As part of GEO Week, GEO Mountains Scientific Project Officer James Thornton will speak at Plenary Session 4: Bridging the Digital Divide with Data, Tools and Knowledge on 25 November from 12:00-14:00 CET.
This session will build on GEO’s longstanding efforts to promote full and open access to Earth observation data in accordance with GEOSS Data Sharing Principles, to empower GEO Members to use Earth observations for informed decision-making. Four GEO activities will serve as use cases to demonstrate the importance of ensuring all enabling conditions for achieving this vision – accelerated by the adoption of a culture of open knowledge through implementation of Data Sharing Principles (including links to FAIR and CARE) and Data Management Principles, achieving legal interoperability among data licenses used bymajor providers of open data, development of analysis-ready data, and producing results in a reproducible format. These use cases will also demonstrate good practice regarding insitu data sharing (substantiating Data WG’s insitu data strategy) and use of the GEO Knowledge Hub and cloud services as means of providing access to data, information, and knowledge across the world to bridge the digital divide and promote global equity.
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