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Title: Communicating the Future: Best Practices for Communication of Science and Technology to the Public

Abstract

To advance the state of the art in science and technology communication to the public a conference was held March 6-8, 2002 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD. This report of the conference proceedings includes a summary statement by the conference steering committee, transcripts or other text summarizing the remarks of conference speakers, and abstracts for 48 "best practice" communications programs selected by the steering committee through an open competition and a formal peer review process. Additional information about the 48 best practice programs is available on the archival conference Web site at www.nist.gov/bestpractices.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE - Office of Energy Research (ER)
OSTI Identifier:
900618
Report Number(s):
NIST SP991
TRN: US200714%%138
DOE Contract Number:  
AI02-01ER30313
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Communicating the Future: Best Practices for Communication of Science and Technology to the Public, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, March 6-8, 2002
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; COMMUNICATIONS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PUBLIC INFORMATION; science communication; technology communication; science literacy

Citation Formats

Porter, Gail. Communicating the Future: Best Practices for Communication of Science and Technology to the Public. United States: N. p., 2002. Web.
Porter, Gail. Communicating the Future: Best Practices for Communication of Science and Technology to the Public. United States.
Porter, Gail. 2002. "Communicating the Future: Best Practices for Communication of Science and Technology to the Public". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/900618.
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year = {Mon Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2002},
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