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Uniting Earth Space and Environmental Science Data from the Global North and the Global South to make valuable contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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04 Dec 2019
Group(s) submitting the application: 
ESIP/RDA Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences IG
Meeting objectives: 

  1. Identify barriers to the Global South and Global North integrating ESES data infrastructures

  2. Explore how the Global North and Global South can unite to contribute ESES data to the SDGs, and participate in interdisciplinary collaborative science.

  3. Learn from the Global South about Earth, space and environmental science (ESES) research infrastructure initiatives in their countries and ensure that they are in the ESIP/RDA catalogue 

Meeting agenda: 

  1. 0-10 Minutes (10 minutes): Introduction

  2. 10-15 Minutes (5 minutes); Review the current status of the ESES IG (5 minutes), including the catalogue which contains both groups working within ESES, and those that include ESES as part of cross domain initiatives. Invite new additions, particularly from the Global South. 

  3. 15-45 Minutes (30 minutes): Provide 5-minute project presentations on Key ESES data infrastructures in the Global South. Speakers will be sought from Asia, Africa and South America

  4. 45-75 Minutes (30 minutes): Breakout sessions discussing:

    1. The barriers to integrating ESES datasets/data components from the Global South and the Global North

    2. Identifying projects that include partners from  the Global South and North that currently do work together as exemplars of what is possible.

  5. 75-85 Minutes (10 minutes): Report back

  6. 85-90 Minutes (5 minutes): Wrap up and next steps.

Target Audience: 

Our target audience includes participants and their organizations associated with ESES research projects and efforts, as well as users of ESES datasets in other domains anywhere in the world.  

We would like participants to help us determine: 

  1. What are the most important ESES global data integration projects and which are relevant to the UN SDGs;

  2. What are the challenges of interoperating between the Global North and the Global South - are they cultural, technical, logistical, financial?; and

  3. How do we ensure that the ESES-IG has active participating representatives from both the Global North and the Global South

We will welcome participation from other RDA WGs/IGs, particularly those from other discipline-focused WGs/IGs .

Brief introduction describing the activities and scope of the group: 

The Earth, space, and environmental science communities are developing, through multiple international efforts, both general and domain-specific leading practices for data management, infrastructure development, vocabularies, and common data/digital services. This Interest Group will work towards coordinating and harmonizing: 

  1. Efforts within the ESES to reduce possible duplication, increase efficiency, share use cases, and promote partnerships and adoption in the community; and

  2. Cross domain initiatives to accelerate the uptake of ESES data in other domains. 

Short Group Status: 

The group began as a BoF at Plenary 10 in Montreal in 2017 focussed around the US NSF funded EarthCube Project. At that meeting, it was recognised that there were many similar initiatives and projects in other continents and that these could be brought together under the umbrella of an RDA IG. The IG was formally endorsed by RDA in July 2018 and has been active at each plenary since Montreal. Here are the links to previous plenaries: 

14th RDA Plenary Helsinki IG meeting (October 2019): Globally Networking within ESES data infrastructures, as well as beyond to those of other domains https://www.rd-alliance.org/esiprda-eses-ig-globally-networking-within-eses-data-infrastructures-well-beyond-those-other-domains 

13th RDA Plenary Philadelphia IG Meeting (April 2019): Consolidating Global Connections and Collaborations https://rd-alliance.org/ig-esiprda-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences-rda-13th-plenary-meeting 

12th RDA Plenary Gaborone IG Meeting (November 2018):  Developing Global Connections and Collaborations, https://www.rd-alliance.org/ig-esiprda-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences-rda-12th-plenary-meeting 

11th RDA Plenary Berlin IG Meeting (March 2018): Inaugural Meeting, https://www.rd-alliance.org/ig-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences-rda-11th-plenary-meeting

10th RD-A Plenary Montreal BoF (September 2017): EarthCube International Partnerships, https://www.rd-alliance.org/earthcube-international-partnerships-rda-10th-plenary-bof-meeting

Type of Meeting: 
Working meeting
Additional links to informative material: 

  1. International Science Council, 2019. Advancing Science as a Public Good: Action Plan for 2019-2021 (https://council.science/ActionPlan in particular, pages 20-23).

  2. The United Nations Sustainability Development Goals https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/development-agenda/ 

  3. The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld 

Avoid conflict with the following group (1): 
Physical Samples and Collections in the Research Data Ecosystem IG
Avoid conflict with the following group (2): 
Data Versioning IG
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