Thread by @DrLMelchor

📢WE PUBLISH THE SECOND PAPER ON EVALUATION OF #SCIENCE4POLICY SYSTEMS.
@StrandRoger elaborates on the essential features for the "Good governance of evidence-informed policymaking".
See a short blog: tinyurl.com/StrandBlog
And the entire report: tinyurl.com/StrandReport

.@StrandRoger remarks 3 key discussions:
1⃣ Science Doesn’t Speak Truth to Power. As US President Eisenhower warned, science advice has a risk of making public policy captive of a scientific-technological elite.
Transparency, reflexivity, and contextuality may prevent this risk.

2⃣ Control is a False Ideal. Any evaluation framework may be useful, but not to fulfill a Cartesian dream of commanding and controlling policymaking and systems. Relying on pluralism and network approaches to governance may be more relevant for #Science4Policy ecosystems.

3⃣ We should be smarter than SMART. Moving on from the SMART business jargon in public administration, which encourages ex-ante decisions, to a more imaginative, co-production and co-creative space that network governance does require.

Then, @strandroger proposes a five Evidence-star system, building on @SFuntowicz suggestion to distinguish quality/grade. Increasing your⭐️by fostering integrity & truthfulness, relevance, pluralism, reflexivity & coproduction. Read it fully in the report: tinyurl.com/StrandReport

This is part of a @EU_ScienceHub project on developing an evaluation framework for #Science4Policy systems. We asked three experts to share their ideas: while @StrandRoger took this normative view, @oliver_kathryn used a science system angle & @IngeNiestroy the public admin side.

You may consult @oliver_Kathryn blog piece tinyurl.com/bdh73n5y and her entire report tinyurl.com/2p8skzcf. But also RT/FAV my colleague @dyon75 informative thread about it:

https://twitter.com/dyon75/status/1544362019058491399?s=20&t=pJOO2Iaukgqu23wDITYrzA

Our #Knowledge4Policy Community is open and we welcome your comments. First, sign up for our K4P community here: tinyurl.com/3tknj9bc and then, don't hesitate to post your comments to to @StrandRoger's blog tinyurl.com/StrandBlog

Stay tuned for next week, when we will publish the third blog and report by @IngeNiestroy. In the meantime, read @StrandRoger's blog: tinyurl.com/StrandBlog
and report: tinyurl.com/StrandReport