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1 Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs Co-Chairs Summary for the High Level Political Forum Advance unedited version, 22 June 2016 I) Introduction Pursuant to General Assembly Resolution A/RES/70/1, on 6 and 7 June 2016, the President of the Economic and Social Council, H.E. Oh Joon, convened the first annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs. As a component of the technology facilitation mechanism (TFM), the Forum is a venue to discuss STI cooperation around thematic areas for the implementation of the SDGs, congregating all relevant stakeholders to actively contribute in their area of expertise. The Forum provides a venue for facilitating interaction, matchmaking and the establishment of networks between relevant stakeholders and multi- stakeholder partnerships in order to identify and examine technology needs and gaps, including on scientific cooperation, innovation and capacity building, and also in order to help facilitate development, transfer and dissemination of relevant technologies for the SDGs. H.E. Macharia Kamau, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kenya to the United Nations, and Dr. Vaughan Turekian, the Science and Technology Adviser to the US Secretary of State, co-chaired the forum. The meeting was prepared by the UN Interagency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs, supported by 10 representatives from civil society, the private sector and the scientific community. The President of the General assemble, H.E. Mogens Lykketoft, and the Secretary-General, H.E. Ban Ki-moon, made statements at the opening of the forum. The forum was well attended, with more than 600 participants representing 81 governments and more than 350 scientists, innovators, technology specialists, entrepreneurs and civil society representatives. The forum presented including innovative seating arrangements and interactive sessions that provided for adequate time for discussion among all stakeholders. As per its mandate, the forum experimented with ways to promote networking and matchmaking, including online discussions, an exhibition and side-events. The present summary is for transmission to the high-level political forum on sustainable development, in the context of the follow-up and review of the implementation of the post 2015 development Agenda. II) Highlights of the discussions at the forum Mobilizing science, technology and innovation for the SDGs The Agenda 2030 and its SDGs, are disruptive. They imply a radical departure from business-as-usual. In the coming 15 years, the global community will have the important task to take full advantage of science, technology and innovation (STI) for sustainable development. Science, technology and innovation are central for advancing the Agenda 2030 and all of its SDGs. They will need to respond to the needs and should be conceived as means to achieving SDGs, not as ends in themselves. Not every problem has a high-tech solution; and not all technological change is conducive to sustainable development by itself. Going forward, it will be critical to assess how technology can be mobilized to 1
2 provide solutions to our biggest challenges. In this respect, various sources of knowledge, including indigenous knowledge, should be considered. All this is likely to require new ways to approach the science-policy interface. The current technological revolution impacts all disciplines, industries and the world s economy. Rapid advances in ICTs, energy technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology and neuro-technology, and others, will affect all sectors of the economy, including manufacturing, construction, and transportation. Taking advantage of these technologies to advance social and economic inclusion, as well as to promote environmental sustainability and peace, will call for a transformation of societies. New technologies will emerge, while currently nascent ones will be commercialized. In looking at the role of STI, it is necessary to look beyond the next 15 years, as the transformations that are needed have longer time scales. The Technology Facilitation Mechanism (TFM) should mobilise STI solutions for the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs, in order to achieve transformative change of livelihoods across the world. In this context, the STI Forum needs to continue to work in an operational and practical mode. Inclusive technology for leaving no one behind The imperative of the 2030 Agenda is to leave no one behind. This imperative should underpin the way we think about STI. The focus should be on how social needs can drive and transform STI a shift from the dominant model of STI being 'applied to' social problems. This entails new ways of looking at the STI-society interface, new kinds of social expertise to be associated with STI activities, institutionalised forms of community and civil society participation, and, overall, new kinds of STI policy and practice. STI capabilities are not evenly distributed across countries. Lack of adequate technological infrastructure has held back many developing countries. For instance, in many developing countries, Internet access is still limited. It is important to promote the development and use of information and communication technology (ICT), particularly in LDCs, LLDCs, and SIDS. Technological divides exist for vulnerable groups such as women, indigenous populations and people with disabilities. There is still a gap between those that can scale up technologies (e.g. large corporations) and those that produce innovations that serve the poor. Effective implementation of the SDGs will require identifying and addressing major knowledge gaps across different domains, disciplines and regions of the world. Technology change is not neutral. For example, it can favour labour or capital. Technology change is by essence disruptive