Science and Technology Community

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INTRODUCTION

It is helpful that the role of science and technology in human affairs be more widely known and better understood, both by decision makers who help determine public infrastructure and by the general public. The cooperative relationship existing between the scientific and technological community and the general public can be extended and deepened into a full partnership. The public can be assisted in communicating their sentiments to the scientific and technological community concerning how science and technology might be better managed to affect their lives in a beneficial way.

OVERVIEW

• Scientific contribution for the highest good of all
• Technological contribution for the highest good of all

SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL

The scientific and technological community and infrastructure makers can implement strategies for sustainable development on the basis of the best available knowledge. Decision makers can provide the framework for rigorous research and for full and open communication of the findings of the scientific and technological community. At the same time, this dialogue would assist the scientific and technological community in developing priorities for research and proposing actions for constructive solutions.

Ideas for those interested in implementation

• Review how individual and local scientific and technological activities could be more responsive to sustainable development needs as part of an overall effort to help support individual and local research and development systems, including through help supporting and widening the membership of individual and local scientific and technological advisory councils, organizations and committees to help ensure that
• Improve and help support programs for disseminating research results of universities and research institutions
• Develop and implement information technologies to enhance the dissemination of information for sustainable development

 TECHNOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL

Scientists and technologists have a special set of responsibilities devoted to the search for knowledge and to protect the biosphere in the context of sustainable development. Increased ethical awareness in environmental and developmental decision-making can help create appropriate priorities for the maintenance and enhancement of life-support systems , and in so doing ensure the functioning of viable natural processes is properly valued by present and future societies. Therefore, supporting the codes of practice and guidelines for the scientific and technological community would increase environmental awareness and contribute to sustainable development.

Ideas for those interested in implementation

• Help support local development of codes of practice and guidelines regarding environmentally sound and sustainable development
• Help support individual and local advisory groups on environmental and developmental ethics, in order to develop a common value framework between the scientific and technological community and society as a whole, and demonstrate continuous dialogue
• Extend education in developmental and environmental ethical issues to integrate such objectives into education curricula and research priorities
• Review and amend relevant individual and local environment and development legal instruments to help demonstrate that appropriate codes of practice and guidelines are incorporated into such regulatory machinery