TECHNOLOGY-ASSESSMENT IN THE DANISH SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXT

Technology Assessment (TA) in the Danish context is focused on public debate, social experiments and dialogue/scenario workshops. The early controversy between a part and a more holistically oriented assessment has been resolved and both the trade unions and industry have been ac tively enrolled on the TA-scene. The major discourse has been one of p roactive technology assessment, while technology itself has been 'blac k boxed'. This is today changing as social experiments have provided a n arena for the social shaping of information technology.