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Science as a Shared Journey: Engaging Communities, Building Trust, and Advancing Open Science for the SDGs
7 May 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library in the Department of Global Communications would like to invite you to a virtual panel discussion: “Science as a Shared Journey: Engaging Communities, Building Trust, and Advancing Open Science for the SDGs,” scheduled for Wednesday, 7 May, 2025, 8:30 – 9:45 a.m. (ET). This virtual event is a side event to the 10th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals.
The right to participate in and benefit from science remains fundamental to human progress and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Open Science is collaborative and inclusive, allows new social actors to engage in scientific processes, contributes to the democratization of knowledge, upholds scientific integrity, and addresses systemic inequalities and enclosures of knowledge. Open Science, with its focus on participatory methods and citizen science initiatives, is integral to supporting SDG localization. Through examples like community-led environmental monitoring and crowd-sourced health data collection, citizen science, an integral component of Open Science, has demonstrated the power of inclusive knowledge creation. Science cannot function as a public good if the public cannot engage with it.
Building momentum toward the 4th Open Science and Open Scholarship Conference, this side event will convene diverse stakeholders – researchers, librarians, publishers and citizen science initiatives – to discuss the mechanisms through which public contributions and permanent access to scientific discoveries and innovations can strengthen public trust in scientific and knowledge organizations. This dialogue aims to produce actionable recommendations for scientific institutions to meaningfully engage diverse publics in knowledge creation and validation processes.
Speakers include:
Opening remarks by Mr. Maher Nasser, Department of Global Communications
Dr. Shalini Dhyani, CSIR-National Environment Engineering Research Institute
Mr. Thomas Kaarsted, University Library of Southern Denmark
Ms. Heather Page, United Nations Statistics Division
Dr. Mónica D. Ramírez-Andreotta, University of Arizona
Moderator: Mr. Thanos Giannakopoulos, Chief, Information Management Section & Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Department of Global Communications