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Vote For GA resolution Repeal: ''Access to Scientific Knowledge"


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Resolution at Vote: Repeal: ''Access to Scientific Knowledge"
Vote Recommendation: For

Resolution Analysis
Overview
This proposal seeks to repeal GA Resolution #604 "Access to Scientific Knowledge". The issue the proposal highlights is around the use of personal information. The proposal contends that Access to Scientific Knowledge does not give adequate procedures to anonymise such information and unethically requires the transmission of such information to the Council for Scientific Dissemination. It particularly criticises this when linked with the requirement on the CSD to publish the data it receives, breaching the confidentiality of research participants.

Recommendation
The goals of Access to Scientific Knowledge are laudable ones, however, those goals must be set against the need for ethical research and proper respect for confidentiality, particularly in sensitive areas such as health. The obligation of Access to Scientific Knowledge to pass all research and data to the CSD (subject to issues of national security, defence, and trade secrets), if limited to use by the CSD for its objectives of coordinating standards of peer review and replicability and assisting other WA bodies in their research, could be justified. However, we find the requirement for all such received research and data to be published to be very concerning. This requirement could undermine the goals of Access to Scientific Knowledge by discouraging participation in research for fear of such publication and potentially opens a vast amount of deeply private information to exploitation by malign interests.

For the above reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote For the General Assembly Resolution at vote, Repeal: "Access to Scientific Knowledge".

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