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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The 2016 CODATA General Assembly will be held on Sunday, 11 September 2016 at the <a href="http://www.internationaldataweek.org/content/venue" target="_blank"><span style="color:#3b663c;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel</span></a> in <b><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Denver, Colorado</span></b>. This year, the General Assembly precedes<a href="http://www.internationaldataweek.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#3b663c;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> International Data week</span></a> and which includes our conference <a href="http://www.scidatacon.org/2016/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#3b663c;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">SciDataCon 2016</span></a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:top"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:top"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Programme and Draft Agenda:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">An outline agenda indicating topics to be covered and activities<b><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:19.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#444444"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Report on CODATA activities since Nov 2014</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:19.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#444444"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">CODATA Financial Report</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:19.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#444444"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Vision, strategy and key activities for 2016-2018</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:19.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#444444"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="http://www.codata.org/news/110/62/Provision-List-of-Candidates-for-CODATA-Elections-Announced" target="_blank"><span style="color:#3b663c;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Election of CODATA Officers and Executive Committee</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:19.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#444444"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="http://www.codata.org/news/116/62/Call-for-CODATA-Task-Group-Proposals-2016-deadline-25-July-UPDATE" target="_blank"><span style="color:#3b663c;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Selection of CODATA Task Groups</span></a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:top"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial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