Open Science for Accelerating the Sustainable Development Goals: Status and Prospects in Asia and the Pacific

• DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2022.878761
• Publication Date: 2022-06-29T06:54:01Z
• Authors: Jeff Camkin; Susana Neto; Basundhara Bhattarai; Hemant Ojha; Shahbaz Khan; Ai Sugiura; Jiaying Lin; Fitrie Atviana Nu...; Joseph Muiruri Ka...
• Keywords: Open Science; Science Policy; Capacity Building; Millennium Development Goals

Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is increasingly challenging due to widening inequality in access scientific and technological knowledge resources. With science remaining too discipline based, policymakers often averse, there a need for greater understanding of opportunities challenges open practitioners, policy makers communities. Acknowledging that can be powerful tool reduce inequalities, UNESCO has been supporting shift science. Following global multistakeholder consultation, Recommendation on Open Science was adopted November 2021, establishing universal definition, common standards shared set values principles. In Regional Bureau Asia Pacific partnered with Institute Study Worldwide local national mapping identify implementation strategies mechanisms already place enable Pacific, what more needed. Focused Malaysia, Republic Korea, Pakistan, Samoa Uzbekistan, study showed while are many examples good practice aspects science, none focus countries currently all policies, infrastructure, awareness capacity building Typically, clear policies have not yet articulated funding established. Trust key pre-requisite Current inequities infrastructure will addressed or may unbalanced, exacerbating existing at national, regional, scales. There learn from efforts toward but no generic model; each country design an model pathway suited its context. A predominant message this research convening power should continue harnessed engage implementation. Further, those committed work hard, UNESCO, democratize encourage ethos “ - society science” .