Welcome to the OSTP Blog:
[Via OSTP Blog]
Welcome to the OSTP blog, a place where you can learn about and have real input into the policymaking process as it relates to science and technology. The art and science of crafting sound government policy has long depended on public input, but new technologies now allow the process of public input to be multidimensional and dynamic. Among other things, that means members of the public can start to have a conversation about policy. Please take responsible advantage of this new aspect of democracy—in this first instance by reading the President’s memorandum
on scientific integrity and considering how the goals in that document might best be met. Give the topic some thought (we’ve provided a simple question alongside each of the six initial scientific integrity sub-issues, to help get the conversation going). Then share your ideas, your concerns, and your hopes.
Rick Weiss
OSTP Director of Strategic Communications
The Office of Science and Technology Policy has started a blog! It even states that this is a way for the public to have a conversation, that new technologies allow this conversation “to be multidimensional and dynamic.”
I’m not quite sure what a multidimensional conversation in (more than 3-D? Are we talking about some sort of 12-dimensional speech? Wow!) but it sure sounds wonderful.
Anyway, the President released a memo in March about Scientific Integrity and the OSTP is beginning its public input section. You can read about the details in a factsheet.
The OSTP has provided an area on the blog for people to discuss each of the 6 subsections of the memo: the metrics used to determine a science candidate’s knowledge, credentials, experience, and integrity; the processes used to maintain scientific integrity; the organizational structures needed for assuring scientific reliability; the best ways for maximizing public release of scientific information; determining when scientific integrity has been compromised; and, the best ways to make sure the information is reliable.
I know I will have lots to say. Now is your chance.
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