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Third Expert Group Meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation Roadmaps for the SDGs Agenda (DRAFT)

Co-organized by DESA, the World Bank, UNCTAD and UNESCO

Co-hosted by G-STIC and European Commission in collaboration with the Government of Japan

27-29 November 2018 Brussels, Belgium

Day One - 27 November 2018

9:00 – 9:30 Registration and welcome coffee

PART ONE: Welcome

9:30 – 10:00

Opening

Welcome remarks VITO, EC/JRC

Introduction to the meeting

Shantanu Mukherjee (UNDESA), Klaus Tilmes (the World Bank)

Group photo (tbc)/coffee break (10:00 – 10:15)

10:15 –11:15

Session 1: Introduction to the UN work on STI Roadmaps for the SDGs

This session will take stock of the previous deliberations through three STI Forums and two EGMs on STI Roadmaps for the SDGs; discuss the vision, objectives, scope and boundaries of the TFM/IATT’s work on STI roadmaps at national and international levels; and introduce an overview of various discussion topics for the EGM set the tone and expectations to the participants.

Moderator: JRC or G-STIC

Panelists: Wei Liu (UNDESA), Naoto Kanehira (the World Bank), Carl Dahlman (the World Bank consultant)

Guiding questions:

● What is the context for the UN work on STI roadmaps, the milestones, and the plan?

● What can we learn from relevant national and international experiences?

● What do we want to achieve through our work on STI roadmaps? How do we want the participants to contribute to the work through the EGM and beyond?

Initial feedback and interactive discussion

* IATT’s Issues Brief and Background Paper will be circulated for all participants.

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PART Two: National STI Roadmaps 11:15 – 12:30 Session 2A: Designing National STI Roadmaps: Country Contexts and Policy

Frameworks This session focuses on comparison of existing frameworks and practices related to integrating STI roadmaps to national sustainable development strategies. Potential points for discussion include methodologies to identify and align STI contributions to Goals/Targets under national priorities, institutional frameworks to align whole-of-government STI policies and strategies to the SDGs, and practical guidance for countries to develop and implement national STI roadmaps.

Moderator: Mr. Michiharu Nakamura, Senior Advisor, Japan Science and Technology Agency

Panelists:

Mr. Tom Peter Migun Ogada, Executive Director, African Center for Technology Studies (ACTS) and Chairperson, Kenyan National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI)

Mr. Atanas Kochov, University St Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, FYROM

Ms. Amani Charrad, Head of Partnership and International Cooperation Office at National Agency for Promotion of Scientific Research, Tunisia

Mr. Norichika Kanie, Professor, Keio University

Mr. Oscar Cobar, National Secretary of State on Science and Technology, National Secretariat on Science and Technology, Guatemala

Mr. Patrick Ignatius Gomes, Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), Guyana (tbc)

Guiding questions:

● What do we know about countries’ gaps and needs in achieving the SDGs? And how can STI address these gaps?

● What are practical approaches to align STI action plans and strategies to national priorities in achieving the SDGs, including through realistic pathways and disruptive, leapfrogging, or systemic/non-linear approaches?

● What are the key diagnostic elements for developing national STI Roadmaps, which can be generalized based on comparative analysis and used in the guidebook? Especially for the use of developing countries which need capacity building?

Interactive discussion * Draft guidebook section on the guidance for national STI roadmaps will be circulated to the participants.

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch Break

Special Lunch Session (tbc)

Mr. Vladimir Sucha, Secretary General of JRC/EC

Mr. Michiharu Nakamura, Senior Advisor, Japan Science and Technology Agency

14:00 – 15:15

Session 2B: Implementing National STI Roadmaps: Governance, Participation, Coordination and Policy Learning This section will discuss governance arrangements that can assist with the creation and implementation of a national STI Roadmap, including multi-stakeholder participation, inter-ministerial coordination, prioritization, funding, and mechanisms to track progress.

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Moderator: Clovis Freire, UNCTAD

Panelists: Mr. Fumikazu Sato, Councilor, Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, Mr. Zhengzhong Xu, Professor, Deputy Dean of the Institute for International Strategic Studies and Director of the International Organizations Institute of Chinese Academy of Governance. Mr. Daan du Toit, Deputy Director-General: International Cooperation and Resources, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa Mr. David Mair, Head of Unit, Joint Research Centre, European Commission (JRC) Joy-Ann Skinner, Ambassador of Barbados in Brussels, (tbc) Guiding Questions

● What are the good practices in this area to help creation and implementation of a national STI roadmaps?

● What recommendations could be used in the draft guideline in the guidebook?

