Data-driven subnational decision-making in the Arctic: the standards of data applicability and understandability ...

• Main Authors: Tkach, Pavel, Stepien, Adam
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11548398; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11548398

This policy paper is about messages subnational policymakers, managers, and experts would like to convey to data and knowledge producers in the Arctic. The language of science and research, with its intricate and academic terminology, is yielding to the language of everyday communication. This phenomenon is not a reflection of the literacy level of policymakers in the Arctic but rather the result of municipal managers’ inability to spare additional time to use dictionaries or seek assistance from scientific institutions in interpreting the incoming data and knowledge. Consequently, overly technical reports, with an abundance of numbers and formulas, inhibit the decision-making processes and contribute to the need for additional work for municipal managers, who are tasked with translating data and scientific reports to fit requirements for policymakers. Moreover, the scope of work of municipal managers also includes ongoing communication with policymakers,necessitating their understanding of not only the ...