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An AI-ready, data engineering playbook for FAIR Integration in EOSC and beyond: CDIF4EOSC Workshop, London, Friday 9 October, in person registration open

Asha — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:08:53 +0000

In person registration is open for this informative and interactive workshop about the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) and the CDIF4EOSC project. The workshop is being held as an RDA 27th Plenary Meeting Co-located Event.

Register here to attend in person: https://forms.gle/CSmL6kcxJerWPPuV7
Date: Friday, 9th October 2026
Time: 09:30-16:00 BST
Location: The Long Room, Kia Oval Cricket Ground
Format: In person (hybrid access being explored, but not yet confirmed)

Details: The distinct approach of the CDIF4EOSC project is to build on the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF). The project will extend the CDIF recommendations, adding profiles and guidelines, and use case based examples, to form a comprehensive and actionable playbook for FAIR Integration in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and beyond.

Working with three Use Cases on ocean sciences, climate adaptation and safe-and-sustainable by design materials development, develop a suite of AI-assisted FAIRification tools and services and ensure integration with the EOSC Federation, EOSC Nodes and the Common European Data Spaces. There will also be implementations and partnerships beyond Europe, including with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).

This event will showcase the project and its approach, including CDIF tutorials and interactive sessions on key CDIF components and activities, including: integration with federated research infrastructures, development pathways for CDIF tools and services, AI-readiness, intelligently-managed access rights, data quality and provenance.

The CDIF4EOSC Use Cases will discuss their requirements and there will be presentations on CDIF implementations in a range of research areas.

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Read Now – August 2026: Publications in the Data Science Journal

Asha — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:43:22 +0000

	Title: Data Management Challenges for Translational Agricultural Research in West Africa: The Case of the Crops Research Institute, Ghana Author: Joyce Koranteng-Acquah, Sabina Leonelli URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-035
	Title: VESA: A Visualization-Enabled Search Application for Exploratory Dataset Discovery Author: Pawandeep Kaur Betz, Tobias Hecking, Hudaif Mohammad Malikathazham, Andreas Gerndt URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-034
	Title: Designing Repository-Level Evaluation Criteria: A Data Stewardship Framework for Research Data Repositories Author: Sooyeon Han, Suntae Kim, JongGyu Han, Juseop Kim URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-033
	Title: Indigenous Governance of Data Held by Organisations: How to Operationalise Indigenous Data Sovereignty Principles in Australia Author: Cassandra Sedran-Price, Riley Taitingfong, Rose Barrowcliffe, Jacob Prehn, Maggie Walter, Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews, Raymond Lovett URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-032
	Title: Navigating Gaps in Governance and Capacity for Equitable and Responsible Data Sharing in Health Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Literature Review Author: Pamela Andanda, Johannes Machinya, Takudzwa Mutomba, Larisha Bedhesi URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-031
	Title: A Semantic Web Model for Standardizing FAIR Metrics and Assessment Results Author: Robert Huber URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-030
	Title: The JARDIN Hackathon to Seek Solutions to Overcome Technical Barriers in Health Data Exchange: From the Point of Care to European Registry Networks Author: César Bernabé, Daphne Wijnbergen, Alberto Cámara, Karolis Cremers, Margarida Magalhães, Daniela Vicentini Albring, Sergi Aguiló-Castillo, Kalia Orphanou, Stella Tamana, Maria Xenophontos, Laura Menotti, Mirco Cazzaro, Ornella Irrera, Joëlle Thonnard, Sander van Boom, Iris C. M. Pelsma, Annika Jacobsen, Andrew Gibson, Veronica Popa, Mark Wilkinson, Marco Roos URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-029
	Title: Persistent Identifiers in Germany: Key Findings of a Nationwide Survey Author: Andreas Czerniak, Steffi Genderjahn, Paul Vierkant, Stephanie Hagemann-Wilholt, Nina Schönfelder, Antonia C. Schrader, Frauke Ziedorn, Barbara K. Fischer, Dirk Pieper, Marc Lange Download URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-028

