Democratic Values and the National Forum on Science and Technology Goals

9312150 Chapman在洛克菲勒家族协会资助的补充工作的补充下，这个计划项目将开始发展一个过程，在这个过程中，各种各样的公共组织可以参与关于公共资助的科学和工程研究与发展的目标的民主对话，并建立一个新的国家科学和技术目标论坛。举办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（National Academy of Sciences）目前正在研究这一想法。本项目将通过关注如何在国家论坛这样的机构内优化民主价值观，如多样性、代表性、公平、准入和合理的异议，为这些努力做出贡献。这个项目有一些公共组织的代表参加，这些组织关心参与科学和技术政策的制定、规划基础广泛的会议和发起对话的有关努力。在这一规划期间，主办组织和其他几个组织的代表将召集对国家论坛感兴趣的各种各样的人。这些人将于1993年秋天开会，计划举行一次更大的后续会议和一个程序，通过这个程序可以听取不同选民对国家论坛的性质、章程和结构的意见。计划会议将确定邀请参加大型会议的人员和组织，并为其制定内容和结构。规划小组将考虑和选择公众成功参与科学和技术问题的讨论和解决的案例研究，以便在更大的会议上使用。最终计划将在提交给美国国家科学基金会伦理与价值研究项目的报告中，以及向公共和私人资金来源提交的提案中提出。* * *

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. ***