FISHBOWL Session - Push and Pull: Science Advice for Legislatures
Science advice is essential to debate, scrutiny, and law-making in all legislatures, yet most legislatures are lacking dedicated science advisory systems. Research and practice on legislative science advice has primarily focussed on legislatures with substantial human and monetary resources. Developing countries very often lack qualified science-policy intermediaries and the resources to hire them into their legislatures. A dedicated effort is needed to identify the common challenges and opportunities for science advice in less well-resourced legislatures.
This session will bring together the latest research on legislative science advice that incorporates the global (rather than just global north) perspectives, and practitioners who have grappled with the issues of providing science advice for legislatures in developing countries. The primary goal is to identify the specific needs of under-resourced legislatures and to explore a potential range of options for solving problems in the near and long term. Human resources, systems, and processes, as well as new AI and information tools, will be on the table for discussion.
Panelists:
Chris Tyler: Associate Professor - Science Policy and Knowledge Infrastructure, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP), UCL - UK
Ronald Munatsi: Executive Director, Zimbabwe Evidence Informed Policy Network – Zimbabwe
Denis Naughten: Chairperson-Working Group on Science and Technology, Inter-Parliamentary Union – Ireland
Soledad Quiroz Valenzuela, Vice President of Policy, INGSA - Chile
Henriette Canino, Science Advice Researcher, UCL - UK