The 25th Session of the Assembly adopted a Resolution on IODE (responding to the report and recommendations of IODE-XX) as well as on the cooperation between IOC and OBIS.
In the Resolution on IODE the Assembly adopted the Report of IODE-XX and the recommendations included therein. Special reference was made to the Ocean Data Standards
Pilot Project, the IODE Ocean Data Portal project and the close cooperation in JCOMM. The Assembly also requested all IOC programmes to actively collaborate with, and make use of, the
Ocean Data and Information Networks (ODINs) as a common platform for
capacity development in developing regions, as well as with the
OceanTeacher Academy project which aims at providing a comprehensive
curriculum of training courses related to ocean data and information
management for all IOC Member States.
Regarding the cooperation with OBIS, the Assembly decided to accept OBIS within the IODE
Programme. It requested the IOC Executive Secretary to undertake the administrative arrangements necessary for OBIS
activities to continue under the auspices of IOC and its IODE Programme, to set up a multi-source fund within the IOC Trust Fund, to investigate and establish cooperation with, and support from
relevant research organizations, marine research stations, networks and
other stakeholders, to take the necessary actions for the creation of an extra-budgetary OBIS Programme Officer position, to explore a formal agreement for the hosting of an IOC Programme
Office for OBIS with the current host institution of the OBIS
Secretariat at Rutgers University, NJ, USA, to draft terms of
reference for an OBIS Group of Experts, to be established under IODE as well as revise the terms of reference of IODE, and to report on progress on these matters to the next Session of the IOC Executive Council in 2010. The Assembly further urged Member States to contribute to the OBIS multi-source fund within the IOC Trust Fund, to consider other financial and/or in-kind support for OBIS to assist with its technical and research activities, and to facilitate the collaboration of RONs and other OBIS data
providers in the intergovernmental framework of IOC and its IODE
Programme.
More information on the decisions of the Assembly are available HERE
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