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

Conference · Mon Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2002

OSTI ID:900618

Porter, Gail

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.

• Research Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE - Office of Energy Research (ER)
• DOE Contract Number: AI02-01ER30313
• OSTI ID: 900618
• Report Number(s): NIST SP991; TRN: US200714%%138
• 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

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
COMMUNICATIONS
INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
PUBLIC INFORMATION
science communication
technology communication
science literacy