Democratic Values and the National Forum on Science and Technology Goals

9312150查普曼由洛克菲勒家庭协会资助的补充工作的补充，这个规划项目将开始制定一个过程，使各种各样的公共组织可以参与民主对话的目标，公共资助的科学和工程研究与发展和建立一个新的国家论坛的科学和技术目标。 建立论坛的想法源于卡内基科学、技术和政府委员会主持下的一个专家小组最近提出的一项建议。 美国国家科学院正在研究这个想法。 该项目将通过重点关注如何在国家论坛等机构内优化多样性、代表性、公平、机会和合理异议等民主价值观的问题，为这些努力做出贡献。 这一项目涉及一些关心参与科学和技术决策的公共组织的代表，参与规划基础广泛的会议和发起这种对话的有关努力。 在这一规划期间，主办组织和其他几个组织的代表将聚集一批对全国论坛感兴趣的不同群体。 这些人将于1993年秋季举行会议，计划举行一次更大的后续会议和一个进程，通过这个进程，可以听取不同的宪法者对全国论坛的性质、宪章和结构的意见。 规划会议将确定邀请参加较大会议的人员和组织，并拟订会议的内容和结构，规划小组将审议和选择公众成功参与审议和解决科学和技术问题的案例研究，供较大会议使用。 最终计划将在国家科学基金会伦理和价值观研究计划的报告中提出，并在公共和私人资金来源的建议中提出。 ***

9312150 Chapman Supplemented by complementary work funded by Rockefeller Family Associates, this planning project will begin to develop a process whereby a wide variety of public organizations can participate in a democratic dialogue about the aims of publicly funded scientific and engineering research and development and the establishment of a new National Forum on Science and Technology Goals. The idea for a Forum grew out of a recent proposal from an expert panel under the auspices of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government. The National Academy of Sciences is now pursuing this idea. This project will contribute to these efforts, by focusing on the question of how to optimize democratic values such as diversity, representation, equity, access, and reasoned dissent within an institution such as the National Forum. This project involves representatives from a number of public organizations that are concerned about participation in science and technology policy making, in planning for broad-based meetings and related efforts to initiate that dialogue. In this planning period, the sponsoring organization and representatives from several others will assemble a diverse group of people interested in the National Forum. These people will meet in fall, 1993, to plan a larger, follow-on meeting and a process through which diverse constitutencies can be heard on the character, charter, and configuration of the National Forum. The planning meeting will identify persons and organizations to invite to the larger meeting and develop the content and structure for it. The planning group will consider and select case studies of successful public participation in deliberations about and resolution of science and technology issues to use at the larger meeting. The final plan will be presented in a report to the Ethics and Values Studies program of the National Science Foundation, and in proposals to public and private funding sources. ***