CODATA Elections 2014
The slate of candidates for the 2014 election at the General Assembly is now available, linked here and listed below, as is the full collection of nomination forms and candidacies. We are fortunate to have a range of very strong candidates for all the positions available and there are no fewer than 16 candidates for the 8 places as Ordinary Members.
Further information about candidates, in the form of short statements will appear on the CODATA Blog, and linked below, in the build up to the 2014 General Assembly, New Delhi, 6-7 November.
President (one position available)
- Geoffrey Boulton, UK: ‘Science in a Data-Intensive Age’, statement in support of candidacy as CODATA President (PDF) and on the CODATA Blog
- Takashi Gojobori, Japan: ‘Towards CODATA Initiatives for Data-centric Sciences and Technologies for “Big Data” and “Small Data”, statement in support of candidacy as CODATA President (PDF) and on the CODATA Blog
Vice-President (two positions available)
- Niv Ahituv, Israel, statement in support of candidacy
- Takashi Gojobori, Japan, statement in support of candidacy
Ordinary Executive Committee Members (eight positions available)
- Niv Ahituv, Israel, statement in support of candidacy
- Toshihiro Ashino, Japan, statement in support of candidacy
- Bonnie Carroll, USA, statement in support of candidacy
- Tim Dye, USA, IUAER (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences), statement in support of candidacy
- Anil Kumar, India, statement in support of candidacy
- Paul Laughton, South Africa, statement in support of candidacy
- DT Lee, China: Taipei, statement in support of candidacy
- Li Jianhui, China, statement in support of candidacy
- Kassim Mwitondi, UK, OCTOPUS Task Group, statement in support of candidacy
- David Patterson, Ireland, IUBS (International Union of Biological Sciences), statement in support of candidacy
- Alena Rybkina, Russia, statement in support of candidacy
- Claudio Soares, Portugal, IUPAB (International Union of Pure and Applied Biology), statement in support of candidacy
- Sanna Sorvari, Finland, statement in support of candidacy
- Mark Thorley, UK, statement in support of candidacy
- Kostiantyn Yefremov, Ukraine, statement in support of candidacy
- Mary Zborowski, Canada, statement in support of candidacy