social sciences for the last mile ... but ... --- Very much agreed with this comment, Veronica and Vid. This is worth emphasising: the level of adoption is not a technical matter. Yet, I would caution against 'confining' the contribution of social sciences to implementation. Just one example: understanding human behaviour needs to play a role in how we design technology - in particular digital devices and social media come to mind. In some case, bringing social science in at the 'implementation stage' is too late.

Source author: Katharina Höne KatharinaH@diplomacy.edu