PCST Network

PCST Network
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The PCST Network seeks to promote new ideas, methods, intellectual and practical questions, and perspectives. It seeks cross-fertilization across professional, cultural, international and disciplinary boundaries. The overall objectives adopted by the PCST Network are:

To foster public communication of science and technology (PCST).
To encourage discussion of practices, methods, ethical issues, policies, conceptual frameworks, economic and social concerns, and other issues related to PCST.
To link practitioners of PCST, researchers who study PCST and scientific communities concerned with PCST.
To link those from different cultures and countries worldwide, in both developed and developing parts of the world, concerned with PCST.
To provide opportunities for meetings, electronic interaction, and collaboration between people interested in PCST.

Started in France 1989
The first PCST conference was arranged in Poitiers, France, in 1989. Since then the PCST Network has met every second year:

and also for a "working symposium" in Beijing in 2005.