David, UNESCO is very active in this domain. They have a lot of programs on education, science, and culture; see, e.g. http://www.unesco.org/science/. I have come across a couple of recent relevant articles that might intererest you: 1. The Economist, Feb 3, 2007: editorial p. 13 and article p. 75 on scientific research and social and economic benefit in Africa 2. Editorial by R. K. Pachauri, "Sustainable Well-Being", in Science, Vol. 315, No. 5814, 16 Feb 2007, p. 913 on science and technology and economic progress. Best regards, Martin ________________________________ From: ogf20pc-bounces@ogf.org [mailto:ogf20pc-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of David Wallom Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:22 AM To: ogf20pc@ogf.org Subject: [ogf20pc] Public outreach of e-Science Hello All, Bearing in mind dropping participation in Computer Science as well as other maths and science subjects within schools and universities that appear to be a nearly global problem as well as public uncertainty with various scientific areas, I am convinced that we all need to work much harder at the problem of Public Engagement in Science. I would like to have a session at OGF 20 that has two lines of discussion. Firstly with a collection of world leading science projects that have had a public engagement component we should be ensuring that lessons are being learned from their point of view. The second component is from the professionals in Science communication to ensure that their experiences are fed back into the research communities. I would also like to think about in future having as part of the community track a program open to members of the general public, including local young people with a plenary, workshop and possible participatory session? I think that, apart from standards, a great service that OGF could do for research since it should be attracting both the CS base but also novel interdisciplinary research projects into the community sessions that can really provoke public interest. So please could all members of the PC please either contact directly, or pass their contact details onto me, those people either within their own communities who are very active in this area or funding agencies that make a PES component part of any grant etc (I have heard that NSF cam be like this?). That way we can have a healthy participation in this session and try to build something in future meetings. I have heard from dave Berry about a project called EPIC so if I could get further details on this it would be very much appeciated. Regards David -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. David Wallom Technical Manager Oxford e-Research Centre University of Oxford 7 Keble Road Oxford OX1 3QG Tel : +44 (0)1865 610601 email: david.wallom@oerc.ox.ac.uk +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------ Forwarded Message From: David Wallom <david.wallom@oerc.ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:19:37 +0000 To: Myles Allen <allen@atm.ox.ac.uk>, Simon Cox <s.j.cox@soton.ac.uk>, Morgane Artacho <martacho@nesc.ac.uk>, <j.redfearn@jisc.ac.uk>, <coleman@nesc.ac.uk> Conversation: Public outreach of e-Science Subject: FW: Public outreach of e-Science Hello All, As below I have been asked by Dave Berry to consider facilitating setup of a session on "Public Outreach within e-Science". As some of you are actively engaged in such an activity, whilst others have used public outreach very successfully it was thought that this could be a very good group to get together and knock out the possible bare bones of a session. Dave B had some ideas below and I would be very interested in looking at methods for public engagement and measuring their success. This could also involve the members of HAS-RG to actually do some research whilst participating in our session. Please come back with your thoughts. Regards David -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. David Wallom Technical Manager Oxford e-Research Centre University of Oxford 7 Keble Road Oxford OX1 3QG Tel : +44 (0)1865 610601 email: david.wallom@oerc.ox.ac.uk +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------ Forwarded Message From: Dave Berry <daveb@nesc.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:59:43 -0000 To: David Wallom <david.wallom@oerc.ox.ac.uk> Cc: Morgane Artacho <martacho@nesc.ac.uk> Conversation: Public outreach of e-Science Subject: RE: Public outreach of e-Science Hi David, This session would be in the morning on Tuesday May 8th. I'd like to introduce Morgane Artacho, who is project officer for the ICEAGE project. As outreach is also part of the responsibility of the NeSC training team, Morgane may be able to contribute to this session. In discussion today several names were mentioned. We could also involve Iain Coleman, who is our science writer, and Judy Redfearn, who is the science writer for JISC & EPSRC. Malcolm is interested, if his schedule doesn't clash. Malcolm mentioned a USA project called EPIC which is about taking e-science into schools. I agree that the outcomes are important to establish. I was thinking of the session as a sharing of experiences and "best practice" in (i) how to explain the science in a way that attracts and engages people without overhyping it (because obviously we don't do hype in the grid world), (ii) how to engage the media in this (e.g. CP.net's experiences) and (iii) how to include schools in that outreach. Those aren't outcomes, so we need to decide whether we want a report, an ongoing activity, or something else. Either way, we need someone who would actually want to do this. We also need someone who will lead the session. I should perhaps make clear at this point that I'm only proposing this in my role as PC chair. I'm not planning to lead the activity. Best wishes, Dave. -----Original Message----- From: David Wallom [mailto:david.wallom@oerc.ox.ac.uk] Sent: 10 March 2007 08:36 To: Dave Berry Subject: Re: Public outreach of e-Science Hi Dave, What day and session would be involved? I have had back from CP.net that they actually have a public understanding person employed on the project who happens to actually be based in Manchester.... So we only need to know time and place and we're sorted with them. I want to lock down what outcome we want rfom the meeting to make sure we get GEODISE (Simon C) on beard. David On 8/3/07 12:23, "Dave Berry" <daveb@nesc.ac.uk> wrote: Hi David, Have you had any response from the ClimatePrediction.net and GENIE folks about a possible session on e-science and the public? BTW, the e-Science keynote is still up in the air. I'm chasing a couple of possible speakers who are more closely linked with OGF. Best wishes, Dave Berry Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039 -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. David Wallom Technical Manager Oxford e-Research Centre University of Oxford 7 Keble Road Oxford OX1 3QG Tel : +44 (0)1865 610601 email: david.wallom@oerc.ox.ac.uk +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------ End of Forwarded Message ------ End of Forwarded Message