Unesco and the International Council on Sciences jointly sponsored a “World Conference for Science” last year, which took place in Budapest from June 26th to July 1st. The ambition was to define priorities for the twenty-first century.
Dominique Chouchan gives a brief out-look on the summit and some of its highlights: the drastic North-South imbalance, the privatization of research and its consequent conversion to ends that are sometimes quite remote from the most fundamental human needs.
Quelle science pour le XXIe siècle ?
This article is published in Futuribles journal no.245, septembre 1999
