AFRICAN DATA INFRASTRUCTURES & STAKEHOLDER FORUM

Under the umbrella of the All-Atlantic Cooperation for Ocean Research and Innovation (AANChOR-CSA) Project, the Data Infrastructures and Stakeholder’s Forum forms part of the implementation of the Joint Pilot Action for AANChOR’s Work Package 5 (Common Standards for Data and Information Sharing). AA-Data2030 stands for All-Atlantic Ocean Data Enterprise 2030. This is a side-event of The All-Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance 2022 Forum, co-hosted by the United States and Brazil, in collaboration with the European Commission, over two events between May and July 2022. More: https://allatlantic2022.com/

Objectives:

1. To showcase marine data infrastructures and operators in Africa to ensure their participation and inclusion in the All‑Atlantic Ocean Data Space (AAODS).
2. To support the development of a natural-, social- scientific and humanistic transatlantic ocean data space with historical, current and future ocean data.
3. To define a minimum set of ocean metadata standards and formats to be used by local, regional and national initiatives in the Atlantic basin.

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