Whether the applied technology councils are effective in contributing the input of all levels beneath the senior leadership into the coordination, focus, and content of the science and technology program.
Scientists on national science and technology councils, for example, are unlikely to be sued successfully because their advice is general and nonbinding and because their status as government officials usually confers some legal protection.
The NVTC bills itself as the largest technology council in the nation, representing about 1,000 businesses and organizations.
(And archiving practices in the independent film world run the gamut, from studied preservation to complete inattention, noted Andrew Maltz, director of the academy's science and technology council).
The problem became public, but just barely, last month, when the science and technology council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the results of a yearlong study of digital archiving in the movie business.
"Since the middle of the 20th century, the UK, like many other advanced economies, has employed migrant labour to reduce the ratio between older dependants and workers, which has arisen as child-bearing rates have fallen and people have lived longer," said Harper, who also serves on the government's science and technology council.
"An electronic war has been launched against Iran", Mahmoud Liayi, head of the information technology council at the ministry of industries, told the state-run Iran Daily newspaper.
Despite the documented threat and the technology council's recommendation, Los Angeles' elected officials have yet to establish a human health and safety buffer to shield homes, schools and hospitals from oil extraction.
Now the country's mission is to "design and develop a usable Mexican payload to be included in a moon mission, to conduct experiments on the lunar surface," according to a statement earlier this month from Mexico's science and technology council.
Through digital technologies councils hope to integrate multidisciplinary teams, reduce customer contact, encourage self service and internally enable mobile and flexible working.
Most of ECOSOC's work is performed in functional commissions on topics such as human rights, narcotics, population, social development, statistics, the status of women, and science and technology; the council also oversees regional commissions for Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Western Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
