Dear all
There are occasional calls for more debate in this group - however debate
can be hard to sustain long term.
Over the next six weeks, however, the British Council will be running an
international e-conference exploring some of the major science communication
issues.
The format is simple.
In September and October, Tim Radford (the Guardian), Nigel Poole
(ex-Zeneca), Suzanne McCarthy (HFEA), Frank Burnet (Graphic Science), Brian
Wynne (special adviser to the Jenkin report) and Richard Ayre (Food
Standards Agency) will be lecturing in Slovenia, Russia, Japan, Korea,
Netherlands, France, Germany, Brazil and Australia.
Each Friday, one of the talks will be posted to the e-conference.
Participants will then have a week to respond to the talk and debate the
subject. All submissions are moderated for relevance and length. At the
end of the week a summary of the discussion will be posted - and the full
proceedings will be pulled together at the end of the conference.
You either join as a participant, able to take a full part in the
discussion: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/democraticscience/join.html
Or an observer, receiving just the talks, the weekly summary and the final
report (13 emails):
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/democraticscience-all/join.html
Your formal invitation is below (and sorry if you have already received one
by other means).
Please join us for what promises to be a stimulating, wide-ranging and
global conversation...
David
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Dear colleague
Science is newsworthy, but can scientists be trusted to safeguard society's
interests? How do we make science a more transparent and accountable
process? Should the public drive the science agenda?
We invite you to debate these issues by joining Democratic Science, a
moderated international e-conference. Between September 15 and October 31,
six distinguished speakers will be discussing their thoughts on perceptions
of science, the assessment of risk, the need for regulation, ethical
responsibility, public consultation and consumer protection.
As a participant in the e-conference you will receive written pieces by the
six speakers and be invited to both contribute to and follow the ensuing
debate. You will receive weekly summaries of the debate, as well as a
closing report.
To join go to http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/democraticscience/join.html
If you would prefer, you can sign up to receive the papers, the summaries
and the closing report without participating in the full debate by joining
at http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/democraticscience-all/join.html.
The e-conference is running alongside the British Council's series of public
talks, "Towards a Democratic Science" which will be taking place around the
world - from Slovenia to the Netherlands, from Russia to Japan. For more
information about the talk series, please visit
http://science.britishcouncil.org.
We look forward to hearing your views.
Mick Fealty
River Path Associates for The British Council
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