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Even before the pandemic, the role that robust knowledge and experts played in our democracies was a complicated one. Technology, globalisation, demographic change, and other major shifts in all of our lives feel like they have been moving faster than the collective processes we put in place to understand and deal with them as societies. The solutions to these issues are likely to be as complicated as the problems.
Prof Daniel Sarewitz has been the Editor-in-Chief on Issues in Science and Technology and has written for some of the most prestigious journals and magazines in the world. Recently retired from Arizona State University, Prof Sarewitz joins the INGSA Horizon Stage to discuss the challenges, opportunities and risks for evidence in democracy.
Prof Sabina Leonelli is Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Exeter, UK. She is a leading scholar in the study of the impact of Big and Open Data on research and wider society, and the philosophy of Open Science during 2022 she is based in Berlin as a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, working on her project "Excellence and Diversity in Global Scientific Practice".