GEO Work Programme 2016 WGISS#40 HARWELL (UKSA) 28 SEP - 02 OCT 2015 MIRKO ALBANI, ESA

GEO Work Programme Framework

Work Programme Structure 1.GEO Foundational Tasks 2.GEO Flagships 3.GEO Initiatives 4.GEO Community activities 5.Resources summary Implementation Mechanisms

GEO Work Programme - Implementation mechanisms (1) GEO Community Activities : allow stakeholders to cooperate flexibly in a bottom-up fashion and with a low initiation cost. GEO Community Activities may define user needs, explore or demonstrate technical possibilities or agree on specific protocols. GEO Initiatives : develop and implement prototype services according to GEO priorities. They allow Members and Participating Organizations to coordinate their actions and contributions towards a common objective within an agreed, yet flexible framework. GEO Initiatives may, for example, demonstrate the technical feasibility through pilot products or consolidate a user need.

GEO Work Programme - Implementation mechanisms (2) GEO Flagships: develop and implement pilot or pre-operational services according to GEO priorities. They allow Members and Participating Organizations to spin- up an operational service serving common needs. GEO Flagships may operate for as long as they are able to generate sufficient impact to attract support for their activities. Once they reach a mature, operational stage, they may be taken up by user institutions (e.g. GEO Participating Organizations), for their continued operation over the long term. GEO Foundational Tasks: enable GEO to implement selected, often enabling, tasks to achieve GEO Strategic Objectives and Targets. These include coordination actions, gap analyses, the implementation of technical elements for accessing GEOSS, and other routine operations of the GEO Secretariat.

GEO Work Programme - Deadlines August 24-31Finalize version v3 August 31Version 3.0 of Work Programme, send out to GEO Principals for review and confirmation of contributions (DEADLINE FOR REPLIES: 23 September) August 31 – September 20 Actively seeking lacking contributions for FT; Actively seeking additional contributions for Flagships / Initiatives Sept. 20 – 29Finalize version v4 September 29Distribute Version 4.0 of Work Programme, as a GEO-XII Plenary document; Until November 11Continue actively seeking contributions.

GEO Foundational Tasks Implements or supports GEO Core Function Clear relevance to Strategic Objectives Detailed description in Work Programme Resourced from GEO Trust Fund, Member- or PO- commitments Central to GEO‘s own activities Usually strong GEOSEC role Often in the „Advocate“ or „Engage“ Area of Action.  GEO Portal, Data Sharing Principles, Frequency Protection, …

GEO Foundational Tasks - GEOSS Development & CGI Ops

GEO Foundational Tasks - Community Development & Secretariat Ops

GEO Flagships Substantial, mature activity of global or regional scope; Aims to provide information service or product pre-operationally or as pilot; Flagship Implementation Plan Multi-national stakeholder group; Alignment with political priorities; Clear relevance to GEO’s Strategic Objectives.  GFOI, GEO-GLAM, GEO-BoN, …

GEO Flagships

GEO Initiatives Activity of global or regional scope; Aims to develop or demonstrate prototype information service or product; Implementation Plan, Multi-national stakeholder group, Clear relevance to GEO’s Strategic Objectives  Blue Planet, Cold Regions, Great Lakes, …

GEO Initiatives

GEO Community Activities Objective shared by a group of interested partners, Multi-national stakeholder group or scope, Relevance to GEO’s Strategic Objectives  Global Land Cover, Urban Observations, EO for Mineral Resources, …

GEO Community Activities

Key differences: Purpose FlagshipPilot or pre-operational service (common GEO priority) InitiativePrototype service (common GEO priority) Community Activity Test or demonstrate applications (shared interest of specific community Foundational Task Implement selected, often enabling functions

Key differences: Originator FlagshipMembers, Participating Organizations InitiativeMembers, Participating Organizations Community Activity GEO Community Foundational Task GEOSEC

Key differences: Steering and oversight FlagshipDedicated Steering Board InitiativeDedicated Steering Board Community Activity Foundational Task GEO Programme Board

Key differences: Reporting to GEO FlagshipCoordinator InitiativeCoordinator Community Activity GEOSEC to best knowledge Foundational Task GEOSEC Mandatory Contributions to GEO Activities Report

Work Programmes Generally 3-year Work Programmes Work Programme 2016 (transitional) Work Programme Work Programme Work Programme

WGISS Contribution to GEO Workplan 2016 Actions: 1)Review GEO 2016 workplan activities to identify possible contributions from WGISS (e.g. Data Stewardship Best Practices, Data Discovery/Access systems, Technology, Water Portal, etc) –Target Date Mid October 2)Define contributions (schedule, effort, etc) and inform GEO Secretariat for updating Workplan –Target date End October, TBC with Osamu

What‘s new? GEO Work PlanGEO Work Programme Overview on ongoing activities Report on progress and plans Presents planned actions for adoption by Task and componentsby Implementation Mechanism GEO CommunityMember/PO interest, requirements for achieving GEO Targets, community wisdom List of Task participantsSpecified contributions by Plenaryby Plenary following Programme Board recommendation Prepared by GEOSEC community poll Prepared by GEOSEC with GEO Programme Board Nature Input Commitment Acceptance Process Structure