Table 3.
Relevant diplomacy-based toolkits.
| Organization | Title | Focus | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organisation for Economic Co- Operation and Development (OECD) | OECD Recommendation on Responsible Innovation in Neurotechnology Weblink: https://www.oecd.org/science/recommendation-on-responsible-innovation-in-neurotechnology.htm |
Goal is to guide governments and investors in addressing multiple challenges associated with innovations in neurotechnologies. | By offering nine specific recommendations, this toolkit offers guidance on the entire innovation process, and addresses the need for new innovations particularly in mental health and the study of neurological disorders.62 |
| S4D4C | Using Science For/In Diplomacy For Addressing Global Challenges (S4D4C): Toolkits for Trainers Weblink: https://www.s4d4c.eu/toolkit-for-trainers/ |
Discussion and analysis of the multitude of possible uses of system thinking to better understand and address current global challenges. It offers multiple tools, perspectives, and concepts to enhance thinking around the most complex global issues. |
Designed to help trainers who seek to plan, design, implement and/or evaluate a training program with a science diplomacy focus.63 |
| Organisation for Economic Co- Operation and Development (OECD) | New Approaches to Economic Challenges: Systemic Thinking for Policy Making, The Potential of Systems Analysis for Addressing Global Policy Challenges in the 21st Century Weblink: https://doi.org/10.1787/879c4f7a-en |
Discussion and analysis of the multitude of uses of system thinking to better understand and tackle the problems of the modern world. It offers tools, perspectives, and concepts to improve thinking around complex global issues. | An argument for the potential of systems analysis to impact a variety of topics from sustainability to cities, to the importance of linking education with aging. It also calls for creating new systems and modeling tools, and suggests building new tools and merging existing ones from multiple fields to accomplish this.64 |
| Science & Diplomacy | Science and Technology Agreements as Tools for Science Diplomacy: A U.S. Case Study Weblink: https://www.sciencediplomacy.org/article/2012/science-and-technology-agreements-tools-for-science-diplomacy |
Offers an argument for the importance of science and technology bilateral agreements between countries as a method for increasing diplomacy and inter-country relationships. | Dolan (2012) provides an argument for the continued use of science and technology bilateral agreements, and offers successful examples of Science and Technology (S&T) agreements where scientific cooperation led to an improved diplomatic relationship.65 |
| GESDA Foundation | Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator Weblink: https://gesda.global/ |
Through science and diplomacy, a focus on public-private partnerships on an international scale as well as on projects offering solutions to current and future technological challenges, by converting them into opportunities and broadening the scope of possible beneficiaries of scientific and technological advancements. |
The GESDA Foundation seeks to use the International Geneva ecosystem as a platform for anticipating, accelerating, and translating the use of emerging science-driven topics into tangible action. |
| Office of Secretary-General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon | Preventive Diplomacy: Delivering Results Weblink: https://peacemaker.un.org/node/89 |
The purpose of the toolkit is to provide an argument for the necessity of Preventive Diplomacy, and to offer successful examples of use. | In five explicit sections, the toolkit's purpose is to articulate the multiple, beneficial impacts of Preventive Diplomacy, by offering concrete as well as theoretical examples of its use.55 |
| World Health Organization (WHO) | Be he@lthy, be mobile: a handbook on how to implement mDementia Weblink: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240019966 |
The mDementia Handbook provides guidance in five key areas: Operations Management; Content development and adaptation; Promotion, participation and retention; Technology specifications, Monitoring and evaluation. |
This resource details the mDementia program, which uses mHealth to enhance the support of individuals, families, and care partners of people living with dementia.66 |