APAN and CODATA organised a webinar on 26th November to showcase the impact of the MoU between the two organisations announced on 20th November. This webinar will present the goals and activities of the two organisations and illustrate approaches to realising synergies between them.
The webinar discussed the history of the collaboration, as well as the groups and activities identified as ideal candidates for further joint initiatives. These topics range from advanced data semantics and interoperability to best practices for bringing science to support societal resilience and SDGs. The webinar will showcase this potential through case studies of joint activities: Citizen Science and Disaster Risk Reduction and Mitigation.
The speakers included:
- Markus Buchhorn, Advisor to the APAN board
- Matti Heikkurinen, Project Portfolio Manager at CODATA
- Veerachai Tanpipat, Agriculture and Open and Sharing WGs, Hydro-Informatics Institute (HII) and ThaiREN
- Eric Yen, Cloud WG / ISGC, Academia Sinica Grid Computing Center (ASGC) Taiwan
- Franz de Leon, Disaster Mitigation WG, Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI), Philippines
The recording of the event is now available on Vimeo, and slides are available for download!
Detailed agenda:
| Topic | Speakers | Time |
| Launch of the APAN-CODATA collaboration | ||
| Introducing APAN and CODATA, the MoU background and goals | APAN: Markus Buchhorn, Advisor to the APAN board
CODATA: Matti Heikkurinen, Project Portfolio Manager at CODATA |
11.00 – 11.15 UTC |
| Interoperability approaches and solutions | ||
| APAN working groups and topics | Eric Yen, Cloud WG / ISGC, Academia Sinica Grid Computing Center (ASGC) Taiwan
Franz de Leon, Disaster Mitigation WG, Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI), Philippines |
11.15-11.30 UTC |
| CODATA “Making data work” activities and solutions. | Matti Heikkurinen, Project Portfolio Manager at CODATA | 11.30-11.45 UTC |
| Case studies, examples, and future challenges | ||
| Citizen science data for the SDGs in Asia Pacific Case studies from the Agriculture, Open and Sharing WGs Open and FAIR air quality data as a foundation for responding to health crises |
Carolynne Hultquist, Director of Geospatial Data Science at the University of Canterbury and Co-chair of the CODATA Task Group on Citizen-Generated Data for the SDGs.
Veerachai Tanpipat, Agriculture and Open and Sharing WGs, Hydro-Informatics Institute (HII) and ThaiREN Núria Castell, Senior Scientist at NILU and co-chair of the CSGP Air Quality CoP |
11.45-12.15 UTC |
| Discussion, next steps | ||
| Q&A
APAN 61, ISGC other major events |
12.15-12.30 UTC | |