ABSTRACT
When the first large-scale international conferences of science communication practitioners, educators and researchers took place in the early 1990s, they were very largely restricted to western Europe and North America. But the PCST (Public Communication of Science and Technology) series of conferences now attracts more than 600 participants from over 60 countries in all continents; proposals of contributions to the 2012 conference came from over 50 countries. The World Congress of Science Journalists (700-plus participants from 73 countries in 2013) and the professional conferences of science museums and centres attract similar numbers and distributions of participants.
