1. Session 3 Breakout Session GCI/DMP/DSP GEO Work Program Symposium Osamu Ochiai GEO Secretariat May Tshwane, SA

2. Agenda : 11.00-12.30 Introduction of session - GEO Secretariat
Current status of GCI - Joost van Bemmellen
GEOSS Evolutional Architecture (as GEOSS EVOLVE WP1 work) – Ivan Deloatch/Rich Frazier
GEOSS EVOLVE Vision document – Ivan DeLoatch/Max Craglia
Discussion and Summarise for WPS Plenary report - All

3. Session 3 Breakout
Strengthen alignment of Work Programme (WP) activities with “3+1” priority areas (SDGs, Climate, Disaster Risk Reduction) + AfriGEOSS.
Promote and enable collaborative interactions (“clustering”) among WP activities to achieve priorities of the Strategic Plan and/or reorient activities to respond to gaps and avoid overlaps.
Identify and set out approaches to address gaps in areas such as data, user engagement, and capacity building, and suggest new analytic approaches, and demonstrate current and evolving tools for deployment in the SBAs.
Serve as “capacity building effort” on major policy initiatives (including governments, UN agencies, private sector, NGOs).
Showcase GEO’s evolution to being more demand-driven through the visibility of Flagships and key Initiatives, and thus more clearly demonstrate the added value of GEO.

4. Session 3 Breakout
GCI/DSP/DMP: strategies to support 3 priority areas through GEOSS Common Infrastructure and Data Sharing/Management Principles (and GEOSS-EVOLVE Initiative).
Expected outcomes: inputs and recommendations to Programme Board for:
consolidation of WP activities in support of 3 priority areas;
new/realigned WP activities to address EO data and information, and user gaps identified in support of global policy initiatives;
improved monitoring of WP implementation to better inform PB, ExCom, and Plenary;
applications from relevant ISRSE-37 Sessions (GEO User Needs, SDGs, Innovative Infrastructures 4 EO.]

5. Some information on current status
Radio-frequency coordination
DSP/DMP
Recent GEO Data Providers Workshop held in Florence
GCI and User Interaction

6. Radio-frequency Coordination
“Identify and coordinate the necessary action for the protection of the radiofrequency bands necessary to ensure proper operation of EO instruments”:
to support , as appropriate, activity WMO Steering Group on Radio Frequency Coordination on preparation to ITU World Radiocommunication Conferences (WRC);
to increase awareness of GEO membership on importance of promote of GEO and WMO positions for WRC on national level in order to protect radiofrequency bands used by earth observation system;
to report harmful interference cases to ITU by means of national administrations or space agencies.

7. GEOSS Data Sharing Principles 2016-2025
data, metadata and products will be shared as Open Data by default, by making them available as part of the GEOSS Data Collection of Open Resources for Everyone (Data-CORE) without charge or restrictions on reuse, subject to the conditions of registration and attribution when the data are reused;
where international instruments, national policies or legislation preclude the sharing of data as Open Data, data should be made available with minimal restrictions on use and at no more than the cost of reproduction and distribution; and
all shared data, products and metadata will be made available with minimum time delay.
Changes from the Data Sharing Principles of last decade:
Sharing EO as open data by default = the GEO norm
Sharing with restrictions : perceived as an exception
Alignment with the International Open Data Charter
Refrains from imposing charges that exceed the cost of reproduction and distribution
For any purpose by anyone (last DSPs promote data sharing for non-commercial use)

8. GEOSS Data Sharing Principles Implementation Guidelines 2016-2025
Will be released for review in June!

9. Build cases on value of open EO data policies with socio-economic arguments
The trigger for policy change is in the hand of high level policy makers (minister, cabinet, parliament)
We need to build evidences to convince them.
We have strong cases from North America, Europe and Oceania.
(Elaborate a bit on the Landsat case.)
We have a report on the this topic
But lack cases from Africa, South America and Asia.
Ask for help from the audience
Your Cases!
Please find full report here

10. Monitor status and changes in EO data policies
Annual Information Request to
National Contact Points for Data Sharing
Basic information about the primary providers of EO data
Data policy relating to EO data
Details of national or agency EO data portals
Summary of EO data sharing activities in relation to GEO
National coordination mechanism for EO data sharing
Information on applications and use of shared EO data
Main barriers facing your country to achieve full open data sharing
Left figure: what is GEO curently doing
Right figure: a similar approach, but mang EO sectors are not included
This is the result of a survey on 14 national government agencies (quite a few EO agencies, metservice, hydrolgy, remote sensing, are not included) in 92 countries.
The general picture is that there still quite a few holes in Africa. But this is also the potential for big changes
We will build a similar map for EO data.
Change throughout years and accross the global is convincing.
Help us with information.
Credit: Open Data Barometer,

11. Data Management in the GCI?
The Secretariat is working with the DMP team on an operational DMP compliance checking process (parallel to administrative registration and technical registration by the data providers) in GCI.
Meaningful information for users on
data trustworthiness
Data Management
Principles

12. Data Management in GEO Flagships/Initiatives
Transparency, scalability & reliability
in products and services
An intial analysis of data sharing and management in GEO Flagships and Initiatives has been done by the Secretariat.
Only15% Flagships and Initiatives have sound data sharing and management plans
Sound data sharing and management plans in Flagships & Initiatives

13. GEO Data Providers Workshop
132 Registered from 93 different organizations
95 actual participants
Approx 40 New Organizations to GCI
Thanks to sponsors

14. Brief summary of Key outcomes of the workshop
Share more about GCI operations and success stories
Strong encouragement on use the GEOSS Common Infrastructure to secure data discoverability and accessibility across the world
Showcase of enhancement of the GEOSS Portal and GEO DAB and future of the GCI
Encouragement and examples on using GCI components such GEODAB APIs and GEOSS Portal widgets for GEO community portals.
Dialogue on key elements: Standards, Data Quality, GEOSS Data Management Principles
Agreement with data providers to implement Data Management Principles, towards better quality of the resources provided in a step approach
Enhanced communication on statistics to Data providers, through the establishment of dashboards
Learn about brokering process, how to contribute data and resources to the GCI
Data providers have applauded the simplification of the registration and brokering process with the inclusion of the Yellow pages
Data providers recognized that the process of being brokered provides a valuable service to the organization it self, improving quality as well visibility and recognizion

15. Brief summary of Key outcomes of the workshop
Break out session: discuss benefits and issues related to GCI
Benefits
Constraints and issues
Role of the private sector in GCI
Communication with the GCI Operations team
Enhance the use and applications of the GCI and resources
Launch of the call for applications to the Plenary in 2017 in Washington
Continue to develop the GEO Data Providers community
2018 GCI week meeting Data providers, Developers and users in ESA – Frascati, Italy.

16. Break Out sessions
Group Photo
And many more available on the web soon

17. How GCI is making a difference in Decision Making: GEO in Action
Call for Applications using GCI components to discover and access GEOSS Resources focusing on:
Sustainable Development Goals
Climate
Disaster
Presentation of applications at the GEO-XIV Plenary, Washington DC, October, 2017
Organizing a «GEO In Action» side event

19. Interaction with User Communities
GCI and SBA communities Virtual Meetings
One SBA per month
Interact with Flagships, Initiatives and Community Activities
Demonstrate GEOSS Portal
Feedback from SBAs