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Science Diplomacy and COVID‐19: Future Perspectives for South–South Cooperation
Author(s) -
Sharma Jyoti,
Ricardo Pérez Valerino Danev,
Natalie Widmaier Claudia,
Lima Roberta,
Gupta Nidhi,
Varshney Sanjeev Kumar
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
global policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1758-5899
pISSN - 1758-5880
DOI - 10.1111/1758-5899.13027
Subject(s) - diplomacy , scope (computer science) , political science , geopolitics , covid-19 , sustainable development , government (linguistics) , developing country , politics , economic growth , business , economics , disease , pathology , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , programming language , medicine , linguistics , philosophy
Apart from economic, political, and cultural cooperation for an equal growth of all developing countries, science and technology are an integral significant component in these levels of engagement for leveraging mutual gains. The current pandemic not only brought about an 180 0 shift in the relationship between the government, policy makers, and the scientific community but highlights the importance of South–South Cooperation (SSC). SSC may serve as a mode of cooperation to foster the transfer of need‐based technologies among developing and least developing countries and open many fronts for mutual sharing in terms of geopolitical, available resources, and expertise. The cooperation under the SSC does not substitute but complements North–South development cooperation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The use of science diplomacy would be an effective tool to bring all the stakeholders of the Global South to a common platform to combat future global challenges. Science policy instruments would need to incorporate scope for international collaborations as a means of furthering the national and global imperatives.