The National Forum on Science and Technology Goals

9412417 Hadden这个项目将研究如何扩大参与国家科技政策国家目标的选择和排名。它将组织和赞助一个为期一年的进程，以启动一个关于科学和技术目标的国家论坛，并使之制度化，让美国人口的广泛参与和传统上不参与科学和技术决策的群体的代表，包括非专家公民。该项目将制定一个任务声明、治理结构和一套决策程序，包括如何决定谁将被邀请参加。为了确定、发展和赞助具体的项目，国家论坛必须有一个结构，一套允许有序和公平决策的程序，并清楚地了解如何选择和招募参与者。要回答这些问题，就需要对价值观作出关键性的选择，这些价值观将反映在国家论坛的性质和使命中。今年有三个阶段的工作。第一阶段将根据要回答的任务、结构、参与三个问题，设立3个委员会。这些委员会将由一个“临时管理委员会”的成员组成，其中20名成员已经承诺参与该项目。各委员会将各自制定提案，并提交给所有与会者。临时委员会全体成员将在德克萨斯州奥斯汀举行为期三天的会议，就委员会的建议得出结论。最后阶段将向专业、科学、技术、商业、工会、学术和公共利益团体、政府官员以及科学和技术新闻界传播结果。在这一过程结束时，国家论坛应准备启动一个或多个试验项目。＊＊＊

9412417 Hadden This project will examine ways to expand participation in the selection and ranking of national goals for national science and technology policy. It will organize and sponsor a one year process to initiate and institutionalize a national forum on science and technology goals, with participation from a broad cross-section of the United States population and representation from groups not traditionally part of science and technology policymaking, including nonexpert citizens. This project will develop a mission statement, governing structure, and set of procedures for making decisions, including how decisions will be made about who will be asked to participate. In order to identify, develop and sponsor specific programs, the national forum must have a structure, a set of procedures that allow for orderly and fair decisionmaking and a clear sense of how participants will be chosen and recruited. Answers to these questions entail critical choices about values that will be reflected in the national forum's character and mission. There are three phases of work in this year. The first phase will set up three committees corresponding to the three questions to be answered: mission, structure, and participation. These committees will be made up of people from an "interim governing council," twenty members of which have already committed to the project. The committees will each develop proposals that will be delivered to all participants. The complete interim council will meet for three days in Austin, Texas, to come to conclusions about the committee proposals. The last phase will be dissemination of results to professional, scientific, technical, business, trade union, academic, and public interest groups, government officials, and the scientific and technical press. At the end of this process, the national forum should be ready to start one or more trial programs. ***