Scientific knowledge: Perspectives on Capacity Development and Technology Transfer Harriet Harden-DaviesCapacity Development in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ): Experiences, Lessons, Possible Ways ForwardBBNJ PrepCom4
17 July 2017, New York
Scientific knowledge is a cross-cutting issue for BBNJ
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Watling, NOAAWatling, NOAASkropeta, 2008Skropeta, 2008
HardenDavies, 2015 HardenDavies, 2015
Scientific knowledge (acquisition, dissemination and application) is interlinked with scientific capacity development and technology transfer.
Technology transfer and scientific capacity development are linked: UNCLOS Part XIV• Development and transfer of technology
• Objectives (art. 268)• Access to knowledge (arts. 268(a), 277)
• Scientific capacity development• Institutional
• Regional marine science & technology centres (arts. 274, 276, 277)
• Individual• Training and education (arts. 268(d), 275(2), 277(a))
• International scientific cooperation• Gaps/ambiguity
• reasonable, fair and equitable (arts. 266(1) 269(b)) • “need and request” (arts. 266 and 275)
Joining the dots…
Develop and deploy
technology
Individual,Institutional
capacity development
Scientific knowledge for
BBNJ
Transfer technology
Access, use, apply scientific knowledge
Share scientific knowledge
Generate scientific knowledge
BBNJ “technology”: challenge and opportunity
• Scope of ‘marine’ technology for BBNJ?
• Equipment
• Computer software, models
• Manuals, guidelines, standards
• Information and data (incl. techniques)
• Expertise, knowledge, skills
• Lab equipment and data infrastructure? At-sea, on-shore?
Global: development & deployment of ocean observing technology
Image credits: Lisa Levin
Access to scientific knowledge
• Existing platforms e.g. OBIS• Clearinghouse?• Capacity needs:
• Systems• Skills
OBIS regional nodes 2016
Biodiversity Research
ConservationBiodiscovery
Regional: advantages of ‘multi-purpose’ technology
o Multiple research objectiveso Transferrable technologies
for multiple useso e.g. University of South
Pacific, “Centre for Drug Discovery and Conservation”
o Long-term international collaborationo Linking ‘top’ down and
‘bottom-up’
Individual: training and skills
USP.ac.fj
INDEEP CD WG 2016
IOC, OTGA, 2016
• Skills:• At sea• On shore (samples, data)
• Modalities:• Workshops, distance learning,
long-term mentoring• Capacity: e.g. infrastructure
On the horizon
• Enabling international environment• acquisition, dissemination and
application of scientific knowledge• Technology:
• Linking development, deployment, transfer
• Scientific capacity: • Linking global, regional and individual
• Implementation mechanisms that foster international scientific collaboration