and, in the short term, creates winners and losers. While disruptive technologies will be critical for a transformation towards sustainable development, their benefits may disproportionally go to those in the countries that innovate, or to a small fraction of the population. Going forward, it will be essential to ensure that the vulnerable and marginalized are not left behind in this process and share the benefits and knowledge acquired. For example, efforts are needed to enhance skills and social protection for the labor force, as jobs are threatened by the digital revolution. Small and midsize companies need to be able to participate in the digital revolution, and local innovation and entrepreneurship systems need to be able to fully to participate in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Enabling access to technologies will be a critical element of a strategy to fully mobilize the potential of STI for the SDGs. Technological advances should benefit everyone, not just the few. Ensuring the 2
3 inclusive participation of citizens in innovation and entrepreneurship is essential, especially among under-represented groups, e.g. women. Technological tools, if adequately provided to communities and people, can help them develop solutions that reflect their own priorities. Technology should aim to make communities more cohesive, rather than generate social disruptions. Research on cutting-edge, disruptive technologies should be accompanied by consideration of how to adapt existing technologies to make them cheaper and more accessible to the poor ( frugal innovation ), or repurposing existing technology for new situations ( hybrid innovation ). Attention should also be paid to the contribution to the SDGs of technologies in the middle of the spectrum between low-tech, grass roots technologies and high-tech; those technologies often are under IP protection. Striking the right balance between hard and soft technologies Efforts should focus not only on developing and deploying highly advanced and efficient hard technologies, but also on supporting soft or social technologies. Social technologies are critical for changing mindsets, attitudes and behaviours. Better understanding the determinants of adoption of technologies by people and communities is important in this regard, for example, the importance of hygiene for health outcomes. It is also important to take into account the resistance of professional communities to adopt new or innovative approaches. Social technologies are also critical to reach those left behind, in addition to public policies and social and community participation. For example, in the health sector, instituting a national vaccination day or finding practical ways to bring the right medication to people who need it in time may be as important as research for new vaccines. In order to work, technologies have to be adapted to local contexts and culture. The youth can help translate technologies into local context and language, particularly in marginalized communities. The concept of technology readiness and associated models to evaluate readiness can help assess the potential of technologies in different environments, as on-site experimentation is rarely possible. Concepts of readiness should fully incorporate ethical and cultural dimensions. Technology in isolation has limited transformative impact. Providing the right incentives and empowering communities is important for leveraging technologies, as illustrated by many examples featured in the Forum. In the case of food waste, an example presented during the forum emphasized that, beyond the use of straightforward technology to match producers of food waste with demand for food, in order for the solution to work, it had been necessary to work on the incentives faced by firms (e.g. helping firms take advantages of tax deductions from donating food). Strengthening STI capacity, STI literacy and human skills People are a nation s greatest natural resource. Actions and policies that strengthen STI and human capacity building in every country are needed to create knowledge-based, innovative societies that utilize scientific evidence to help inform policy and inspire science-based solutions. Enhancing science awareness in the general population is important to create culture of innovation in society. There is a need to proactively foster the next generation of researchers and scientists and foster citizens contribution towards scientific discovery. Youth participants highlighted a number of challenges that need to be addressed to effectively bringing more young people into STI and sustainable development. Learning how to learn is critical. It is important to create conducive environments for active learning, which evaluate students beyond their 3
4 grades and their classrooms, inspire and facilitate early access to science, technology and innovation, and take young innovators seriously. Schools and other learning environments should aim at educating creative problem solvers and critical thinkers, and be responsive to gender and other social markers to create a level playing field, in particular for both boys and girls. Formal education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) need to be supported and its reach widened, in order to build STI literacy among youth. Out-of-school environments are also important, and innovative curricula that incorporate creativity, collaboration, and problem solving skills building, which are often not a focus of formal curricula, but are critical to powering innovative mindsets and creating the partnerships necessary to mobilize talent and resources to tackle development challenges. New technologies can help educate children who have no or inadequate access to school, and promote literacy. Democratizing access to STI, including access to computer science that teaches young people coding, would stimulate millions of innovators around the