Scientific Dissemination in Colombia, study case Institución Universitaria Pascual Bravo

Abstract

Scientific outreach is defined as all those activities that disseminate and spread the scientific knowledge to the society with the primary aim that most of the population can assimilate and achieve scientific findings, theories, and new fields of knowledge. The effectivity of this outreach depends on the way to spread it being oral, written, or graphically, according to the knowledge area that involves. For example, graphic dissemination has been essential since old times in scientific areas as biology, medicine, or physics. In case of oral dissemination of science, it includes from speeches, conferences, and seminars, which has increased its discussion and dissemination power thanks to new technologies as live virtual conferences with online videoconferences and chats, as well as the subsequent publication online by written media on open access scientific journals, proceedings or digital books.