How do we build common interests among allies and adversaries alike? Circling back to the base of the pyramid… Evidence-based decisions and data-driven decisions are parts of the process, but they are insufficient without being inclusive about what evidence and which data, which requires common interests. Informed decisions are the apex goals – not good decisions or bad decisions, right decisions or wrong decisions – but decisions that optimize the available information and perspectives in an international, interdisciplinary and inclusive (holistic) manner. Options (without advocacy), which can be used or ignored explicitly (in the style of science diplomacy), are necessary to produce informed decisions, which operate across a ‘continuum of urgencies’ – which is what we are experiencing as a globally-interconnected civilization with the COVID-19 pandemic over months-years, short-term to long-term before and after the inflection point that will happen. However, data to answer questions (levels of research) are different than evidence for decisions, which involve institutions for both governance mechanisms and built infrastructure as well as their coupling for sustainability.Įvidence, however, only compels the decisionmakers to act. The trends, patterns and processes are underlain by data that were collected to answer questions. My response is in relation to your observation that “data generate decisions.”Ī unifying feature of the natural sciences and social sciences as well as Indigenous knowledge is the ‘study of change’ – revealing trends, patterns and processes (albeit with different methodologies) that become the bases for decisions. Thank you for your kind collaboration and important observations about the data cycle. Subject: RE: Diagram Paul Berkman adapted (2) To: Niv Ahituv niek at codata-international at So I resend it now as an attachment to this mail. I have realized that the figure of the Data Cycle Model was “reshuffled” in my message. Next message (by thread): Diagram Paul Berkman adapted (2).Previous message (by thread): Diagram Paul Berkman adapted (2).Diagram Paul Berkman adapted (2) Niv Ahituv ahituv at .il
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