The institute is broadly interested in looking at ethical, economic, social and legal implications of new and emerging technologies both in hitech and in biotech. Within this broad range of technologies, the institute will have a particular focus on disruptive technologies, including, for example: nanotechnology, 3D printing, autonomous robotics, next generation energy sources, telemedicine, synthetic biology, genetically modified organisms, personalized medicine and next generation genomic sequencing.
About Us
Prof. Dov Greenbaum
Director of the Zvi Meitar Institute
Inbar Carmel
Program Manager
Academic & Research
The policy face intends to provide deliverables to government, NGOs, and corporate offices, providing, for example, short comprehensive summaries on issues associated with particular technologies. The policy face will also be involved in drafting amicus briefs and draft statutes.
Public Policy
The Institute will also include a vibrant academic face wherein we intend to publish and present scholarly papers, books and textbooks. The institute will also collaborate with other similar-minded institutions locally and globally on varied issues within its mandate. And, it will strive to obtain additional outside funding in the form of grants and awards to expand its operations and hire additional postdoctoral fellows.
Zvi Meitar Program
The Zvi Meitar Emerging Technologies Program aims to provide students with a unique opportunity to examine the legal, ethical, psychological, entrepreneurial, economic and social challenges of new and disruptive technologies. The overarching goal of the program is to empower undergraduate students to actively contribute to the public discourse on this issues, with an ultimate purpose of influencing academic scholarship, shaping public policy and even drafting laws and regulations.
Public Outreach
A public face will look toward educating and informing the public on issues relating to new and innovative technologies both through publishing in the lay literature, newspaper opinion pages, and via various forms of social media. Here too we are keen on submitting OpEds in areas of joint interest. Regular events, designed to engage broad audiences of the public at large will also be held.