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Austrian Academy of Sciences
Department: Institute of Technology Assessment
Street: Strohgasse 45
Postal code: 1030
City: Vienna
Country: Austria
Contact: aich@oeaw.ac.at
Homepage:http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ita
Short name: ITA
Description:
The Austrian Academy of Sciences (http://www.oeaw.ac.at) is Austria’s leading extra-university academic research institution with activities in a variety of disciplines both in the sciences and the humanities. Its Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) (http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ita/) devotes itself to inter-disciplinary scientific research on trends and options of technological change and their societal impacts. Results both contribute to scientific publications and serve, in particular, to advice decision-makers in public policy. A long-standing research focus in ITA’s research programme is the field of eGovernance which first concentrated on eGovernment and has evolved towards a focus on eParticipation.
ITA’s contributors to the work in DEMO-net comprise Georg Aichholzer as the team leader, Doris Allhutter (since January 2008), Stefan Strauss (since September 2008), Roman Winkler (until January 2008) and Florian Saurwein (until July 2008). The research perspective is informed by ideas of Constructive Technology Assessment, with an interest in supporting and shaping design and implementation projects in a process in which actors (stakeholders) from various sectors interact within specific institutional contexts and structures. This suggests iterative assessments along with the design, development, implementation and use of a technology, in interaction with developers and stakeholders. A process type of technology assessment intends to allow for social learning through feeding knowledge from assessments into adaptation and intervention with the goal of achieving more beneficial effects for society. This makes design and impacts of eParticipation a core subject of ITA’s research.
In DEMO-net ITA has concentrated in its collaborative research mainly on design criteria for eParticipation tools and on evaluation and impact frameworks for eParticipation. It has also supported and collaborated with eParticipation practitioners and stakeholders: e.g. acting as member and contributor to strategic task groups such as the Working Group on eDemocracy & eParticipation at the Federal Chancellery in Austria, or the Council of Europe’s Ad hoc Committee on eDemocracy, and as co-organiser of the eParticipation workshop for the Special Interest Group Community Organisations in Prague. ITA has also engaged in activities addressing the wider public on eParticipation through contributions on DEMO-net in an ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) radio broadcast and the „DemoLAB“ life and media event in Vienna (within the Austrian government initiative “entscheidend-bist-du”) involving the Federal Minister for Science and Research in discussion with young people on eDemocracy.
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Completed projects:
- Access to and Ownership of Public Sector Information
- Europeans have a Say: Online Debates and Consultations in the EU
ePart2011 - Deadline extended to 14 April 2011
