Science Diplomacy Week is scheduled to take place in Geneva from June 10 to 14. Four days of meetings, discussions and role-playing to understand the issues of today's world. All with a focus on the future and technology.
Science for diplomacy, diplomacy for science, diplomacy for science There are many ways to deal with and define the existing relationship between the two worlds, as immediately declares Daria Robinson, Director of Solutions Development at the Geneva newspaper l'Anticipateur on Science Diplomacy (GESDA).
The Geneva Science Diplomacy Week aims to be an introduction to a currently unusual approach. “We look at emerging technologies, in the long term, and that completely changes the way science works in relation to diplomacy,” explains Daria Robinson.
With a target audience in balance between several communities (scientific, academic, diplomatic, private and philanthropic sectors) and with “anticipation” as a key word, the dialogue will not stop at trying to understand what the other is, but rather experience it. Through artificial situations. “We give them the opportunity to understand how others think,” Daria Robinson sums up before summarizing: “Our specialty is anticipation. Understanding the importance of emerging technologies in our daily lives and helping tomorrow’s leaders be better equipped.”
