Report of Tokyo Node
The Planning Committee Meeting
March 14 and 15, 2002
Washington DC, USA
Shinji Matsumoto
JSFS/CSP Japan
Renewal of Tokyo Node
• There have been two Nodes in Japan, Tokyo Node and
JSFS Node.
• Mr. Jerome Glenn, the director of the project,
recommended to combine them and establish new Tokyo
Node.
• Structure of new Tokyo Node
Node Chair Shinji Matsumoto (JSFS)
Node Members JSFS Working Group
Members in old Tokyo Node
Recent Activities
• Workshop “Ethical Issues of Science and
Technology for the Next Millennium”
21 September, 2001
( Under the auspice of the UNU/IAS and JSFS)
• Interviews on S&T Management
6 Persons
November and December, 2001
Workshop “Ethical Issues of Science and
Technology for the new Millennium”
• Date
• Venue
21 September, 2001
UNU/IAS
AGENDA
• Opening Address A.H. Zakri (Director-General, IAS)
Yujiro Hayashi (Chairman, JSFS)
• Keynote Address Junnosuke Kishida (Emeritus Chairman, The Japan
Research Institute)
• Speakers
Biotechnology Kazuhisa Sekimizu (Univ. of Tokyo)
Robotics
Ken Tomiyama (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.)
Media
Hiroyuki Yoshii (Tokyo Keizai Univ.)
International Edson Kenji Kondo (IAS)
Discussed Issues
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Social Software for S&T
Technology Assessment Systems
Information Disclosure
Production of Human Parts
Incentive of S&T Researchers
Systems for people to be ethical
Precautionary Principle
Global Economy and Community Economy
Interviews on S&T Management
Interviewees
• Tetsuo Saito Congressman, Physics
• Susumu Toda Director-General of National Lab.,
Aeronautics
• Koji Omi Minister of S&T
• Hiroo Inokuchi Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Tokyo,
Chemistry
• Ken Tomiyama Prof. , Aoyama Gakuin Univ.,
Robotics
• Kazuhisa Sekimizu Prof., Univ. of Tokyo,
Biotechnology
Important Comments (1)
• R&D freedom is very important.
• But, some kinds of R&D and application should
be controlled especially in human life science.
• Adequate S&T assessment systems are needed.
• International and national open discussion systems
on S&T management should be established.
• International standards to control risk from S&T
should be established by international
organizations.
Important Comments (2)
• S&T Managers cannot understand sufficiently
about advanced S&T.
• But, some experts can watch many kinds of S&T
at the same time.
• Ethics issues are education issues.
• Global benefit is more important than regional
benefit.
• Communication between S&T people and non
S&T people.
• Informal organizations for S&T assessment are
sometimes practical.
Plan of This Year
• Contribution to the Surveys in the
Millennium Project
• 2nd Workshop of “Ethical issues of Science
& Technology for the new Millennium”