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Table 1. U.S. Delegation to the World Conference on Science, June 26 - July 1, 1999, Budapest, Hungary
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U.S. DELEGATION: Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of U.S. GOVERNMENT STAFF: Jasemine Chambers, Senior Policy
Sciences; Paul Berg, Robert W. and Vivian Cahill Professor in Cancer Analyst, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the
Research and Director, Beckman Center, Stanford University School of President; Gerald Hane, Acting Assistant Director for International
Medicine; M.R.C. Greenwood, Chancellor, University of California, Affairs, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the
Santa Cruz; Neal Lane, Assistant to the President for Science and President; Brooke Holmes, Director, Office of Science and Technology
Technology, Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Cooperation, Department of State; Ray Wanner, International
Technology Policy; Leon Lederman, Director Emeritus, Fermi National Organization Affairs, Department of State; David E. Schindel, Head,
Accelerator Laboratory; Jane Lubchenco, Distinguished Professor and National Science Foundation Europe Office.
Wayne and Gladys Valley, Professor of Marine Biology, Department of
Zoology, Oregon State University; Shirley Malcom, Director of the NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL STAFF: John Boright, Executive
AAAS Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs, Director, Office of International Affairs, National Research Council; John
American Association for the Advancement of Science; F. Sherwood Campbell, ProgramDirector, InterAcademy Programs, National Research
Rowland, Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Sciences and Donald Council; Ken Fulton, Executive Director, National Academy of Sciences;
Bren Research Professor of Chemistry and Earth System Science, and Wendy D. White, Director, Division of International Organizations
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine; Maxine and Academy Cooperation, Office of International Affairs, National
Singer. President, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Michael Research Council.
Southwick., Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International
Organization Affairs, Department of State; and Keith Winstein, Student,
IMSA.
Planning and Agenda. The scientific community played a major role in WCS
planning. In 1997 UNESCO set up a 509-member International Scientific Advisory
Board, including the President of ICSU, "to give working scientists a greater say
in...reform of the way the agency supports science" and to "...help prepare the agenda for
a UN world science conference...."? The American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) participated in WCS planning. In December 1997, to dispel "uncertainty
about the...[conference, a meeting was]...convened at the initiative of the U.S. National
Research Council and involving...a dozen American science NGOs and foreign
embassies...to hear the Assistant-Director-general for Science...and the President of
ICSU."8
Before the conference, UNESCO prepared two documents that delegates would be
asked to approve-the Draft World Declaration on Science and the Use of Scientific
Knowledge and the Draft Framework for Action. They incorporated the views of a
background report prepared by ICSU,9 reflecting the notions that S&T should be supported
as beneficial to society, but that "science is facing difficulties of confidence and
investment, as well as problems of an ethical nature," and that scientists from the
developing nations have less access to science than those from the developed nations.10
UNESCO established "hot links" to the conference documents; to national, regional
(Africa, Arab States, Asia and Pacific, Europe, North America, Latin America and
Caribbean), and interest group meetings; to satellite events for interest groups and
students; and to secondary analysis."1
7Declan Butler, "The 's' in UNESCO Seeks Out a New Role," Nature, January 23, 1997, 286.
8"Not Just Another General Conference: A Look to the Future?" Americans for the Universality of
UNESCO 14, February 1998, 10; Philip W. Hemily, "Challenges for International Scientific and
Engineering Cooperation," Presented at the AAAS Consortium of Affiliates for International Programs
Annual Meeting held in Seattle in conjunction with the 1997 AAAS Annual Meeting on February 16, 1997.
9"ICSU Paper Seeks More International Collaboration," Nature, March 25, 1999.
IoUNESCO/ICSU, "First Announcement," Science for the 21St Century.
11David Dickson, "Physics Workshop Calls for New 'Contract' With Society," Nature, April 15, 1999.
There were unofficial preparatory meetings by the Leadership for Environment and Development group,
by women's groups ("Draft Declaration 'Pays Insufficient Attention to Women's Issues," Nature, May 13,
1999), and by the "Pontifical Academy of Sciences: Science for Survival and Sustainable Development,"
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