The AAAS 2012 Annual Meeting: flattening the world: building a global knowledge society
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/07419051211277922 |
| Pages | 1-7 |
| Date | 03 August 2012 |
| Published date | 03 August 2012 |
| Author | Danielle Mihram,G. Arthur Mihram |
| Subject Matter | Library & information science |
About 7,000 scientists, engineers,
policymakers, educators, and journalists
from approximately 50 nations met at
the Vancouver Convention Centre, in
Vancouver, Canada (16-20 February,
2012) for the 178th AAAS Annual
Meeting to explore a broad range of
recent discoveriesand anticipated global
challenges.
The theme, “Flattening the world:
building a global knowledge society”,
focusedonboththecomplex,
interconnected challenges of the
twenty-first century and on pathways to
global solutions through international,
multidisciplinary efforts. The
“Flattening” alludes to New York
Times’s Foreign Affairs columnist,
Thomas L. Friedman’s 2005 book,
The World is Flat: A Brief History of
the 21st Century (Farrar, Strauss and
Giroux; expanded in 2006 and 2007).
The number of plenary addresses
(4), topical lectures (9), and a range of
14-16 concurrent symposia (on any
morning or afternoon) remained quite
equivalent to those of recent years.
Highlights of the program may be
accessed at: www.aaas.org/meetings/
2012/#flatten
Audio recordings of most symposia,
lectures, and seminars are available for
purchase either on a CD or as a MP3
download from the Audio Visual
Education Network: www.aven.com
Six Symposia were of interest. Our
report follows below.
Symposium (1). “Successful
interdisciplinary collaboration: insights
from practice and theory”
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2012/
webprogram/Session4447.html
In this Symposium speakers focused
on grand challenges in science and
society which demand collaboration
among researchers from multiple
disciplines as well as nonacademic
partners. These interdisciplinary
collaborations are experimenting with
new modes of knowledge production
and transfer, data sharing, and reward
systems within a variety of institutional
and cultural settings.
For example, James P. Collins
(Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ)
notedinhispresentation(“The
implications of transformations in
scientific practice”) that discoveries in
the life sciences, along with biology’s
integration into engineering as well as
the physical and social sciences, make it
clear that thinking about the goals of
science (and how interdisciplinary,
collaborative approaches can help to
achieve them) is an important challenge
to the standard independent investigator
model of scientific practice.
Library Hi Tech News
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The AAAS 2012 Annual
Meeting: flattening the world:
building a global knowledge
society
Danielle Mihram and G. Arthur Mihram
CONTENTS
Conference report
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flattening the world: building a global
knowledge society ........... 1
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