International Council for Science : Committee on Data for Science and Technology

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C O D A T A

World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
Past, Present and Future of Research in the Information Society
13-15 November 2005, Corinthia Khamsa Hotel, Tunis

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CODATA Sessions:
Access to Scientific Data and Information: Benefits to Society

Daniel Schaffer - Biography

Daniel Schaffer is the public information officer for the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). He was previously employed as director of communications at the University of Tennessee's Energy, Environment and Resources Center and as a writer and editor for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He has written on science and technology issues both in the developed and developing world for more than 15 years and was the editor-in-chief of Forum, a science policy journal published jointly by the University of Tennessee, TVA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has published scholarly books with Johns Hopkins University Press, Temple University Press and the University of Tennessee Press, and has written and produced television documentaries on science and public health issues that have aired on public television stations across the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University, USA.