1. The GSO Activities and Report
Juan Bicarregui
STFC, Head of Data Division
RCUK, Chair of Data Policy subgroup
RDA, Co-chair of Organisational Advisory Board
GSO, UK representative on Data Working Group

2. Outline Mandate of the GSO Ministerial Communiqué, 2013
The 2015 GSO Report
Ministerial Communiqué, 2015

3. Mandate of the GSO (2008++)
Established at the G8 Ministerial meeting, Okinawa, 2008:
The Group of Senior Officials (GSO) on GRIs was established to:
provide a non-binding and open forum for policy exchanges on GRIs and to inform and improve international cooperation;
share information about existing and planned new RIs;
establish principles for the development of new partnerships and collaborations.

4. 2013 - G8 Ministerial Statement London, June 2013
Global Challenges
antimicrobial resistance
Global Research Infrastructure
Renewed mandate for GSO
Open Scientific Research Data
“…scientific research data should be open…”

5. The GSO report (Oct 2015) Policy Areas:
Mandates by the G8 Ministers
Framework for Research Infrastructures of Global Interest and related Questionnaire
Analysis of submitted projects
Policy Areas:
Promoting Access to Ris
Access to data and data management
Alignment of evaluation criteria and prioritisation processes
Life Cycle issues
Legal framework for GRIs
Examples of new initiatives of relevance to GSO
RDA
Future Actions for the GSO
New collaborations
Case studies
Annex: List of GRIs

6. 2015 - G7 Ministerial Statement Berlin Oct 2015,
Neglected tropical diseases
Future of the Seas and Oceans
Global Research Infrastructures (GRIs) “…
Further progress on sharing and managing scientific data and information should be achieved, especially by continuing engagement with community based activities such as the Research Data Alliance RDA.
We encourage the GSO to continue their work on convergence and alignment of inter-operable data management that could accomplish an effective open-data science environment at the G7 level and beyond.”
Clean Energy