Africa-EU Summit Science Dialogue Events

The law has not caught up with the evolution of science and digital innovation – how can legal institutions and structures adapt? As an example implicit historical bias and digital colonization can be recognized explicitly so that the future of scientific research benefits all stakeholders: not just the researchers, but also the local communities in which research is conducted, and lays seeds for local scientists to participate. 
Today scientific data is perceived to be "owned" by the researchers who generate or gather it. We need to investigate new oversight and governance models where all stakeholders have a say in governance and access appropriate to their contribution. When science is done in the traditional way, the scientists collect and keep data closed to develop findings and products independently of the people they are intended for. This creates a huge accessibility gap where the solutions have been created but are inaccessible to the people and systems that both supported their development and urgently need to apply and learn from the findings.