Call for Expressions of Interest: Membership on the Ocean Decade Data Coordination Platform External

Call Overview

Call Category: Collaboration

Contact: Terry McConnell
Email: t.mcconnell [at] unesco.org
Opening: October 12, 2021
Closing: October 29, 2021

Nominations for membership in the Ocean Decade Data Coordination Group will close on Friday, October 29th at 11:00 PM Universal Time.

The Data Coordination Platform will have two components:

  • The Ocean Decade Data Coordination Group: this group will be focused on strategic exchange and coordination between key actors – including data generators, managers and users in the ocean data and information domain.  It will provide guidance and instructions to the Ocean Decade Data Technical Implementation Coordination Group. 
  • The Ocean Decade Data Technical Implementation Coordination Group: this group will be focused on technical collaboration to develop the technical elements required to build the “digital data ecosystem” foreseen under the Ocean Decade.

A first Meeting of the Ocean Decade Data Coordination Platform group is tentatively scheduled for the late November – early December 2021.

Representatives of international or regional entities with strategic planning and implementation responsibility for the generation or management of ocean data and information systems and services, as well as representatives of user communities of data and information products and services, are particularly encouraged to apply.