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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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

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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

Thank you

Contact: hrhd829@uowmail.edu.au