Making citizens governable? The Crick Report as governmental technology

Health impacts of large-scale floods: governmental decision-making and resilience of the citizens.

During the 15th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine in Amsterdam, May 2007 (15WCDEM), a targeted agenda program (TAP) about the public health aspects of large-scale floods was organized. The main goal of the TAP was the establishment of an overview of issues that would help governmental decision-makers to develop policies to increase the resilience of the citizens during floods. D...

Enabling Crowd Participation in Governmental Decision-making

Democratic governments constantly need to make sense of their citizens’ needs to make appropriate decisions that reflect the overall wishes and needs of the population. However, except for mandatory voting scenarios, a low rate of citizen participation in government decisions through democratic processes is an aspect that defies democracy itself. Brazil’s participatory budget policy emphasizes ...

Making Nano Matter: an inquiry into the discourses of governable science

The paper examines science-policy conversations mediated by social science in attempts to govern, or set up terms for, scientific research. The production of social science research accounts about science faces challenges in the domains of emerging technosciences, such as nano. Constructing notions of success and failure, participants in science actively engage in the interpretation of policy n...

Discriminating Citizens: Making Judgements About Science

Knowledge Management as Technology: Making Knowledge Manageable

Knowledge and technology are celebrated as the twin sources of competitive advantage in modern economies. To make knowledge and technology available to deliberate organizational action (to turn such sources into resources, as it were) is a current task for every manager – from the corporate top to the project level. But what are these resources that managers attempt to manage? And how are they ...