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  • News
    From the unpredictable and the possible futures in TA
    15.11.2017
    An increasing orientation of technology assessment (TA) and adjacent fields toward future socio-technological developments is leading scholars to examine, assess and adapt different approaches of futu
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    30th ITA dossier published
    27.11.2017
    The Blockchain, the technique behind the Bitcoins is the subject of the 30th ITA dossier published these days. Five years ago, in January 2013, the ITA published the first dossier on Facebook and Co.
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    Astrid Mager accepted into "Young Academy"
    03.05.2018
    Since 2012, Mager works as a postdoctoral researcher at the ITA. Her particular interests are internet technologies and socio-political developments. Her research, rooted in science and technology stu
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    18th Annual Conference questions objectivity
    27.06.2018
    The 18th annual conference of the ITA, which took place on 11 June at the Austrian Academy of Science in Vienna, looked at the challenge of normativity in technology assessment. While keynote speaker
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    The ITA will continue its research for the European Parliament
    27.06.2018
    The STOA panel of the European Parliament will continue to include expert opionions on technology assessment in its decision-making process. The STOA panel (Science and Technology Options Assessment)
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    Halftime 2018
    28.06.2018
    The framework agreement to advise the Austrian Parliament was launched in the middle of last year. The best occasion for the ITA team not only to deal with policy advice, but also to question their ow
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    Social bots - manipulation on social media
    07.07.2018
    Many comments under a Tweet or a Facebook post are not real. They are written by social bots - computer software that is able to create content on certain topics automatically. This software is also u
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    From AI to Google - Reporting TA
    31.10.2018
    2016 to 2018 was a busy time for tech and innovation journalists. The ITA helped to stir public debates about data-mining with its studies for its long-term cooperation partner, the Austrian Chamber o
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    Mobile phone location data as a gold mine
    22.11.2018
    Our mobile phone enables us to track our movement profiles. In addition, the network operators can locate us almost precisely. Science and trade benefit from this. Walter Peissl from ITA was commissio
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    Sustainability and nanotechnologies
    04.12.2018
    For over a decade now ITA researchers are looking into risks and opportunities surrounding nanotechnologies within the NanoTrust project. This year's NanoTrust conference was dedicated to the topic Ad