Comparative Table of Parliamentary TA Institutions
SWITZERLAND - SWISS FOUNDATION FOR TECHNOLOGY ASSESMENT
Topics
In the past few years TA-SWISS has focused on
the following subjects:
Biotechnology and medicine:
- Robots in the social sector
- Human enhancement
- Personalized medicine
Mobility, energy, climate:
- Deep geothermal energy
- Biomass fuel – second generation electromobility
Information society:
- Localisation technologies
- Flexible new working world
- Media and their power shaping opinions
- Mooc
Nanotechnologies:
- Nanofood
- Nano and the environment
- publifocus Nanotechnology
Social and cultural TA:
- Indicators – emergence and use in politics
As of 2017 TA-SWISS is treating or initializing
the following topics:
- Quantified Self
- Social Freezing
- Genome Editing
- Blockchain
- Civil drones
- Sharing
Economy
TA-SWISS is also actively involved
in international projects such as »Parliaments an civil society in technology
assessment« (PACITA) and »surveillance, privacy and security« (SurPRISE), a
large scale participatory assessment of criteria and factors determining
acceptability and acceptance of security technologies in Europe.
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