Hybrid (In-person & Virtual) 18-19 SEPTEMBER 2025 THE RIVERSIDE HOTEL, Duban, SOUTH AFRICA THEME: BUILDING TRUST, PROTECTION, AND ETHICS IN GLOBAL DATA: TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CAPE TOWN GLOBAL ACTION PLAN FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Trust in the integrity...
FAIR Digital Objects (FDO) are autonomous information units that virtually bind all information in a machine-actionable way that is required to make data FAIR, including various kinds of metadata and globally unique and resolvable persistent identifiers (PIDs). FDOs...
Title: A Comparative Analysis of Modeling Approaches for the Association of FAIR Digital Objects Operations Author: Nicolas Blumenröhr, Jana Böhm, Philipp Ost, Marco Kulüke, Peter Wittenburg, Christophe Blanchi, Sven Bingert, Ulrich Schwardmann URL:...
On 29 August, 14:00 - 15:00 (SAST, UTC+02:00) the CODATA South Africa National Committee is convening a webinar on Data Privacy in the Southern African Development Community (SADC): An appeal for unity. The distinguished speaker is Adv. Dirontsho Mohale, Chief...
August 26, 2025 Tsaone Swaabow Thapelo BOTSWANA NATIONAL CODATA COMITTEE From July 27 to August 16, 2025, I participated in two intensive, back-to-back pro-grams at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy: 1. the CODATA-RDA School for...
27 August 2025 Shaily Gandhi (Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at IT:U), Neema Sumari (Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania), and Felix Emeka Anyiam (University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria) This August 2025, the ICTP in Trieste, Italy, hosted a special edition of the...
27 August 2025 Shaily Gandhi (Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at IT:U), Neema Sumari (Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania), and Felix Emeka Anyiam (University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria) This August 2025, the ICTP in Trieste, Italy, hosted a special edition of the...
Natural disasters have cost us $162 billion this year. The first half of 2025 marks a new inflection point in the global climate risk landscape. According to leading professional services firm Aon, global insured losses from natural catastrophe events reached $100...
Pre-General Assembly Reporting and Briefing sessions Date: 2 October 2025 Two virtual sessions to address CODATA reporting and necessary briefing ahead of the General Assembly are being organised. The sessions, open to voting Delegates as well as Observers of CODATA...
In accordance with the CODATA constitution and on the basis of nominations received, the CODATA Nominating Committee, chaired by Professor Barend Mons, CODATA Past President, has prepared the following electoral slate which strikes a balance with regard to...