ALEX BALCH is a research fellow in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, based at ICOSS, uk MICHIEL BESTERS is a researcher at the Rathenau Institute, The Netherlands DENNIS BROEDERS is coordinator of the Policy, Information and Technology project group at ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands FRANS BROM is head of the department of Technology Assessment of the Rathenau Institute and Professor of Ethics of Technology Assessment at Utrecht University, The Netherlands EVELIEN BROUWER is Assistant Professor of constitutional and administrative law in the Law School of the Utrecht University, The Netherlands HUUB DIJSTELBLOEM is Lecturer in Philosophy of Science at the University of Amsterdam and Senior Researcher at the Scientific Council for Government Policy in The Hague (WRR), The Netherlands ANDREW GEDDES is Chair of the Department of Politics of the University of Sheffield, UK ALBERT MEIJER is Associate Professor of public administration and policy sciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands IRMA VAN DER PLOEG is Professor of Infonomics and New Media at Zuyd University, Maastricht/Heerlen, The Netherlands ISOLDE SPRENKELS is a PhD student and junior researcher at the Infonomics and New Media Research Centre at Zuyd University, The Netherlands