Citizens reports

Giving citizens a voice
TA-SWISS uses a variety of participative methods to qualitatively determine citizens’ opinions. The aim is to keep the decision makers, who tend to listen only to experts, in touch with the opinions of the citizens. In that way the views of laypersons can be made part of the process of assessing technologies. It is also important to take into account the fact that Switzerland is a multilingual country.

Citizens’ reports
The following types of discussion forums are used at TA-SWISS:

PubliForum: The participating citizens draw up their own report with recommendations for Parliament. One example is the PubliForum Research on Human Beings (2003/04)
publifocus: External persons write a report on the debate conducted by citizens in discussion groups, the so-called Focus Groups, on a specific topic. One example is the publifocus on Road Pricing (2004) (in German or French)
PubliTalk: External persons write a report on the discussion round covering a specific topic. An example is the PubliTalk Jugendliche diskutieren Forschung am Menschen (2003/04) (in German, French or Italian)

All citizens’ reports
All reports (PubliForum, publifocus, PubliTalk) are available in:

Last update: 19.11.2007 nbz