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Webinar: Bringing Data Sovereignty into Participatory Sciences

Asha — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:59:46 +0000

Wednesday 9 September at 19:00 UTC / 21:00 CEST / 3:00pm EDT (UTC -4)

The IDEAL program at the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network invites you to a webinar on Bringing Data Sovereignty into Participatory Sciences. Anna Woodroof, a researcher and program manager at IDEAL, will facilitate a conversation with Hali Dardar, a Houma scholar who created the Uke’ Contracting System for data sovereignty in the context of oral histories. We’ll also hear from Kurt Naquin, a Houma scholar, writer, and community-engaged researcher, and Caren Cooper, director of IDEAL and professor of public science. We will discuss data sovereignty and what might be possible by adapting the Uke’ system to the context of participatory science projects. We’ll explore what it could mean for individuals to retain ownership and control of their data while sharing those data with participatory projects for use and re-use. Registration is required. The guests will speak English. Live interpretation into Spanish and Portuguese will be available. Questions? Contact IDEAL@ncejn.org

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Read Now – Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: August 2026 Edition

Asha — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:51:40 +0000

A data engineering approach to tracking global climate resilience

What counts as a climate-resilient road? One country might build to withstand a 1-in-50-year flood, another a 1-in-100-year flood, and both report against the same indicator. COP30 in Belém adopted 59 indicators for the Global Goal on Adaptation. Bapon Fakhruddin of the Green Climate Fund and Matti Heikkurinen of CODATA warn that figures which look comparable often are not. Their answer is not a single global standard but the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework, which acts as a translator between existing sectoral standards, so communities need not change how they collect data. Building it in from the outset costs far less than retrofitting it and decides whether the Global Stocktake measures genuine progress or merely records the attempt to describe it.

Energy strategy: The path for a prosperous, sustainable future

New Zealand’s electricity supply still turns on how much rain reaches a handful of South Island hydro lakes, and dry years keep exposing how little affordable firming sits behind them. Dr Tim Fisher, Group Managing Director of Tonkin + Taylor, argues the country lacks an energy strategy durable enough to survive successive electoral cycles. The cost is mounting: electricity is 65% more expensive than when the retail market opened in 1999, and project delays have cost NZ$11.8 billion over 25 years. Getting it right could add NZ$22 billion a year to GDP by 2035. Fisher calls for distributed renewable generation, a mandatory firming and flexibility market, gas transition planning, and security of supply that accounts for natural hazards and ageing grid assets.

Climate change is driving widespread marine heat waves across the globe

The largest marine heatwave currently on record covers 63 million square kilometres of the Pacific, roughly 17% of the world’s ocean surface, and climate change is responsible for an estimated 86% of it. It is far from alone. Climate Central finds every major ocean basin running unusually warm: 82.9% of the Mediterranean is under marine heatwave conditions, with parts of the western basin 5-6°C above normal. Those conditions also extend across 39.7% of the Gulf of Mexico, 33% of the Indian Ocean and 23.3% of the Atlantic. Some North Pacific hotspots have now persisted beyond 180 consecutive days. Marine heatwaves are no longer discrete events to be waited out, but a background condition the ocean is increasingly held in.

Droughts: Europe’s economy is paying the price, €439 billion already lost while the damage almost doubles with +2°C

Drought is usually costed as an agricultural problem. Research from the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) and Politecnico di Milano suggests that is where the damage starts, not where it ends. The 2015-2018 European drought cost €439 billion, cutting EU-27 and UK GDP per capita growth by 2.72 percentage points, reducing investment by over 12% and leaving 5.8 million jobs uncreated. Critically, the largest losses accumulated over the following six years: agriculture absorbs the initial hit but recovers within a couple of years, while manufacturing and construction keep losing ground long afterwards. At 2°C of warming the same event would cost close to €760 billion, with Spain’s GDP loss rising from 2.2 to 7.7 percentage points.

