Megascience

The international agenda includes: 1) using U.S. leadership in S&T to support foreign policy objectives including global stability and sustainable development; 2) strengthening American S&T in an increasingly interdependent world; 3) using international cooperation in S&T to our international economic goals; and 4) enhancing international cooperation in large-scale and complex science programs (megasciences).

This contribution aims to demonstrate why mycology should be regarded as a megascience: a subject requiring international collaboration to overcome barriers that need to be confronted in the interests of global security and human well-being.

Endeavors that have traditionally been called “megascience projects” have led the way in international science, mainly because the cost of the undertaking was so large, no one nation could afford to do it alone.

This paper is devoted to the study of the basic processes for the implementation of “megascience” projects and to ensure the possibility of their effective implementation using management information systems.