Science in Society


Scientific and Social Literacy

Mostly Scientists

Mostly Non-Scientists

Scientists have a voice and can use it!!
Pugwash Conferences on Science and Human Affairs  

Union of Concerned Scientists  


Centres for Science in Development
Center for International Development: Science, Technology and Innovation, Harvard

Center for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Columbia University
Institute of Science in Society, UK


Keeping scientists informed
SciDev.Net: News, views and information about science, technology and development
[Sponosored by Nature, Science, Third World Academy of Sciences,
Funded by: Department for International Development UK, International Development Centre, Canada, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency]

Public information, discussions  
Food Safety Network, University of Guelph
WSSD: The Daily Summit (British Council)   
FAO: Biotechnology forum,
28 April-25 May, 2003: e-mail conference "Regulating GMOs in developing and transition countries" 
Online publishing with no barriers to access

BioMed Central "...an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research"

BMC Evolutionary Biology
BMC Ecology  
BMC Directed & Applied Evolution

BMC Plant Biology

The UN System, still alive

FAO: World Food Summit
UNDP: UNDP-GEF
WHO: Genomics and World Health


Science, History, Philosophy
Philosophy and the History of Science    

Books online

Technological Independence -- the Asian Experience, UNU

Knowledge and Diplomacy: Science Advice in the United Nations System NAP, USA. 2002
SciDev.Net comment on NAP report  




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