Japan’s earthquake shows extreme heat can turn one disaster into two

When an earthquake struck Kumamoto in late July, the response unfolded in temperatures that climbed into the high 30s and, in places, hit 40°C for the first time on record. At least 38 people died in the quake; some 7,000 sheltered across 130 evacuation centres with water and power disrupted, and one older woman died of heatstroke while sheltering in her car. Glenn McGregor argues this is a compound event, in which heat acts as a disaster risk multiplier, raising heatstroke risk among evacuees while degrading responders’ physical performance. The comparison is instructive: the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake struck in mild April conditions. The climate a disaster lands in is becoming as consequential as the hazard itself.

Acting before the crisis: The Colombian Red Cross is combining science and anticipation in its response to the El Niño phenomenon

Colombia’s first fully implemented Early Action Protocol did not wait for the drought to arrive. When forecasts from national hydrology and meteorology institute IDEAM showed a greater than 50% probability of below-normal rainfall from June to August, and a Standardised Precipitation Index at or below -1.4, the trigger was met. The Colombian Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) released funds ahead of impact. Some 2,400 people across Tolima and Cesar are being reached: water-retention soil additives for 600 people to stretch irrigation, livestock supplements to prevent deaths during pasture shortages, cash transfers for 900 people without bank accounts, and a community water treatment plant producing 30,000 litres a day. Financed through the anticipatory pillar of the IFRC’s Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF), it shows drought response can be pre-agreed and science triggered.

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A data engineering approach to tracking global climate resilience

Asha — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:29:25 +0000

An article illustrating the importance and benefits of the data engineering approach recommended by the WorldFAIR Policy Brief, was published on 19th August 2026 on the UNDRR’s PreventionWeb site.

‘A data engineering approach to tracking global climate resilience’ outlines the challenges related to developing consistent, efficient, and accurate methods for assessing the Belém indicators (adopted at the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference in November 2025) for measuring progress towards climate resilience. Also described are how the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF), the CDIF4EOSC project and other tools and methods supported by CODATA can help realise meet these challenges.

The article was written by Bapon Fakhruddin, co-chair of the CODATA FAIR Data for Disaster Risk Research Task Group, with input from Matti Heikkurinen, CODATA Project Portfolio Manager.

The adoption of 59 indicators for the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) at the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém represents a significant development in measuring climate adaptation. After a decade in which international commitments were expressed largely through general formulations such as “enhancing resilience” and “reducing vulnerability”, Parties now have a defined set of measurable dimensions. These include water stress, crop yields, health system readiness, infrastructure resilience, and the protection of cultural heritage.

However, the value of any such indicator set depends entirely on whether the reporting entities measure the same phenomena using comparable methods. That condition is not yet satisfied, and meeting it constitutes the substantive work now ahead.

Adaptation is not a single dataset. It comprises numerous distinct data holdings distributed across national hydrological and meteorological services (NHMSs), sectoral ministries, national disaster management authorities (NDMAs), utilities, environmental and biodiversity monitoring programmes, and, of particular importance, the accumulated knowledge of local communities that have adapted to their environments over generations.

Each of these sources operates within its own technical conventions. For example, one country may define a “climate-resilient road” as a road designed to withstand a 1-in-50-year flood, while another may use a 1-in-100-year standard. As a result, data that appear similar may not be directly comparable unless the definitions, units, and evidence requirements are clearly documented. […]

Read more on PreventionWeb.

