Saturday July 31st 2010
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Activities:
The Danish Board of Technology’s collection of topics for the year 2010 A Clear Message from World Citizens to COP15 Politicians 4 citizens' meetings debating the future of the healthcaresystem Demand Driven Technoloical Innovation Environmentally friendly building in practice - what are we waiting for? STOA workshop on Food Issues and Human Health Project Description: World Wide Views On Global Warming Privacy and Security Technology (PRISE) EPTA - Genetically modified plants and food STOA project - The future of European long distance transport The Policy Challenges of Electronic Privacy Tomorrow’s Fuels for the Transport Sector: A Danish Perspective How are we going to use the increased knowledge on the human brain? |
World Wide Views on Global Warming
- Global Citizen Consultation on Climate Policy It will create awareness about the importance of climate policy globally, nationally, locally and individually. And it will set a pathbreaking precedent by demonstrating that ordinary people merit, and can have, a voice within global political processes. The Project WWViews is structured as an international alliance of individuals and institutions, including government agencies, NGOs and universities. Alliance members that have become National Partners have devoted personnel to preparing national WWViews deliberations. Other members are doing media work, fundraising, communicate results to policy-makers, serve as project ambassadors, or write support letters. The WWViews Alliance has expanded to 45 partners in 39 nations. During a single day, the 26th. September, the WWViews partners will host national deliberations in the 39 countries. Within each participating nation roughly 100 ordinary citizens, chosen to represent their region’s demographic diversity, will gather to engage in a structured dialogue aimed at answering an identical set of questions. Citizens will vote on questions, and propose and prioritize action recommendations, within five thematic areas: Climate Policy Goals, Mitigation Strategies, Adaptation Strategies, Technology Research and Innovation, and Financing. Results from the deliberations around the world will be shared and publicized immediately via the World Wide Web, building excitement, drama and media interest throughout the day. The Method The WWViews method is a hybrid based on several decades of innovation by the Danish Board of Technology (DBT – the Danish Parliament’s Office of Technology Assessment), and by other WWViews Alliance members, in engaging citizens in political decision-making processes. The WWViews citizen deliberations will be informed by well-balanced briefing material. Scientific experts, political decisionmakers, and a diverse range of other stakeholders will contribute to formulating the questions and briefing packets, which will be distributed centrally from the DBT and translated into local languages. The Rationale More familiar methods of citizen consultation, such as public opinion surveys, provide a snapshot into the views of a relatively uninformed, inattentive populace. Such data are, for example, useful to candidates seeking electoral office. WWViews will generate knowledge uniquely valuable to public officials required, as are the COP15 delegates, to decide what is in the public interest. Through deliberation, citizens who are not representing stakeholder groups learn what competing expert and stakeholder groups think, test their ideas against others holding different views, and then reach a considered judgment that integrates all of this new information with their own values, worldview and life experience. Deliberative results provide a crucial reality test against which decision-makers can, for example, compare the views of competing stakeholder groups, each of whom claims to represent the public interest. Introducing an informed citizen voice into global policymaking is, moreover, highly cost-effective in comparison with the magnitude of the issues under consideration. Impacts and Societal Value-Added WWViews will produce impact within two principal domains: Climate · WWViews has good access to the COP15 organization, because the COP15 host – Danish Minister of Climate, Ms. Connie Hedegaard – supports WWViews; and we are seeking additional direct relationships with the COP15 process. Disseminating project results to their respective national delegates directly and via the media will be the core responsibility of National Partners during the two months prior to COP15. We will also convey WWViews results by publicizing them visually in the cityscape of Copenhagen. The ambition is that a good portion of COP15 delegates will have heard about the main conclusions from the WWViews deliberations. · Media coverage – ideally including coverage by international newspapers, television and Internet – will increase worldwide decision-maker, stakeholder and popular awareness on climate issues. · WWViews will also generate a valuable data set for research into citizen opinions on global warming. 2. Democracy · WWViews is the first-ever global citizen participation exercise. Citizen consultations have been tested and proven extremely valuable at a national level through two decades. During the past five years, citizen deliberations have also been implemented successfully at the European level. WWViews expands the scale of citizen consultation to the global level and attaches the consultation directly to a global policy-making process. Further democratic benefits will include: · Demonstrating and establishing public participation in nations around the world. · Creating an enduring network of institutions and trained project managers able to conduct future WWViews projects on other issues. · Conducting a cross-cultural experiment in complex, Internet-mediated cooperative relations between institutions. National Partners The next page lists 45 National Partners from 39 countries that have joined the WWViews Alliance. Total estimated project budget, including partner costs (assuming 40 countries), is between US$ 3.0 and 3.5 million. Contacts on Funding Director Mr. Lars Klüver. The Danish Board of Technology, LK@Tekno.dk, +45-4011 0182 Project Manager