Teiichi Sato

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Delegation of Japan to UNESCO)

World Conference on Science – Science for the twenty-first century – A New Commitment (1999 Budapest)

Common understanding

Proclamation on four issues:
– Science for knowledge; knowledge for progress
– Science for peace
– Science for development
– Science in society and science for society

1. Two aspects of science
    – Usefulness of science in society
    – Capacity of society for utilizing science

2. The backgrounds
    – Understandability of the rapidly progressing cutting edges
    – Lack or ignorance of foresights for harmful outcomes
    – Complicated systems
    – The phases of failures (The influence of miss judgment)

3. Some policy issues
    – The role of the researchers and policymaking
    – Enriching social understandability
    – Science education
    – University – the center of the learning

4. Professor Yosikawa’s paradox
    – Toward the knowledge society