Report on Transit of Venus Forum
OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER’S SCIENCE ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, KNZM
FRSNZ FMedSci FRS
Chief Science
Advisor
Media Release
23
August 2012
Sir Peter Gluckman & the
Prime Minister respond to Transit of Venus
Forum
On 7 and 8 June 2012, over 250 New Zealanders including leaders from government agencies, local bodies, science organisations, academia, business, iwi and NGOs, as well as successful locally and internationally based Kiwi entrepreneurs and many young people, gathered in Gisborne for a Forum to discuss how New Zealand could better use science to advance economically, environmentally and socially.
Sir Peter Gluckman has prepared a report,
Science and New Zealand’s Future: Reflections from the
Transit of Venus Forum, which summarises the
Forum.
The report will be presented to the Prime
Minister, Rt Hon John Key at a function organised by the
Royal Society of New Zealand on Thursday 23 August
2012.
The report is available here on our website.
ENDS
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