Current Calls For Public Consultation
We will selectively include calls for public consultation from multilateral agencies, governments, INGOs and other sources where there is a clear intersection with consent/assent. This might be obvious from the title of the draft guidance, regulations, etc., but more often, it will be a thematic area or topic – if properly addressed at all. If you would like to explore participation with our working group developing submissions for these calls, please contact us [david.r.curry@ge2p2global.org].
Global Consultation: First Draft Text of UNESCO Recommendation on Ethics of Neurotechnology
UNESCO – 10 June 2024, This survey remains available until 12 July 2024 (midnight Paris time)
Overview
UNESCO has embarked on a two-year process to elaborate the first global Recommendation on the ethics of neurotechnology. This Recommendation is expected to define shared values, principles, and ethical challenges as well as identify concrete policy actions to promote and strengthen an ethical development, deployment and use of neurotechnology worldwide.
The purpose of this questionnaire is to collect feedback from different actors bringing in different perspectives and points of views on the first version of a draft text of a Recommendation, elaborated by an Ad Hoc Expert Group (AHEG) during their first meeting at UNESCO HQ (Paris, 22-26 April 2024). This meeting will be followed by a second meeting (Paris, 26-30 August) to embed inputs received through a wide range of consultations, including inputs received through this online consultation.
Your participation will help enrich the first draft of the Recommendation with your views about how to harness the potential benefits of neurotechnology and mitigate the risks. The questionnaire is structured to provide you with the option to comment on the different parts of the text: definition and scope, approach, values principles and rights and policy actions.
To efficiently reply to this questionnaire, you are invited to consult the first draft of the Recommendation.]attached] For more information on UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Sector’s work on the Ethics of Neurotechnology, please visit our website.
Request for Information on Draft NIH Intramural Research Program Policy: Promoting Equity in Access Planning
Posted on May 21, 2024 Comments must be received by July 22, 2024
NIH is proposing to develop and implement a new policy within the NIH’s Intramural Research Program, the internal research arm of the agency. The policy would require organizations partnering with NIH through a patent licensing agreement that succeed in bringing certain products to market to submit a plan outlining steps they intend to take to promote patient access to any resulting drug, biologic, vaccine, or device. NIH seeks input on this draft policy and accompanying draft license agreement language that incorporates patient access in the commercialization process for NIH-owned inventions.
NIH will use the responses to this request for information to develop a final policy. Comments on the proposed policy must be submitted at: https://osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form-draft-nih-intramuralresearch-program-policy-promoting-equity-through-access-planning.
In addition, NIH will be hosting an informational webinar on the proposed policy on June 11, 2024. More information on the agenda and how to register will be provided shortly.
For additional context on the benefits of access planning, please see NIH’s 2023 Workshop on Transforming Discoveries into Products: Maximizing NIH’s Levers to Catalyze Technology Transfer. Questions may be sent to SciencePolicy@od.nih.gov.
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