Mr. Lars H. Hansen Danish Cultural Institute, LH@Tekno.dk +45-4028 9655 Advisor Dr. Richard Sclove (USA) Richard@Sclove.org +1-413-658-4867 For further information on WWViews in general Project manager Mr. Bjørn Bedsted The Danish Board of Technology, BB@Tekno.dk +45-2174 4079 National Partners in the WWViews Alliance as of August 2008 – list is expanding weekly Australia Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney (Director Dr. Chris Riedy – www.isf.uts.edu.au) Austria Institute for Technology Assessment (ITA), Austrian Academy of Science (Ms. Ulrike Bechtold – www.oeaw.ac.at) Belgium (Flanders) • Flemish Parliamentary Technology Assessment (Director Mr. Robby Berloznik – www.viwta.be) Bolivia Lidema (Ms. Jenny Gruenberger – www.lidema.org.bo) Bulgaria ARC Fund (Dr. Zoya Damianova – www.arc.online.bg) Burkina Faso • Coalition: Association pour la Recherche et la Formation an Agro-Ecologie + Association Faune et Développement au Burkina (Mr. Mathieu Savadogo and Mr. Alexis Kaboré) Canada • Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary (Ms. Edna Einseidel – www.comcul.ucalgary.ca) Costa Rica FLACSO Costa Rica (Mr. Jorge Mora – www.flacso.or.cr) Denmark Danish Board of Technology (Director Mr. Lars Klüver – www.tekno.dk) Finland National Consumer Research Centre Finland (Dr. Mikko Rask – www.ncrc.fi) France Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie (Mr. Roland Schaer – www.cite-sciences.fr) Germany Institute of Technology Assessment, Research Center Karlsruhe (Dr. Leonhard Hennen – www.itas.fzk.de) India Center for Studies in Science Policy (Associate Professor Dr. Pranav N. Desai ww.stssociety.com/StsSociety/cssp/faculty.htm) Italy Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna (Assistant Professor Rodolfo Lewanski – www.dosp.unibo.it) Japan Centre for the Study of Communication-Design, Osaka University (Prof. Kobayashi Tadashi – www.cscd.osaka-u.ac.jp) Korean Republic Coalition: Center for Democracy in Science & Technology, Kookmin University + Korean Natl. Commission for UNESCO + Korea Green Foundation (Prof. Hwan-Suk Kim – www.greenfund.org) Netherlands The Rathenau Institute (Dr. Jurgen Ganzevles – www.rathenau.nl) Niger • Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local (Aghali Abdelkader – www.lasdel.net) Norway Norwegian Board of Technology (Director Mr. Tore Tennøe – www.teknologiradet.no) Senegal • Innovations, Environnement et Développement en Afrique (Directeur Bara Gueye – www.iedafrique.org) South Africa Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (Chief dir. mr. Rasigan Maharajh – www.ieri.org.za) Sweden Nordregio (Director Mr. Richard Langlais – www.nordregio.se) Switzerland TA-Swiss – Center for Technology Assessment (Director Dr. Sergio Bellucci – www.ta-swiss.ch) Taiwan Taiwan Thinktank (Chief of Department, Ms. Jin Liao – www.taiwanthinktank.org) Tanzania The Foundation for Civil Society (Executive Director John Ulanga www.thefoundation-tz.org) United Kingdom Involve (Dr. Edward Andersson – www.involve.org.uk) USA – Multiple sites: • CSPO at Arizona State University (Prof. Sylvain Gallais – www.cspo.org) • Dept. of Environmental Health, Boston University (Prof. Madeleine Scammell – spu.bu.edu/eh) • Colorado School of Mines (Prof. Carl Mitcham, Humanities Program Director – www.mines.edu) • Georgia Institute of Technology (Prof. Susan Cozzens, Associate Dean for Research Ivan Allen College – www.gatech.edu) • Coalition: The Loka Institute (www.loka.org) + Pomona College (Prof. Richard Worthington, Chair, Politics Dept. – pomonacollege.net) • North Carolina State University (Prof. Patrick Hamlett – www.ncsu.edu) • University of Wisconsin-Madison (Prof. Daniel Kleinman, Chair, Dept. of Rural Sociology – www.wisc.edu) Uruguay Simurg, Isabel Bortagaray WWViews c/o The Danish Board of Technology Teknologirådet Antonigade 4 DK-1106 Copenhagen K Denmark Tel +45 3332 0503 Fax +45 3391 0509 wwviews@wwviews.org www.wwviews.org More detailed information about the project can be found in the projectdescription below or by contacting Bjørn Bedsted, projectmanager e: bb@tekno.dk p: +45 33 45 53 68 Lars Klüver, director e: lk@tekno.dk p: +45 33 45 53 52 Søren Gram, projectmanager e: sg@tekno.dk p: +45 33 32 05 03 Oliver Bo Schmidt, projectassistant e: obs@tekno.dk p: +45 33 32 53 90 The Danish Board of Technology The Board was brought into being in order to disseminate knowledge about technology, its possibilities and its effects on people, on society and on the environment. The Board is supposed to promote the ongoing discussion about technology, to evaluate technology and to advise the Danish Parliament (the Folketing) and other governmental bodies in matters pertaining to technology. The Danish Board of Technology is an independent body established by the Danish Parliament (the Folketing) in 1995 and posses a long experience in methods to assess public opinion about political priorities and possible courses of action. The Danish Cultural Institute The Danish Cultural Institute promotes cultural exchanges and informs about Denmark and supports projects that aim at long-term cooperation between foreign and Danish cultural institutions, artists and other professionals. The activities are coordinated through our head office in Copenhagen and branch offices in Benelux, China, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and the United Kingdom - and our global network. Last update: 22-09-2009 
Project description for World Wide Views on Global Warming The WWViews Alliance structure
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· Is global citizen consultation on climate change · Is national citizen meetings around the globe, connected and communicated on the Internet · Will precede the UN COP15 conference on climate change in Copenhagen, November 2009 · Is initiated and coordinated by The Danish Board of Technology and The Danish Cultural Institute · Is national citizen meetings coordinated by partners More about World Wide Views on Global Warming: The Method The Partners The Sponsors Please find also the projectdiscription in English, French and Spanish at the projectsite WWViews WWViews projectmanagers at the Copenhagen City Hall reception, 24 March, 2009.
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