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Global Governance Futures and the need for International Scientific Co – operation

Global Governance Futures and the need for International Scientific Co – operation. Miroslav POLZER , Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office (ASO) Ljubljana www.aso.zsi.at.

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Global Governance Futures and the need for International Scientific Co – operation

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  1. Global Governance Futures and the need for International Scientific Co – operation Miroslav POLZER, Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office (ASO) Ljubljana www.aso.zsi.at

  2. AC UNU Millennium project has grouped future oriented global governance challenges into 15 Global Challenges:[2] • How can sustainable development be achieved for all? • How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict? • How can population growth and resources be brought into balance? • How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes? • How can policymaking be made more sensitive to global long-term perspectives? • How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone? • How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor? • How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune micro-organisms be reduced? • How can the capacity to decide be improved as the nature of work and institutions change? • How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and the use of weapons of mass destruction? • How can the changing status of women help improve the human condition? • How can transnational organized crime networks be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated global enterprises? • How can growing energy demands be met safely and efficiently? • How can scientific and technological breakthroughs be accelerated to improve the human condition? • How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions? [1] source: Glenn Jerome C. and Gordon Theodore J., 2005 State of the Future, AC/UNU  Millennium Project Report, 2005

  3. OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy, Meeting on Ministerial level on 29 & 30 January 2004: • “Greater international co-operation in science and technology is vital to meet a broad range of global challenges related to economic growth, better health, sustainable development, and enhanced safety and security, as well as for implementing large science projects in a growing range of disciplines. In this regard, Ministers adopted a Declaration aiming at strengthening international S&T co-operation for sustainable development. They endorsed efforts to establish a framework for a Global Biological Resource Centre Network and gave their support to promote scientific co-operation in the fields of high-energy physics and neuroinformatics.” • This co-ordination effort of S&T policies on global level could build on experience EU has gained in creating European Research Area (ERA). In analogy to ERA a framework for global co-ordination of S&T policies could be called “Global Research Area”

  4. A starting point for Global Research Area: EU FP6 project proposal „GLOBALGOALS - Global Research Initiative for the Achievement of UN Millennium Development Goals“

  5. GLOBALGOALS Consortium and Logo

  6. Goals of the project GLOBALGOALS are: • (1) to develop and disseminate scientific policy advise for the International Opening of ERA; • (2) to develop and disseminate scientific policy advise for the enhanced fulfilment of commitments of EU regarding UN Millennium Development Goals; • (3) to develop and disseminate scientific policy advise for policy coherence (international scientific co-operation and development co-operation policies) regarding co-operation of EU with developing countries and contribution to the definition of new research priorities; • (4) to initiate systematic discussion on a global scheme for co-ordination of policies on international scientific co-operation towards achieving UN MDGs (=outline of a "Global Research Area") in cooperation with UNESCO and triggering international discussion on this issue.

  7. WP 7 Awareness raising, Networking and Dissemination WP3a Policy Dialogue workshops “DC” WP 4a Policy paper “EU MS & Developing Countries”) WP 5 international conference (presentation of policy papers and policy dialogue) in European Parliament WP1 Status quo analysis WP 4b Policy paper “Global Research Area” WP 6 event/exhibition EU MS & S&T & UN MDGs during UN Gen. Assembly 2008 WP2 Foresight workshop WP 4c Policy paper “EU S&T policies - Development policies” WP3b Policy Dialogue workshops “IO” WP 4d Policy paper “Plan for Action in DCs” WP 8 Project Coordination and Management Activities foreseen in GLOBALGOALS

  8. Good Governance dimension of GLOBALGOALS project II If we are to capture the promises of globalization while managing its adverse effects, we must learn to govern better, and we must learn how better to govern together Kofi A. Annan, ‘We the peoples’ – The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century“, p. 12 PRINCIPLES OF GOOD GOVERNANCE Five principles underpin good governance and the changes proposed in this White Paper: openness, participation, accountability, effectiveness and coherence. EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE - A WHITE PAPER Brussels, 2001 COM(2001) 428

  9. Good Governance dimension of GLOBALGOALS project II • Good Governance: Participatory • To be able to participate, people in DCs have to be enabled to participate • Enabling requires „Knowledge“

  10. The Logical Framework Approach to Project Design:

  11. Foresight dimension of GLOBALGOALS project • Foresight is a systematic, participatory, future-intelligencegathering and medium-to-long-term vision-building process aimed at present-day decisions and mobilising joint actions. • Systematic: Logical Framework Approach • Participatory: Policy dialogue workshops & Dissemination, Networking and Awareness raising activities • Vision-building: Foresight workshop and Policy dialogue workshops • Mobilising joint actions: Target group specific Policy papers

  12. GLOBALGOALS Policy Papers‘ Intervention Logic: Link to Global Governance Futures • ICTs offer new channels for Citizen participation in Governance • Instead of „Citizens“ we can talk also of knowledgable individuals (to make the international S&T co-operation dimension more visible), people who have relevant knowledge which could improve governance processes on local, national, regional or global level • The new ICT facilitated „Opportunity Structure for Citizen (Knowledgable persons) participation in governance“ should be utilised (recommended reading: Michael Nentwich, Opportunity Structures for Citizens' Participation: The Case of the European Union, European Integration online Papers (EIoP) Vol. 0 (1996) N° 1) • GLOBALGOALS aims at providing relevant actors with knowledge and raising awareness for innovative forms of participation in (Global) governance

  13. Example of new ICT facilitated „Opportunity Structure for Citizen (Knowledgable persons) participation in governance“ Examples: „virtual“ participation in UN Security Council Meetings on Iraq crisis & Opening of World Information Society Summit in Tunis in November 205

  14. EU contribution to Development related Global Governance • EU (EC and MS together) is providing around 55 % of World’s Official Development Assistance, totalling to more than 6 billion € in 2003[1]. Despite the fact that such huge amount of money is being spent, results of development efforts in Least Developed Countries are rather poor and the gap between developed countries and LDCs is growing. • GLOBALGOALS aims at developing and disseminating relevant policy advice for S%T policy makers, development policy makers, educational policy makers, International Organisations etc. on global, European, national (EU MS and DCs) and Research institutions’ level for knowledge based development efforts which will help significantly to accelerate the process of achievement of UN MDGs in a way that will show EU as a “global player” and not only “global payer”. • [1] Source: Development Strategies; EU Donor Atlas. Mapping Official Development Assistance, Haverhill/UK, May 2004[

  15. GLOBALGOALS project consortium hopes to contribute with ist activities to a future oriented substantial advancement and to innovations in Global Governance which will help to lower developmet gaps between rich and poor countries of the world and to build new partnerships of EU with Developing countries in order to cope more efficiently with Global Governance Challenges of 21st century.

  16. Thank you for your attention! Miroslav Polzer, Dr. rer.soc.oec, Centre for Social Innovation Vienna - Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office Ljubljana (ASO) Dunajska 104; SI-1000 Ljubljana; Slovenija; e-mail: polzer@zsi.at; homepage: www.aso.zsi.at

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