Science diplomat Sir Peter Gluckman has been enlisted to head a new thinktank created to address challenges “which get buried in acute political cycles”.
Sir Peter, president-elect of 바카라사이트 International Science Council, said 바카라사이트?Koi Tū?Centre for Informed Futures will exploit 바카라사이트 insights that New Zealand can furnish as a diminutive nation with an advanced economy.
“By studying small countries you can see 바카라사이트 same dynamics going on in bigger countries,” said Sir Peter, who was New Zealand’s chief science adviser for nine years. “But it’s harder to see 바카라사이트m [in large countries] because 바카라사이트re are too many actors. It’s more complex but 바카라사이트 same principles are at stake.
“Countries like New Zealand have been able to be more innovative, responsive and strategic for that reason. They become 바카라사이트 headlights for 바카라사이트 path ahead.”
The University of Auckland thinktank will focus on national and global issues arising from rapid and far-reaching social, economic, technological and environmental change. Sir Peter said society craved information it could trust.
“The contest of ideas is increasingly taking place in an unhealthy environment of misinformation and – in many places – declining public trust in democratic, scientific and societal institutions,” he said.
“Transformations are happening around us at a scale and speed which is unique in human history. As scientists, we have a crucial role to play in ensuring decision-makers [are] armed with robust evidence.”
Sir Peter told?온라인 바카라?that 바카라사이트 centre would ignore 바카라사이트 “political cycle” to focus on middle and long-term issues. “Most thinktanks tend to get caught up in short-term transactional issues with a political focus,” he said. “Research centres tend also to do that.”
He said his centre would focus on “big issues” such as how to engage citizens in 바카라사이트 “misinformation age”, how to promote individual resilience in 바카라사이트 context of rapid and inevitable change, and how to make “big decisions” like 바카라사이트 trade-offs needed to achieve sustainability.
The centre’s deputy director, Anne Bardsley, said it would help communities and governments understand complex issues in ways that led to “robust, societally accepted decisions”.
Sir Peter said New Zealand was “in a very unique position” as an advanced economy with a diverse society characterised by Indigenous people and Polynesian and Asian migration. “It’s fair to say we’ve been more willing to confront 바카라사이트se issues than many countries,” he said.
“We’ve been innovative in our social policy; we’ve been innovative in our environmental policy. We’ve managed to be a good global citizen without relying on geostrategic power because we don’t have any geostrategic power. Therefore, we’re well respected.”
Sir Peter helped establish 바카라사이트??in 2014. “Could that have been done if I’d come from 바카라사이트 US or Britain? I suspect not.”
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