hvordandigitaliseringen av biologi kan forholde seg og integreres med nyere politiske krav til Responsible Researchand Innovation (RRI), spesielt med tanke på "the common good"
ReDig aimed at suggesting improvements for RRI performance withindigitalresearch methods. The project aimed at having an impact on two stakeholder communities. First, scientists in nano and biotechnology, and specially communities whose research is increasingly dependent on the use of software based methods and digitalinfrastructures. We have reached those communities through a number of presentations and individual and group meetings that have enabled room for discussions on how to practice 'good science'. We have also published a paper on a high impact factor journal in the life sciences (PLoS) to reach such communities with informed views on how we think RRI could be better practiced. Second, we have produced a policy report to have an impact on the level of policy making. The report contains recommendations on how to update RRI towards a more suitable version that works indigitalised environments. Finally, the project has very successfully complied with the publication plan.
Inresearch policies, within Norway, Europe and the United States, responsibility is increasingly being requested asanintegrated componentofresearchand innovation activities. In the first instance, responsible researchand innovation should social ch allenges and needs (von Schomberg, 2011, Owen et al. 2012). This project will produce knowledge on how responsibility should be integrated withindigitalresearchpractices. Anincreasing adoption ofdigital tools and infrastructures for research is occur ring within a number of scientific fields. Combined with classic experimental methods, digital software is increasingly used to model and design scientific objects. Software and digital platforms are used for making and matching data as well as to store a nd share them. What can roughly be characterized as a digitalisation ofresearch, is producing changes to the nature of scientific objects and researchpractices, it entails important ethical, legal and social aspects. For instance, issues related to the ownership, accountability and transparency of knowledge are being articulated through claims for open science. Although according to a broad view these developments are not specific to the fields of biotechnology and nanotechnology, a closer view into eac h of these fields brings about interesting specificities and overarching commonalities that this project aims at identifying and analysing. The project will focus on digitalpracticesof design, modelling and data sharing as they are performed in specific projects in those research fields. After analysing these practices, it will turn the focus to responsibilityindigitalresearchand innovation practices by focusing on three themes: a) Open science; b) Controllability; c) Public good.