Interactive discussion

15:15 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:00 Session 2C: Capacity development for STI roadmaps

This session focuses on how to build capacity needed to design and implement STI roadmaps as a method of achieving SDGs, at individual, institutional and societal levels.

Moderator: Ms. Heide Hackmann, Executive Director, ICSU

Panelists:

Ms. Bitrina Diyamett, Founder and Executive Director at STIPRO, Tanzania

Mr. Keiji Katai, Director, Private Sector Development Group, JICA

Mr. Salifu Mohammed, CEO the national commission for tertiary education, Ghana,

Mr. Thomas Munthali, Africa Capacity Development Foundation,

Mr. Daniel Vertesy (JRC),

Ms. Jelena Begovic (Serbia, tbc),

Ms. Benetia Chingapane, Director of Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of international affairs, Botswana (tbc)

Guiding Questions:

● How do countries develop the capacity needed to prepare and implement a national STI roadmap?

● What recommendations on capacity building issues could be used in the draft guideline in the guidebook?

Interactive discussion

17:30 - Reception (sponsored by the World Bank)

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Day Two - 28 November 2018

9:15-10:30 Session 2D: Proposal on joint actions for Country Pilots for STI roadmaps

This session focuses on design of a possible program of joint or coordinated assistance to a small set of pilot countries to develop and implement national STI roadmaps for the SDGs.

Moderator: Mr. Klaus Tilmes (the World Bank),

Panelists:

Mr. Has Bunton, Secretary General National Science and Technology, Cambodia

Mr. Desta Abera, Director of Policy and Future Planning, Ministry of Innovation and Technology, Ethiopia

Ms. Endang Sulastri, Deputy Director of Higher Ed. ST and Culture, Ministry of National Development Planning, Indonesia

Mr. Victor Nedovic (Serbia, tbc)

Guiding Questions

● What are countries’ experiences and possible suggestions with regard to building on domestic capabilities and receiving support from external partners in developing and implementing STI strategies and action plans?

● How can UN and other agencies better synergize, harmonize and scale-up support to countries’ efforts on STI roadmaps?

● How best can international cooperation be facilitated through matchmaking countries’ gaps/needs in harnessing STI to achieve national priorities with available knowledge and expertise within UN system and beyond?

● What are the good practices in going from pilot experience to a broader scale?

Interactive discussion

PART THREE: International STI Roadmaps

10:30-11:30 Session 3A: International STI roadmaps: support frameworks, partnerships and roles of donor countries.

This session will focus on donor countries’ strategies to use STI to address global challenges and contribute to developing countries’ achievement of the SDGs. Potential points for discussion include the intersection between STI and official development assistance (ODA) policies/programs, STI for global public goods, stimulating private sector STI contributions, donor coordination, and issues related to measurement and governance.

Moderator: Ana Persic, UNESCO

Panelists:

Mr. Jonathan Wong, UNESCAP

Ms. Elisabeth Fosseli Olsen, Senior Advisor of Human Innovation, Innovation Norway

Mr. Dirk Messner, Director, (UNU-EHS, tbc),

Ms. Eun Mee Kim (Ewha Womans University, Seoul, tbc)

Mr. Mario Cervantes (OECD, tbc),

Mr. Alex Jones (DFID, tbc),

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Guiding Questions

● What kind of support programs and instruments in the intersection of STI and ODA are available to developing countries?

● How best can partnerships be promoted and donors STI activities be coordinated to maximize synergies and complementarities?

● What recommendations on STI-ODA and the role of international organization could be used in the guidebook?

Interactive discussion

11:30 - 12:00

For Information only, the following G-STIC session is relevant to the EGM. You may want to participate if you are available and interested. But it is not EGM session.

G-STIC Plenary

Introduction - Expert Group Meeting on STI Roadmaps for the SDGs

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break

12:30 - 18:00 Time slot for IATT meetings and GSTIC participation

G-STIC Day 1 (continued) - Ministerial Dialogue at 17:00-18:00

Day Three - 29 November 2018

11:00-12:30 3B: International STI Roadmap and Multi-stakeholder contributions to STI roadmap development and implementation

This session will look at the roadmaps that private sector, civil society, philanthropies, and academia can design and implement, in harnessing STI to play their respective roles to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs.

