Reports on CTS and COSTED
Attia Ashour
Cairo University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, Giza, Egypt
CTS:
I have attended the last meeting of this Committee, July, 1993, just before the decision of the ICSU Executive Board to stop it.
I stressed in the meeting that IUGG is an interdisciplinary Union and that there is a need to consider how best interdisciplinary science disciplines be best taught, both on school and university levels.
The Committee has been replaced, I believe, by another on Capacity Building. I have no information whether Unions were invited to have representatives on the new Committee.
The meeting was followed by a large one in UNESCO with the title "2000+" in which CTS participated.
I shall be pleased to give a verbal report to the Council in Boulder if needed.
COSTED:
I had no correspondence from COSTED during the last four years except an invitation to participate in a meeting in Ghana, which was mainly concerned with Biology.
The name of the Committee has been changed to COSTED IBN (International Biological Network). This indicates clearly that the Committee which is supposed to help scientists in all disciplines, is now more oriented towards the Biological Sciences.
I think that this point needs to be discussed by IUGG representative to ICSU with the ICSU Executive Board.
I shall be pleased to give a verbal report to the Council in Boulder if needed.
