The importance of our global system to disseminate research in the current digital era is hard to overstate, yet its undue profitability and systemic failures are frequently ignored.
A more transformative and inclusive vision for change is still possible, but the challenges are principally political, rather than technical or economic. A targeted science diplomacy effort could kick-start fresh action to reform our global systems for publishing research and sharing knowledge through leveraging digital innovations and better digital platforms. In the full policy brief we will build on our paper from last year, to establish a vision for reform, detail a theory of change for how science diplomacy can realise such reform and offer specific recommendations for the G20 in 2024.