world. Governments may need to redesign science systems so that they stimulate research that addresses problems of relevance to sustainable development. This needs to be done in a way that preserves the integrity of scientists and the scientific process. Changes in educational systems and curriculum delivery can be considered as part of strengthening enabling environments to support STI development. Enhancing STI policy coherence STI policy coherence needs to be advanced at all levels, in order to accelerate technology transfer, technology diffusion and innovation in a manner that is commensurate with the SDG ambition. Coherence must also be achieved between STI policies in general and those focused on supporting Agenda In this endeavour, Governments will need to proactively collaborate and innovate together with scientists, experts, the private sector, communities, civil society and users of technologies. Achieving all SDGs together will require integrated assessment tools to find desirable pathways that resolve trade-offs and maximize synergies. It will require robust legal environments that promote innovation. These involve not only STI policy, but also trade policy, IP protection, and other key areas. It is important to put in place country-specific IPR policies that make sense for all involved. One example highlighted in this regard was the new IPR policy of the Government of India. The benefits of encouraging open data and open innovation were emphasized, in order to share data and improve access to research. Other examples discussed at the forum included identifying emerging STI issues, supporting education and research among stakeholders on the IP regime, providing facilities in universities for all students to develop entrepreneurship efforts, building infrastructure to ensure that youth and others are able to engage and interact with policy and community leaders, and examining Internet protocols to harmonize them. Coherent policies should lead to coordinated approaches to enhance partnerships and proactively involve the private sector, which is already working in low cost scalable technologies or the SDGs. Policies could encourage grassroots solutions connecting innovative people with technologies and finance. Policies must be put in place to support innovators operating outside formal institutions and structures, for example those who are out of school and are innovating to meet local community needs. Coherent policies must lead to adequate and diverse funding of science, technology and innovation, in order to plant the seeds for innovative research. Indeed, funding agencies and ministries set the agenda for what they want their scientists to pursue. Countless examples of successful NGOs and companies have emerged out of government seed funding. A balance need to be found between funding for 4
5 disruptive and high performance technologies on the one hand, and inclusive innovation that focuses on the needs of the poor on the other hand. The balance will differ between countries and between private and public sectors. The SDGs themselves reflect the need for both types of innovation. STI action plans, technology roadmaps STI policies need to do a better job of linking to and tackling development challenges. Flexible STI action plans and technology roadmaps at national and global levels are needed to support SDG achievement. They could be a means to unite all interested stakeholders, including financiers, to work toward common goals and to benefit from periodic scientific analysis. They require leadership and need to be adequately-resourced. Whole of economy approaches will be needed. Innovation ecosystems have to function effectively, need to be economically sustainable, and have to provide shared value. For example, Mauritius has made major strides in defining a strategy for a transition to an ocean-based economy, based on precise identification of the required economic activities (including shipping, aquaculture, seaweed industry, tourism, and new energy and water technologies), underlying technology developments, and social requirements. Design of STI action plans should be inclusive and involve all stakeholders from the beginning. Participatory technology assessment and prospective analysis (e.g impacts of technologies on employment) could be useful. There is a role for foresight and scanning exercises going forward, including for examining technologies that are currently risky and unproven. The project the world in 2050 was mentioned in this context. Creating robust science advisory ecosystems at all levels Science and technology needs to work with society in the co-design and co-production of solutionsoriented knowledge, in a process of social innovation. In this endeavour, scientists, decision makers, policy analysts, the private sector, and citizens need to closely work together. Every society can benefit from strengthening its science-policy interface and creating a science advisory ecosystem, whereby its scientific and technological community can provide input and advice on public policy issues. The creation of robust science advisory ecosystems at all levels could help societies to inclusively leverage their scientific and technological communities to provide high quality, independent and credible scientific and technological insights. Science advisory systems are needed globally and nationally to assess progress on Agenda 2030 and its SDGs and identify gaps in policy and science. National experiences with creating science advisory ecosystems were shared. The Japanese government recently created the position of science advisor to the foreign minister. China described major science-policy efforts that aim to build social responsibility of scientists and a societal culture of innovation and experimentation. The Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology for Innovation in Neglected Diseases emphasized the importance of social and financial innovation. Using ICT tools, forums, and platforms to support STI In order to achieve the SDGs, we need a paradigm shift on how science interfaces with technology. The Internet is transformative and provides a model and platform for all technologies. ICT tools, forums, and platforms could be more effectively used to learn from each other, encourage citizen driven science and ultimately serve as a platform for socialising all other technologies. Information technology based platforms (including social media and mobile broadband) can be used for sharing knowledge, information, experience and advice on relevant policies, actions, partnerships, 5
