Peissl, Walter | Austria
1985: degree in business management and sociology at the University of Graz, then consumer policy adviser at the Federal Ministry for Family, Youth and Consumer Protection, and the Society for Consumer Information;
1992: doctoral thesis on employee sociology;
since 1988: employed by the ITA as specialist in telecommunications and methodological aspects of technology assessment; main focus at present: privacy, social impacts of chip cards, telecommunications in the health sector, and participatory TA.
Guest Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society in May 2001.
Selected Publications
Belucci, S., Bütschi, D., van Eijndhoven, J., van Est, R., Ejsted, J., Gloede, F., Hennen, L., Joss, S., Klüver, L., Nentwich, M., Peissl, W., Torgersen, H., 2002, European Participatory Technology Assessment, Participatory Methods in Technology Assessment. University of Westminster Press, in print
Peissl, W., 2002, Surveillance and Security - A Dodgy Relationship, ITA manu:script, ITA-02-02, January
Tichy, G., Peissl, W., 2001, Beeinträchtigung der Privatsphäre in der Informationsgesellschaft, in: Österreichische Juristenkommission (Hg.), Grundrechte in der Informationsgesellschaft, Wien, NWV, 22-48 ITA manu:script, ITA-01-01, Dezember
Peissl, W., 2001, Technology Foresight - more than fashion? International Journal of Technology Management 21 (7/8), 653-660
Peissl, W., 2001, Technology Assessment und Wirtschaft - Länderübersicht Österreich, in: Malanowski, N., Krück, C. P., Zweck, A. (Hg.), Technology Assessment und Wirtschaft - eine Länderübersicht, Frankfurt/NewYork: Campus, 157-180
Guest Lecture at IAS-STS, May 2001: Technology Assessment in Austria - State of the Art and Research Activity of the ITA
The article, which was the result of a lecture given at the IFZ in May 2001 can be found in the Yearbook 2002 of IAS-STS. It provides an brief overview on the development of Technology Assessment in Austria. Basic concepts of TA and different institutional settings are described. Member institutions of the the European Parliamentary Technology Assessment Network (EPTA) are characterized and their different approaches and outcomes analysed. The article closes with the discussion of problems of TA and provides a brief outlook how to overcome some of these problems.