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Read Now – July 2026: Publications in the Data Science Journal

Asha — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:23:30 +0000

	Title: Automated Retrieval and Analysis of Finnish Cultural Metadata with finna Author: Akewak Jeba, Julia Matveeva, Leo Lahti URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-027
	Title: Insects in the Mail, a Quantitative Analysis of Charles Robertson’s Scientific Correspondence Author: Sandi Caldrone, Marcella Lees, Bethany G. Anderson URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-026
	Title: Work Plans: A Tool for Suggesting Implementation Strategies to Improve the FAIRness of Data Repositories Author: Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich, Ismael Kherroubi Garcia, Christopher Erdmann, Julianne Christopher, Lisa M. Mayer, Darya Pokutnaya, Christine R. Kirkpatrick URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-025
	Title: A Structured Examination of Reproducibility: A Case Study for HTS Using the PRIMAD Model and BioCompute Object Author: Meznah Aloqalaa, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Carole Goble URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-024
	Title: MatSci-YAMZ: Integrating Human and Artificial Intelligence Vocabulary Author: Scott McClellan, Addison Ireland, Colton Gerber, Joel Pepper, Christopher B. Rauch, Mat Kelly, John Kunze, Jane Greenberg URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-023
	Title: Indigenous Data Governance – Laying the Groundwork for a Broader Dialogue in the Aftermath of Truth and Reconciliation Committees in Sápmi Author: Susanna Ragnhild A. Siri, Sara Elle Gaup, Trond Trosterud, Sjur Nøstebø Moshagen, Christina Storm Mienna, Ann Ragnhild Broderstad, Máret J. Heatta, Eva Josefsen, Else Grete Broderstad, Rauna Kuokkanen, Per Axelsson URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-022

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Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: Jul 2026 Edition

Asha — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:50:22 +0000

Release of the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) Version 1.1

The Committee on Data (CODATA) has released Version 1.1 of the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF), a practical framework that enables organisations across sectors to share and combine data without manual translation. Resulting from two years of implementation and development, including a disaster preparedness initiative in Malawi and implementation in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) climate adaptation project (Climate-Adapt4EOSC), the release strengthens FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data sharing. New features include standardised core data fields, improved packaging tools, and a developer toolkit, with future updates planned to enhance data quality, semantic mapping, and support for complex data and software resources.

Climate risk and disclosure in ports: Lessons from New Zealand and Australia

Climate risk and disclosure in ports: Lessons from New Zealand and Australia
Ports sit on the front line of climate risk, and increasingly on the front line of climate disclosure too. Drawing on a webinar with Lyttelton Port Company, Flinders Port Holdings and Tonkin + Taylor, this article shows how leading ports are turning mandatory climate reporting from a compliance chore into a strategic advantage: sharpening governance, informing investment decisions and building resilience across operations. As reporting regimes mature on both sides of the Tasman, the ports getting ahead are the ones treating disclosure as navigation, not paperwork.
Watch the webinar

Climate adaptation, governance gaps and the future of Europe’s coastal fisheries

The fish are moving; the rules aren’t keeping up. As warming waters push species into new territories, Europe’s fisheries governance, built for a stable ocean, is struggling to adapt. Using the North Sea brown shrimp fishery as a case study, this article makes the case for adaptive governance and climate services such as early warning systems and decision-support tools, so coastal communities can manage change proactively rather than react to it.

Mapping Africa’s changing coastline

Sea-level rise is not uniform, and for Africa’s coastal communities the local details matter. A new interactive platform combines more than a century of data with future climate projections to show how land subsidence, ocean warming and melting ice sheets shape flood risk from one location to the next. The aim is to give governments the site-specific evidence to decide where to strengthen defences, where to build resilience, and where managed relocation may be the wiser path.

Ocean warming, marine heatwaves and sea-level rise pose increasing risk in South-West Pacific region

2025 was the South-West Pacific’s second warmest year on record (behind 2024), and the ocean is bearing the brunt. A new World Meteorological Organization report documents widespread marine heatwaves driving coral bleaching, fisheries disruption and biodiversity loss, alongside the destruction wrought in Indonesia and Malaysia by Cyclone Senyar. Most striking of all: Indonesia’s last tropical glacier could vanish by 2027. The report calls for urgent strengthening of early warning systems, climate services and coordinated adaptation across the region.

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Crafting Participatory Tech Futures Online Workshops, 20 and 23 July!

Asha — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:16:16 +0000

We would like to draw your attention to the Crafting Participatory Tech Futures Online Workshops which will be taking place on 20 and 23 July.

