CAPCIT: The Advisory Board of the Parliament of Catalonia for Science and Technology Authors Fernando Domínguez García CAPCIT, Parliament of Catalonia, Barcelona Abstract Throughout the world, parliaments and other legislative bodies represent societies in which information technologies and scientific knowledge are advancing at a frantic pace. Yet, most legislators lack the knowledge or training required to understand and deal with the full implications of the technological and scientific revolution. Following the trend of Parliamentary Technology Assessment (PTA) in the United States and Europe over the past two decades, the Advisory Board of the Parliament of Catalonia for Science and Technology (CAPCIT) was established in 2008. Despite the institution’s short history, CAPCIT represents the first and most serious attempt in Spain of bringing together the main scientific and technological sources in a common forum at the service of policy-making.Keywords: Parliamentary Technology Assessment (PTA) ∙ Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) ∙ European Parliamentary Technology Assessment (EPTA) ∙ Advisory Board of the Parliament of Catalonia for Science and Technology (CAPCIT Downloads PDF Issue Vol. 8 No. 2 (2012) Section Parliamentary Technology Assessment License This work is subject, unless the contrary is indicated in the text, the photographs or in other illustrations, to an Attribution —Non-Commercial— No Derivative Works 3.0 Creative Commons License, the full text of which can be consulted at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/. You are free to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work provided that the author is credited and reuse of the material is restricted to non-commercial purposes only and that no derivative works are created from the original material.
