Democratic Technologies? - The Nanotechnology Engagement Group (NEG), UK
Involve just launched its latest publication: Democratic Technologies?
The final report of the Nanotechnology Engagement Group (NEG).
The power of technology is clear, but its governance is not.

Who or what makes these world-shaping decisions? And in whose interests are they made? These are the questions posed by a growing number of researchers, NGOs, citizens, politicians and scientists who seek to challenge the way that science and technology is governed and invent new ways to democratise the development of new technologies.

This report documents the progress of six projects that have sought to do just that – by engaging the public in discussions about the governance and development of nanotechnologies.

Beyond Toxicology: Nanotechnology, Ethics, and Known Unknowns - The World's fair, USA
For some reason policymakers and scientists think that "the public" became terrified of toxicological risks from GMOs and thereby "derailed" that technology; and that because nanoparticles have some similarities to modified genes (invisible, easily ingested, overhyped) the public - unless properly mollified - could become terrified and derail all of nanotech.