6 technologies, and research and development outcomes. In this context, technology infrastructure could be considered as a public good. ICTs can also help to connect people, innovators, entrepreneurs, financiers, and funding agencies in a way that was not possible a few years ago, improving the prospects for collaboration and partnerships to connect innovation supply and demand. ICT platforms can play a critical role in making governments aware of innovators and innovations in their own countries. By providing business intelligence on what innovations are funded by whom, they can help reduce duplication of work among development agencies. The Global Innovation Exchange was presented as an example of such platform. The online platform foreseen as a component of the TFM may play a role in this regard in the future. Many technology developments are possible only because they are based on successful application of basic scientific knowledge, which has taken decades to create. Standards and formats need to be deployed to improve global access to basic scientific knowledge and simplify technology use. For example, the data on basic technological innovations is currently scattered in scientific publications accessible from academic journals in PDF form, instead of being accessible in standardized databases. Creating modern databases of knowledge and basic research relevant to the SDGs would provide innovators with critical enabling tools. ICT tools can help communities develop inclusive technologies that reflect their own priorities and needs. New technologies have also enabled the development of collaborative models and learning platforms based on open-source applications and sharing of data. An example in education was presented, whereby educative content is digitized and made engaging for children. Stakeholders can customize the content and run various tests of what is most effective. The data is shared with all interested stakeholders and communities. Such models illustrate the fact that developers can have incentives to share content and applications in exchange for data. New technologies such as mobile phone technology have allowed countries to leapfrog. Paradoxically, because infrastructure development is path dependent, lack of infrastructure can foster leapfrogging. Examples include agriculture (farmers using smartphones to access information on food prices, weather conditions, forecasts of locust outbreaks); use of air quality sensors; and use real time data monitoring technology. International cooperation International cooperation on capacity building has to occur on a level that is commensurate with the SDG ambitions. Developing countries need special support in this regard. The more developing countries are engaged in the technology development process, co-designing and co-adapting technologies, the more they will become sources of knowledge themselves. International cooperation based on the right incentives - could increase cost effectiveness, address market failures and improve economic efficiency. All forms of cooperation and partnerships, including South-South, North-South, and triangular cooperation, should be encouraged, in order to facilitate access to STI. Regional cooperation on problems of common concern and voluntary technology cooperation agreements are important. At the level of the UN, the Technology Bank for the LDCs and the TFM could play a role in such agreements. Concrete guidelines are needed on technology transfer to developing countries, including conditions of transfer, evaluation, and replication of technology. In this context, the GEF has developed a series of pointers for developing countries. 6
7 III) Recommendations for the STI Forum Going forward, the Forum is an opportunity to strengthen the dialogue between stakeholders and governments and promote a conducive environment to share and exchange ideas, success stories in scientific collaborations, innovation, technology transfer and diffusion, and suggest new initiatives and partnerships. It can help identify practical means and solutions to foster science, technology and innovation in all countries. In this respect, the Forum should consider various sources of knowledge, including indigenous knowledge, and facilitate exchanges on STI solutions. The forum may provide one venue to provide concrete, practical guidance on how to make STI for SDGs a reality, including how to enhance the transfer of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries. In terms of governance, working methods and activities, the forum could take inspiration from other mechanisms such as the Internet Governance Forum, which was mentioned as an example of successful multi-stakeholder mechanism working at different levels. Promoting networking and matchmaking There is a need to ensure multi-stakeholder participation in the STI Forum and ensure that the contributions from experts, technology users, change agents, the youth, the private sector, academy, and all relevant stakeholder groups are taken into account. The forum also needs to reflect the perspectives of the poor. The Forum could become a platform at the global level for the STI community and its full diversity of stakeholders to jointly create the conditions of possibility