znanost.org
Society znanost.org is a NGO operating mainly in Croatia. Its main focus is in promoting education, science and knowledge-based values. The word znanost in Croatian means "science".
Notable members
- Robert Skenderović - current president
- Executive board members: Robert Skenderović, Slaven Garaj (vice-president), Ana Bedalov, Damir Kovačić, Bojan Pečnik, Petar Mimica
- Project council: Damir Kovačić, Robert Skenderović, Elaa Mohamad
History
znanost.org was founded in February 2002 by a group of a recent graduates from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Activities during the first year and a half of operation were mostly limited to providing popular science texts. The first major step towards a broader public engagement was the participation in organization of the First Croatian Science Festival for the Croatian national daily newspaper Vjesnik.
[1]. The society was contracted by the organizers (Technical Museum in Zagreb, British Council Croatia and the former Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology, since early 2004 part of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports) to build a web site and help organize media coverage for the event.
Activities
Projects include:
- connect - Croatian professional network of scientists, experts, educators and students
- Nebo na poklon - educational outreach project
- INDECS - Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, a scientific journal
- Decos - Describing Complex Systems, a scientific conference.
A scientific paper Towards quantitative tools for analysing qualitative properties of virtual communities [2] published in INDECS 2(2) contains a simple quantitative analysis of the inner dynamics of znanost.org between March 2003 and January 2004.
See also
- Croatian Interdisciplinary Society
- Nebo na poklon (Presenting the Skies), education project