Moderator: Mr. Paulo Gadelha, Coordinator of the FIOCRUZ Strategy for the 2030 Agenda, Brazil

Panelists: Ms. Veerle Vandeweerd, Policy Director, G-STIC Ms. Neth Dano, former 10 Member Group, Technology Facilitation Mechanism (civil society representative) Ms. Christiane Diehl, Executive Director European Academies' Science Advisory Council, Mr. Tony Philips, Head of Research and Policy, Pathway for Prosperity G-STIC Participants from Private Sector (tbc)

Guiding Questions:

● How can multi-stakeholders assist nations in building the necessary capacity and develop policy needed to implement SDGs?

● What key messages on the role of multi-stakeholder engagement could be used in the draft guideline in the guidebook?

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Interactive discussion

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30

Session 3C: International STI roadmaps, deep dive analysis

Potential points for discussion include sectoral examples of deep dive analysis and goal-/target-specific roadmaps at the international level, to help identify STI opportunities and close potential gaps between global goals/targets and country level efforts. Moderator: Patrick Gilabert, UNIDO Panelists: Mr. Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Deputy Director General and Deputy Chief Executive Officer (IIASA) Mr. Christopher Dye, Director of Strategy, Policy and Information (WHO), Mr. Michal Miedzinski, Senior Research Associate, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, U.K. Ms. Annisa Triyanti (UNISDR TAG Member, tbc) Anupam Khanna (tbc) IEA representative (tbc)

Guiding questions:

● What key elements constitutes global strategy, policy framework and implementation arrangements related to achieving specific Goals/Targets utilizing science, technology and innovation?

● How best can the contributions of STI to achieve global goals/targets be identified and progress tracked, in context of follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda?

● What are the top three key recommendations on development of international STI roadmaps should be highlighted in the next STI Forum/or its prep meeting?

Interactive discussion

15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break

15:45-16:45

Session 3D: International STI roadmaps, harnessing innovative integrated technology solutions and frontier technologies

This session will discuss examples of how STI roadmaps informing on the use, dissemination, adoption and adaptation of innovative integrated technology solutions and frontier technologies (e.g. AI, big data, IoT, 3D printing, biotechnology, nanotechnology, renewable energy technology) to harness their potential contributions across the SDGs.

Moderator: Mr. José Ramón López-Portillo Romano, Q Element Ltd. Mexico

Panelists:

Mr. Amandeep Gill, Indian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Executive Director, Secretariat of the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation

Ms. Xiaolan Fu, Professor of Technology and International Development and Director Technology & Management Centre for Development, ODID, Oxford University

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Mr. Richard Alexander Roehrl (UN DESA)

Martino Pesaresi (JRC)

Arndt Husar (former UNDP, foresight)

Guiding questions:

● How to promote the development and use of frontier technologies to contribute to solving global challenges (e.g. climate change, plastic pollution in the ocean)?

● What are concrete examples of innovative integrated tech

solution/frontier technologies that can deployed and substantively

contribute to the achievement of one or more SDG targets?

● How to promote the dissemination of frontier technologies, particularly in low income developing countries and least developed countries, to contribute to the achievement of SDGs at the national level?

● How could we promote technological change and the adoption of frontier technologies in a way that reduces inequalities across and within countries?

● Which of international actors can own, champion, participate or help implement such international roadmaps to achieve the above objectives?

Interactive discussion

PART FOUR: Conclusion

16:45 – 18:00 Session 4: Next steps and closing

This session will reflect on EGM discussions and discuss next steps to further elevate the ownership and championship of the STI roadmaps. Report back on the follow-up actions related to the guidebook. co-Moderators: Mr Shantanu Mukherjee, Chief, Division for Sustainable Development Goals, UN DESA; Mr. Michiharu Nakamura, Senior Advisor, Japan Science and Technology Agency

Guiding questions:

● What outcomes should STI Forum produce? What contributions can the participants make?

● What collective actions do we recommend through 2019-2020 milestones? * A draft annotated outline of the guidebook will be circulated to participants.

30 November 2018 - Last day of GSTIC Conference

9:00 - 10:30 For Information only, the following G-STIC session is relevant to the EGM. You may want to participate if you are available and interested. But it is not EGM session.

G-STIC Plenary session

Improving content quality of sustainable technology databases

This panel discussion offers an opportunity to explore the issues surrounding content quality of technology databases. It will aim to produce tangible proposals on how database content can be improved to achieve the SDGs and serve their philosophical underpinnings of universality, inclusion, human rights, and leaving no one behind. The panelists will share their experiences with databases housed in their organizations, including how database entries are accepted (or rejected); what kinds of review and

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selection processes are used; what kinds of methods determine validity and credibility of the entries; and any lessons learned on improving the database content. The discussions will aim to produce tangible proposals for the international process on the Technology Facilitation Mechanism for SDGs.