NSEC: Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University

亚利桑那州立大学（CNS-ASU）的社会纳米技术中心有助于确保“纳米技术的进步为所有美国人带来生活质量的改善”（PL 108-153）。 该中心的愿景是，与NSE科学家密切合作并结合公众参与，对纳米科学与工程（NSE）的社会方面进行研究，将改善有关NSE的审议和决策。 CNS-ASU通过创建广泛的机构网络、制定连贯的研究计划、促进创新的教育机会以及参与有意义的参与和外展活动（特别是针对代表性不足的社区）来建立解决NSE社会影响的能力。 它的目标无非是规划一条通往组织知识生产的新途径，开发和测试预期治理的新流程，以满足新兴的承诺和NSE的挑战。CNS-ASU加入亚利桑那州立大学与威斯康星州大学麦迪逊分校，格鲁吉亚理工学院，北卡罗来纳州州立大学，罗格斯大学，新泽西的州立大学，和其他大学，个人和团体在学术和私营部门，以及国际纳米技术和社会网络（www.nanoandsociety.org），亚利桑那州立大学正在发展。 在亚利桑那州立大学，该项目的两个指导组织是科学，政策和成果联盟（www.cspo.org），它为科学和技术政策奖学金和参与提供了一个机构，以及生物设计研究所（www.biodesign.org），它提供了NSE研究的基础和跨学科合作的测试平台。 CNS-ASU将实施一项名为“实时技术评估”（RTTA）的研究和参与计划，其中包括四种调查方法：绘制NSE企业的研究动态及其预期的社会成果;监测公众和研究人员对NSE不断变化的价值观;让研究人员和各种公众参与审议和参与性论坛;反思性地评估其活动产生的信息和经验对NSE研究人员在其网络中所持价值观和所做选择的影响。 通过RTTA，CNS-ASU将探索这样一个假设，即NSE创新的轨迹可以通过引入更大的自反性能力（即可以扩大有意识选择范围的社会学习）来转向社会理想的目标，远离不理想的目标。 它围绕两个广泛的NSE在社会的主题组织研究：自由，隐私和安全;和人类身份，增强和生物学。该中心的教育和培训计划包括本科生，研究生和博士后水平的创新，鼓励NSE学生和社会科学和人文科学学生之间的跨学科机会。 与西班牙裔研究中心（www.asu.edu/clas/hrc）和普适计算中心（http：//www.example.com）等经过验证的项目合作，确保从代表性不足的群体中招募和留住学生。cubic.asu.edu 与科学，数学，工程和技术教育研究中心（http：cresmet.asu.edu）合作，CNS-ASU为高中教师提供NSE-社会培训模块。CNS-ASU作为科学和社会界面的“边界组织”设计，提供了一种新的方式来组织研究的操作模型，通过提高情境意识，可以信号出现的问题，实现预期的治理，并引导NSE知识和创新的轨迹走向社会理想的结果，远离不受欢迎的人。在追求这一最广泛的影响，CNS-ASU培训跨学科研究人员的干部从事NSE的复杂的社会影响;催化更多样化，全面的，和冒险的各种各样的公众之间的互动可能感兴趣的和受NSE影响;和创造新的认识水平NSE在社会决策者之间，从消费者到科学家到高层决策者。

The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University (CNS-ASU) helps ensure "that advances in nanotechnology bring about improvements in the quality of life for all Americans" (PL 108-153). The Center's vision is that research into the societal aspects of nanoscale science and engineering (NSE), carried out in close collaboration with NSE scientists and combined with public engagement, will improve deliberation and decision making about NSE. CNS-ASU builds the capacity to address the societal implications of NSE by creating a broad institutional network, instituting a coherent research program, promoting innovative educational opportunities, and engaging in meaningful participation and outreach activities, especially with under-represented communities. Its goal is nothing less than charting a path toward new ways of organizing the production of knowledge and developing and testing new processes of anticipatory governance to meet the emerging promises and challenges of NSE.CNS-ASU joins Arizona State University with the University of Wisconsin - Madison, the Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and other universities, individuals, and groups in the academic and private sector, as well as the International Nanotechnology and Society Network (www.nanoandsociety.org) that ASU is developing. At ASU, the project's two guiding organizations are the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (www.cspo.org), which provides an institutional home for science and technology policy scholarship and engagement, and the Biodesign Institute (www.biodesign.org), which provides a substrate of NSE research and a test bed for interdisciplinary collaboration. CNS-ASU will implement a program of research and engagement called "real-time technology assessment" (RTTA), which consists of four methods of inquiry: mapping the research dynamics of the NSE enterprise and its anticipated societal outcomes; monitoring the changing values of the public and of researchers regarding NSE; engaging researchers and various publics in deliberative and participatory forums; and reflexively assessing the impact of the information and experiences generated by its activities on the values held and choices made by the NSE researchers in its network. Through RTTA, CNS-ASU will probe the hypothesis that trajectories of NSE innovation can be steered toward socially desirable goals, and away from undesirable ones, by introducing a greater capacity for reflexiveness - that is, social learning that can expand the range of conscious choice - into knowledge-producing institutions. It organizes the research around two broad NSE-in-society themes: freedom, privacy, and security; and human identity, enhancement, and biology.The Center's educational and training plan includes innovations at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral level that encourage interdisciplinary opportunities among NSE students and social science and humanities students. Partnerships with proven programs, including the Hispanic Research Center (www.asu.edu/clas/hrc) and the Center for Ubiquitous Computing (http://cubic.asu.edu), ensure recruitment and retention of students from under-represented groups. A collaboration with the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (http://cresmet.asu.edu), CNS-ASU generates training modules for high school teachers in NSE-in-society.Designed as a "boundary organization" at the interface of science and society, CNS-ASU provides an operational model for a new way to organize research through improved contextual awareness, which can signal emerging problems, enable anticipatory governance, and guide trajectories of NSE knowledge and innovation toward socially desirable outcomes, and away from undesirable ones. In pursuit of this broadest impact, CNS-ASU trains a cadre of interdisciplinary researchers to engage the complex societal implications of NSE; catalyzes more diverse, comprehensive, and adventurous interactions among a wide variety of publics potentially interested in and affected by NSE; and creates new levels of awareness about NSE-in-society among decision makers ranging from consumers to scientists to high level policy makers.