The National Ethics Committee of Science and Technology was established to encourage the advancement of ethical science and technology for sustainable development.
Name in original language
คณะกรรมการส่งเสริมจริยธรรมด้านวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Initiative overview
To promote ethics as a guiding framework for reducing social problems that may arise from the use of scientific and technological tools in moving societies towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the balance between national economic development, social development, and environmental protection for sustainable development. Thailand re-established the National Ethics Committee of Science and Technology in 2016 to be a formal mechanism to encourage the advancement of ethical science and technology for sustainable development.The initiative has the following objectives:- To promote inclusive public debate on the ethics of science and technology.- To promote the development of inclusive policies and programmes to reduce and mitigate the risks of harm which may arise from new technologies.- To create and strengthen networks of stakeholders in ethics of science and technology, including the public sector, consumers, and educational institutions.- To emphasize the importance of ethics in addressing potential challenges raised by STI developments in the era of converging technologies, including in the following areas: genome and other new life sciences technologies; robotics, big data, Internet of Things, and AI technologies; and geoengineering and other climate change technologies.- To involve young people in general, and young scientists and researchers in particular - especially girls and young women - in the reflection on ethics of science and technology, in order to nurture new generations of citizens and scientists that are fully aware of these issues.- To ensure a balance between national economic development, social development, and environmental protection for sustainable development.
Name of responsible organisation (in English)
Office of National Higher Education Science Research and Innovation Policy Council
