"On January 26th and 27th, 2009, the Sciences and Democracy World Forum will be held in Belém (Brazil). Unions and researchers’associations, social and civic movements, and NGOs are going to discuss the stakes of the democratization of sciences and technologies such as the place of scientific research in a sustainable world, the status of common goods of knowledge, the democratization of scientific and technological choices, the democratic control of the impact of BANG technologies (Bits Atoms Neurons and Genes) in real life, the ethics and the social responsibility of researchers..." -- via Sciences and Democracy World Forum