20 July, online (08:30-10:30 UTC): https://luma.com/1aa12iaw
23 July, online (16:30-18:30 UTC): https://luma.com/f30v8m09

These are interactive, online workshops led by the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN), and invite civil society, academia and non-profits to affirm imagination as a collective practice.

What if AI futures were not something delivered to us, but something we could deliberate, contest, and build together? What if diverse publics could gather to imagine technological futures grounded in real societal and ecological needs, and chart practical pathways toward them?

The workshops invite participants to affirm imagination as a collective practice. Through participatory world-building, we will move beyond abstract optimism or dystopian critique, and instead co-define actionable, justice-oriented AI futures.

Discovery: Discover futures thinking as a critical practice that examines how imagined futures shape present decisions, power structures, and technological trajectories.

Encounters: Through dialogue and reflection, collaboratively articulate future scenarios that feel socially, environmentally, and politically meaningful. Rather than tightly scripted facilitation, this phase encourages emergent conversation, prioritizing story-telling over theory.

Crafting: Tell new stories and potential journeys that link the diverse futures that you imagined together.

Workshop participants will be invited to contribute to a report with learnings from this workshop and its other three iterations.

The workshop is run as a collaboration between the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN.ngo) and Our AI Collective. It is the third of a series that began at the Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT) conference, and London Data Week.

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OntoPortal Workshop 2026: Exploring Semantic Technologies for Interoperable and FAIR Data

Asha — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:37:19 +0000

The CDIF4EOSC, CDIF, CODATA and wider data stewardship communities are invited to participate in the public online session of the OntoPortal Workshop 2026, which will take place on 23 September 2026 from 14:00 to 17:00 CEST.

Register here!

The event is organised as part of the 5th OntoPortal Alliance Workshop, hosted by the Observatoire de Paris and coordinated by the OntoPortal-Astro team. It will bring together members of the OntoPortal Alliance, semantic technology experts, research infrastructures and data management practitioners to discuss recent developments and future directions in semantic interoperability.

About the OntoPortal Alliance

The OntoPortal Alliance is an international consortium of research and infrastructure organisations that collaboratively develop and maintain the open-source OntoPortal software. The Alliance supports a growing ecosystem of semantic artefact catalogues and ontology repositories, including initiatives such as BioPortal, AgroPortal, EarthPortal, EcoPortal, BiodivPortal and OntoPortal-Astro.

These platforms play an important role in facilitating the discovery, management and reuse of ontologies, vocabularies, terminologies and other semantic artefacts that support FAIR and interoperable research data.

Public Session Programme

The online public session will provide an overview of the OntoPortal ecosystem and its applications across research domains.

The draft programme includes:

Introduction to OntoPortal and community Q&A (40 min)
Panel discussion
- OntoPortal and research infrastructures
- OntoPortal and data spaces
- OntoPortal and artificial intelligence
- OntoPortal and you
Hands-on tutorial session

The event is open to anyone interested in semantic interoperability, ontology repositories, FAIR semantic artefacts and research data integration.

Relevance for CDIF4EOSC

The topics addressed during the workshop are highly relevant to the objectives of CDIF4EOSC, which aims to advance cross-domain interoperability within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Semantic artefacts, ontologies and metadata frameworks are essential building blocks for enabling machine-actionable interoperability across disciplines, infrastructures and data spaces. Within CDIF4EOSC, partners are exploring how these resources can support the development of more interoperable, reusable and FAIR research data ecosystems.

In particular, INRAE, a partner in the CDIF4EOSC project and a key contributor to AgroPortal, brings extensive expertise in semantic technologies, metadata management and interoperability frameworks. These activities contribute to broader efforts aimed at improving data integration and supporting collaboration across scientific domains.

The workshop therefore represents an opportunity for researchers, data stewards, infrastructure providers and interoperability experts to exchange knowledge, discover current developments and engage with a growing international community working on semantic solutions for open science.

