Science in Government Workshops

Making science count in government

Science is an essential component of policy-making in most areas of government, but the scientific community does not always understand its role in this process.

Workshops without Walls: Broadening Access to Science around the World

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Institute (NAI) conducted two "Workshops Without Walls" during 2010 that enabled global scientific exchange--with no travel required. The second of these was on the topic "Molecular Paleontology and Resurrection: Rewinding the Tape of Life." Scientists from diverse disciplines and locations around the world were joined throug...

Design Workshops: Social Science and the Development of New Technologies

Design Workshops: social science and the development of new technologies The following notes collect together some of the issues raised by the participants at a series of meetings recently held to discuss the relationship between work in the social sciences and systems design. In particular, these meetings were concerned with the longer term development of work such as that carried out by the '...

Asbestos panelists accuse government of misusing science.

Science and Technology Evaluation Practices in the Government of Canada

The science and technology (S&T) community in the Canadian federal government is responding to the same pressures as other communities in governments around the world to produce better information for taxpayers on programme achievements. At the heart of this response are a number of organisations, including the Canadian Parliament, the Auditor General, the Treasury Board, and numerous departmen...