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Science as a Global Public Good.nowledge has been amongst the most powerful of public goods. It has been 3 K the inspiration, stimulus and agent upon which most human material, social and personal progress has been built. Access to knowledge, and to the education systems that seek to increase the stock of knowledge of individuals, and thereby,
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- Global Challenges
- Societal Implications of Scientific and Technological Advances
- Adapting The Practices of Science
The global environment and human sustainability
Global temperatures continue to rise at an accelerated rate and global CO2 concentrations are at record levels even as emissions have temporarily fallen as consequence of the COVID-driven economic slowdown. It is likely that we will breach the target to limit the global temperature rise to no more than 1.5oabove pre-industrial levels, agreed at the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris. Although global targets have been agreed at a political level, the necessary coordinated actio...
Science and geopolitics
Addressing the global crises of the modern era, of the environment, of widening inequalities and poverty, would be best served within a geopolitical frame where there is broad consensus and the ability to take coordinated action. Instead, we have social, political and ideological polarisation, characterised by diverging certainties that are inimical to the sceptical spirit of science, recently compounded by the re-emergence of an ancient evil, the unprovoked attack by one state on another, an...
Major scientific discoveries and technological innovations invariably have implications for society, often through unanticipated uses to which society puts them. The acts of discovery and development carry with them the responsibility to explore, monitor, warn and seek to mitigate potential harms by those most likely to understand what these might ...
It is an imperative for science that it adapts to changing circumstances, including changing priorities as new horizons of discovery open up, with new technology-enabled ways of working and changes in the social setting within which science operates.
Knowledge as a Public Good. Adam Smith laid the basis for the concept of public goods in The Wealth of Nations in 1776 when he stated: The third and last duty of the sovereign is that of erecting and maintaining those public institutions and those public works, which, though they may be in the highest degree advantageous to a great society, are, however, of such a nature, that the profit could ...
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Oct 1, 2021 · If you would like to assist the ISC in translating this important document into other languages to promote our vision to advance science as a global public good, please contact [email protected] Acknowledgements: The ISC would like to thank the The Science Council of Japan, the ISC Latin American and Caribbean regional focal point in Colombia, and Natalia Tarasova for their assistance with the ...
science as a global public good. Scientific knowledge, data and expertise must be universally accessible and its benefits universally shared. The practice of science must be inclusive and equitable, also in opportunities for scientific education and capacity development. The mission of the International Science Council is to be the global voice for
Oct 1, 2021 · Science as a global public good ... ripe for the science community to take an active role in governance of the evolving science system if a new era of open science is to serve the global public ...
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Scientic knowledge as a public good The vision of the International Science Council is of sci - ence as a global public good (Boulton 2021). To an econo-mist, public goods have a special meaning, that they are free at the point of use. They have two essential properties: non-rivalrous consumption—the consumption by one