Registration

Participation in the public session is free of charge, but registration is required.

After registration, participants will automatically receive the Zoom connection details by email.

For further information about the workshop or participation opportunities, interested individuals may contact:

Clément Jonquet (INRAE / University of Montpellier)
clement.jonquet@inrae.fr

We encourage members of the CDIF4EOSC community and stakeholders interested in semantic interoperability, FAIR data and EOSC-related developments to take part in this event.

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Data policies for times of crisis: Enabling open science for coordinated response, UNESCO Global IDSSD Conference

Asha — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:11:24 +0000

The UNESCO-CODATA WG on Data Policy for Times of Crisis invites participation in a session as part of the 2026 Global Conference of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (IDSSD), 15-17 July 2026.

The session on Data policies for times of crisis: Enabling open science for coordinated response will take place in Room XI and online, on Friday 17 July at 12:30-13:45 UTC / 14:30-15:45 CEST (Local Time Paris)

Register to attend the Data Policities for Times of Crisis (DPTC) online!

Register to attend in person and to attend the Global Conference https://indico.un.org/event/1021402/

Data policies for times of crisis: Enabling open science for coordinated response

As crises become increasingly complex, interconnected, and transboundary, timely access to trustworthy data is essential for effective preparedness, response, and recovery. This event presents findings from the first global UNESCO-CODATA survey on the implementation of Data Policies for Times of Crisis (DPTC) facilitated by Open Science.

Drawing on experiences from organizations across sectors and regions, the session examines how open science principles are being applied to crisis data governance, identifies implementation challenges and good practices, and explores opportunities to strengthen responsible, interoperable, and coordinated data sharing in support of sustainable development and resilience.

Background and Objectives

The growing frequency and complexity of global crises, including public health emergencies, natural hazards, climate-related events, and humanitarian crises have highlighted the critical importance of timely, reliable, and interoperable data. Effective crisis response depends on the ability of institutions to share, access, and use data across sectors and borders while ensuring ethical safeguards, accountability, security, and respect for human rights.

To support these efforts, UNESCO, in collaboration with the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA), developed the Data Policies for Times of Crisis (DPTC) facilitated by Open Science resources, launched in 2025 as part of the UNESCO Open Science Toolkit. Grounded in the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science and aligned with internationally recognized principles such as FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), CARE (Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, Ethics), and TRUST (Transparency, Responsibility, User focus, Sustainability, Technology), the DPTC Toolkit provides practical guidance to governments, research institutions, UN agencies, civil protection authorities, and other stakeholders seeking to strengthen crisis data governance.

The event is hosted as a thematic session of the 2026 Global Conference of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development. It will present findings from a global UNESCO-CODATA survey conducted between March and June 2026, assessing how organizations are implementing data policies for times of crisis and applying open science principles in operational contexts. By examining current practices, implementation gaps, and emerging needs, the session will contribute to ongoing efforts to strengthen science-informed crisis preparedness and resilience worldwide.

The session has three objectives:

Present the findings of the first global UNESCO-CODATA survey on the implementation of data policies for times of crisis.
Facilitate dialogue among policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and international organizations on challenges and opportunities in crisis data governance.
Identify priorities for strengthening responsible, ethical, and coordinated data sharing through open science approaches in support of crisis preparedness, response, and recovery.

Agenda

Please consult the agenda linked here

Expected Outcomes

The event is expected to produce the following outcomes:

Increased awareness of the role of open science in enabling responsible and effective data governance during times of crisis.
Dissemination of findings from the first global UNESCO-CODATA survey, providing evidence on current practices, challenges, and opportunities related to crisis data governance.
Enhanced dialogue among policymakers, researchers, international organizations, and practitioners on strengthening institutional preparedness through open science-enabled data policies.
Identification of priority areas for future capacity-building, policy development, and pilot implementation activities related to the DPTC Toolkit.
Strengthened collaboration among stakeholders working to advance ethical, interoperable, and coordinated data sharing for crisis preparedness, response, and recovery.

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