השוואת שיטות

	Constructive Technology Assessment	Participatory Technology Assessment
תחום	Science Technology Studies	Science Technology Studies
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1995	1995
הוגה השיטה	Arie Rip & Johan Schot (Dutch CTA tradition)	Danish Board of Technology tradition; Simon Joss, John Durant, Leonhard Hennen
סוג	Co-evolutionary technology-shaping process	Deliberative public-participation process
מקור מכונן	Schot, J., & Rip, A. (1997). The past and future of constructive technology assessment. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 54(2-3), 251-268.	Joss, S., & Durant, J. (Eds.). (1995). Public Participation in Science: The Role of Consensus Conferences in Europe. Science Museum. ISBN: 9780901805874
כינויים	CTA, Constructive TA, Co-evolutionary technology assessment	pTA, Public technology assessment, Citizen technology assessment
קשורות	4	4
תקציר	Constructive Technology Assessment (CTA) is an approach to assessing technology that seeks to influence its design and development, not merely to forecast its impacts after the fact. By broadening the design process to feed societal aspects back to engineers and decision-makers early—while the technology is still malleable—CTA aims to manage the co-evolution of technology and society and to soften the Collingridge dilemma, the bind in which a technology's effects are easy to change before they are known and hard to change once they are.	Participatory technology assessment (pTA) involves lay citizens and stakeholders—not only experts—in assessing the social, ethical, and political dimensions of technologies. Through structured deliberative formats such as consensus conferences, citizens' juries, and scenario workshops, ordinary people are informed, allowed to question experts, and helped to form and articulate a considered collective view, which is then fed into public and policy debate. pTA democratises technology assessment, treating the public not as a problem to be managed but as a legitimate voice in technological choices.