for transformative, solutions-oriented STI, by fostering international coordination and multi-stakeholder collaboration and, where necessary, providing support to manage the disruptions to STI policy and practice this will generate. This includes conveying locally determined needs to achieve the SDGs, and presenting useful and proven technologies developed by communities and local innovators. The first STI Forum experimented with ways to promote networking and matchmaking, as per its mandate. For example, innovators selected among a large number of respondents to an open call for action had a chance to present their innovations, and other participants expressed interest in helping some of them access funding. Open calls for innovation could be a recurrent feature of future forums, to help sourcing, funding and deploying technology solutions to specific SDG challenges. In this context, the Forum could facilitate access to funding for outstanding innovations with the greatest SDG impacts. It would be important to expand to participation in the forum to include the financial sector, especially providers of early-stage finance, who could be matched with participating innovators. In between annual sessions of the Forum, the 10 Member Group and the UN Interagency Task Team may promote activities that catalyse and enable stakeholder engagement in the technology facilitation mechanism, fostering the inclusion of existing initiatives and organizations that also promote STI for sustainable development. This can be done around crosscutting themes (e.g. data collection and availability), or for specific sectors (e.g. health, education and others). The STI Forum as catalyst for multi-stakeholder partnerships Governments need to collaborate and innovate together with all types of stakeholders and experts to leverage STI for achieving the SDGs. In this context, the UN needs to continue supporting such cooperation through its convening power. In particular, the STI Forum has to serve as catalyst for multi-stakeholder partnerships (including the private sector). It needs to link closely with and bring together existing initiatives, such as the International Network of Government Science Advice, the Global Research Council, the Future Earth Programme, Africa Innovation Foundation, Private Public 7
8 Academic Partnerships, the Global Young Academy, as well as development and research funding agencies at national, regional and global levels. Numerous examples of successful multi-stakeholder partnerships were featured in the Forum, for example, the Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge; FIRST, which has promoted science and technology among children in 46,000 schools in 86 countries; COPIA, which addresses hunger and food waste through technology; and many others. The STI Forum should support sharing experiences with these partnerships and learn from their organisational models. Similarly, the STI Forum needs to be coherent with and link closely to ongoing STI activities at global, regional and national levels, many of which were mentioned in the course of the Forum. Examples of other organizations working on STI mentioned specifically included the UN s LDC Technology Bank, UNFCC s CTCN, APCTT, European Commission science and technology programmes, and many others. The UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development was specifically mentioned as an institution within the United Nations with a mandate to provide high level advice on science, technology and innovation to both the UN General Assembly and ECOSOC and that synergies should be established with its work programs and meetings, which also include input from stakeholders. Making future STI Forums work cumulatively over the next 14 years The Forum must be action-oriented and cumulative in its impacts. Over the next 14 years, future STI Forums should learn from and advance the achievements of previous Forums. In this context, various proposals were made, including inter-sessional meetings, regional and/or national STI forums, events and activities, as well as global online discussions and more systematic ways of involving civil society. Several proposals were made on how to make the forum itself more interactive, including break-out sessions. In that regard, it was suggested that the breakout sessions could focus on SDGs targets that are primarily technology focused, including specific targets related to education, gender, health, and Internet, as well as other targets that could benefit from STI. The Forum should become the outcome of an annual programme of results-oriented activities and, as part of a series, a regular moment for collaboratively defining priorities for needed activities. Activities could address concrete objectives, such as: monitoring and sharing trends in the deployment of STI for SDGs; showcasing specific solutions and achievements (e.g., social and technological innovations, the development of national policy roadmaps, multilateral STI resource mobilisation); collecting, coordinating and making available state-of-the-art expertise on specific issues or practice areas (e.g., STI training and education, capacity building and mobilisation, science advice, the development and diffusion of inclusive, transformational technologies, technology assessment, open data/digital platforms); undertaking horizon scanning and technology foresight activities; identifying emerging priorities and critical knowledge and innovation gaps as well as neglected SDGs and targets identifying and assessing ways of mobilizing STI responses to these; continuing to build the STI-for- SDGs community of collaborators, including UN initiatives, and providing effective matchmaking opportunities. The 10-Member Group and the Inter-Agency Task Team offered to further refine these objectives and to develop concrete actions in their support. 8
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