TDWG Annual Meeting Outreach and Capacity Building Work Program Beatriz Torres October 2002, Indaiatuba, Brazil
Outreach (users and providers) Scientific community Conservation organizations General public Policy and decision makers
Outreach: Main components Develop strategies to increase awareness and gain visibility of GBIF (contributing to key thematic and highly visible events i.e. Convention on Biological Diversity, IUCN Protected Areas Congress). Plan to increase GBIF membership
Institutional Capacity Building Working with nodes to provide connectivity, sharing technologies, new developments,... Leverage (identification of other efforts) and forging of synergies. Capacity Building
Human Capacity Building Support to National Nodes Define best practices Identify institutional and human capacity building gaps Develop training courses for node development covering on i.e: (a) software packages, (b) standards and protocols (c) information management and networking
ECAT Support the production of regional checklists (facilitate agreements and MOUs, identify key partners and organizations) Assist ECAT efforts to populate databases (i.e. dissemination of standards and formats)
DIGITISATION Support elaboration of best practices handbook Assessment of training needs (2002) 2 pilot projects 2 training modules (staff and scientists) Training of trainers (2004)
DADI Develop ”proof of concept products” (i.e. demonstrative, useful and scalable pilots) Implement products Monitor usage and evaluate impact
Other key issues
Repatriation of data and information International community assigns great importance to this topic. Leading role to be played by GBIF (visibility and international recognition) Contribution to the implementation of CBD (Art on Exchange of information)
Repatriation … Within a framework of training and scientific and technical cooperation Facilitate scientific exchanges (i.e. between biodiversity- rich countries and large collection-based facilities). Development of agreements/MoUs Pilots to provide hands-on training and experience on digitization of collections and how to use the recently acquired data Analyze existing experiences and approaches (white paper) Small experts´ Workshop (Dec 2003)
Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) White paper(s) on i.e IPRs vis a vis data ownership, will explore existing experiences and approaches, … Experts´workshop (Dec. 2003)