Manifesto for building an effective Ocean Knowledge System

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 The starting point
A wide mobilization of all components of society is required for addressing today and future ocean challenges, and for seizing in a sustainable manner the development opportunities that the ocean offers.

 Our working assumption
An ocean knowledge system associating all stakeholders who are (1) producing, (2) translating and (3) using knowledge, is a prerequisite to effective ocean governance and to support wide mobilization and engagement. Such an ocean knowledge system needs to cover all aspects of the human-ocean connections and bring together different types of knowledge, from empirical knowledge to science and innovation.

 What can you do
Help us identify the priorities among the key principles and actions to go forward in the Manifesto.
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The ResponSEAble and MARINA team

Key principles for the ocean knowledge system to support effective ocean governance:

Based on your experience, please identify the *three most relevant principles

Gain a sound understanding of (evolving and dynamic) societal needs & demands for ocean knowledge

Co-build ocean knowledge, mobilising knowledge produced by all parties involved, opening science and innovation to all, mobilising citizens from today and from tomorrow in knowledge co-creation

Establish shared and transparent mechanisms that ensure the quality and credibility (saliency and legitimacy) of both (1) the knowledge produced and (2) the processes that contribute to producing, translating and using ocean knowledge

Develop protocols and rules that deliver open access and put the conditions right for ensuring accessibility to data, information and knowledge to all, accounting for the diversity of ocean knowledge “use contexts”

Develop fit-to-purpose mechanisms for ensuring the right knowledge reaches the right target group, so as to strengthen ocean literacy and research & Innovation for all – including citizens, consumers, business and value chains actors, decision makers, scientists, media…

Ensure accountability & responsibility of all involved in the ocean knowledge system, including knowledge end-users that have the responsibility to make effective and transparent use of the co-built knowledge and which commitments need to be monitored in a transparent manner

To translate these principles to reality and contribute to making a change:

Based on your experience, please identify the *three most relevant 'ways forward'

Provide new skills to widen the perspective of all involved

Give more attention to human sciences (in particular sociology, psychology, anthropology, media, marketing, economics, social processes…) to capture « what drives » all involved and the connections between knowledge, perception, attitude and behaviour. This will help making initiatives from the local to the global scale “fit for purpose” and effective

Mobilise new actors, in particular media specialists, science & knowledge brokers and multipliers which job is to contribute to knowledge sharing. Bring also land-based stakeholders connected (directly or indirectly) to the ocean that are very absent from today’s debate on the ocean

Establish new bridges facilitating exchanges and links between existing knowledge platforms and communities mobilized in different building blocks of the ocean knowledge system

Develop new governance, management and strategic plans for (research) organisations to define longterm strategies that strengthen the ocean knowledge system and give the right incentives to knowledge producers, knowledge brokers, and knowledge (end-) users

Make sound and transparent evaluation (of Responsible Research & Innovation, of Ocean Literacy initiatives, of new knowledge …) a requirement for all to monitor progress and learn from experience. Allocate sufficient resources (human, financial, time…) to deliver robust evaluations.

Seize opportunities offered by all policies – including policies supporting business development, environmental protection, education, communication… both maritime and land-based, to support the (rapid) development of a sound ocean knowledge system that contribute to knowledge-base management and public decision building

Overall

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Do not separate Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Ocean Literacy (OL): these are complementary components of the same Ocean Knowledge System

Keep the attention to the ocean, making explicit the role of ocean in the earth system. The ocean needs a voice to be heard.

Let’s put our heads out of the ocean, lets’ bring the ocean to the streets.

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