Abstract: Today’s institutional leaders face a shifting landscape of challenges. View from the Top: Academic Leaders’ and Funders’ Insights on the Challenges Ahead explores the complex issues academic leaders and funders face, their preparedness to tackle them, and the strategies they’re developing to ensure long-term success for their institutions. Developed from interviews of over 100…
Large language models and other artificial-intelligence systems could be excellent at synthesizing scientific evidence for policymakers — but only with appropriate safeguards and humans in the loop. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have stoked febrile commentary around large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and others, that can generate text in response to typed…
“Deliberative democracy is a term that would have been met with blank stares in academic and political circles just a few decades ago. Yet this approach, which examines ways to directly connect citizens with decision-making processes, has now become central to many calls for government reform across the world. This surge in interest was firstly…
La complexité croissante des défis environnementaux (dérèglement climatique, transition écologique), sanitaires (pandémie inédite) et des changements sociétaux induits par l’évolution de technologies disruptives (intelligence artificielle, réalité augmentée) implique toujours plus la sphère scientifique dans la gouvernance internationale, en fournissant de l’expertise basée sur des preuves scientifiques pour instruire les décisions de politiques publiques. Lire l’intégralité de…
A Diverse and engaging set of Podcasts, produced on a variety of topics: Freedom and Responsibility in science in the 21st century Science in Times of Crisis Science In Exile Big Thinkers Women in Science Nature, Working Scientist: Science Diversified Unlocking Science
Mathieu Ouimet is a professor in Political Science at Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada. For the next five years, he will be leading the new International Francophone Science Advice Network (RFICS).
An article for University World News published following the successful meeting of the Southeast Asia Science Advice Network (SEA SAN) in Malaysia 2022
Over the past decade, the use of scientific expertise to advance diplomacy has achieved a number of successes in furthering peace, security, and prosperity. Yet there have also been reversals in important areas that until recently had seen progress. Reviewing developments in arms control, poverty reduction, global health, science and innovation policy, climate change, sustainable…
Reward the creation of analyses for policymakers that are inclusive, rigorous, transparent and accessible, urge Christl A. Donnelly and colleagues.
The following address was given by Sir Peter Gluckman in August 2018 to the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF) in Pretoria. The 2030 agenda is encapsulated within the 17 SDGs and their 169 targets. This agenda has been criticized as being too broad to be meaningful and too aspirational rather than having the…
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