<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">From 4-8 September 2017, the African Open Science Platform Project (in collaboration with CODATA and with the Madagascar Ministries of Environment, Ecology and Forests; of Higher Education and Research; of Posts, Telecommunications and Digital Development; and of the Economy and Planning) organised a series of workshops and meetings in Antananarivo, Madagascar. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">These included, on Monday 4 September, a High-level Meeting on Environmental and Scientific Open Data for Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries, hosted at the Prime Minister’s Residence and attended by 11 Ministers from the Madagascar government. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The report of this meeting - prepared by NOASILALAONOMENJANAHARY Ambinitsoa Lucie, National Focal Point of AfriGEOSS and Member of the AOSP Technical Advisory Board - <a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/High-Level-Report.pdf" class="">is now available here.</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The keynote presentation by Simon Hodson of CODATA and directing the AOSP project is available here (in French): <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/c7tdy7azqe7s668/17-09-04-MADAGASCAR%20OPEN%20SCIENCE%20HIGH%20LEVEL%20MEETING-FR.pptx.pdf?dl=0" class="">'La Science Ouverte et les Données ‘FAIR’ : Composants essentiels pour le développement durable dans un monde de données massives'</a></div><div class=""><div class="">
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text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Announcing <a href="http://www.codata.org/events/conferences/international-data-week-2018" class="">International Data Week 2018</a> 22-26 October, Gaborone, Botswana</b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><a href="http://codata2017.gcras.ru/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">CODATA 2017 International Conference, ‘Global Challenges and Data-Driven Research’</a>, Saint-Petersburg, 8-13 October, <b class=""><a href="http://codata2017.gcras.ru/data/conference/key_dates_document_1506952247319.pdf" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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See the CODATA Prospectus: Strategy and Achievement, 2015-2016 <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830" class="">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830</a><br class="">___________________________</div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dr Simon Hodson | Executive Director CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org" class="">http://www.codata.org</a><br class=""><br class="">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:simon@codata.org" class="">simon@codata.org</a> | Twitter: @simonhodson99 | Skype: simonhodson99<br class="">Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96 | Tel (Cell): +33 6 86 30 42 59<br class=""><br class="">CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Ina Smith <<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" class="">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Report from the Madagascar High-Level Meeting on Environmental & Scientific Data for Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">4 October 2017 at 12:44:13 CEST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"<a href="mailto:african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com" class="">african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com" class="">african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: GillSans; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">Dear all<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">The report from the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">High-Level Meeting on Environmental & Scientific Data for Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has been released.<b class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><span style="" class="">Thank you to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><strong class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; background-color: white; font-weight: normal;" class="">Mme NOASILALAONOMENJANAHARY Ambinintsoa Lucie and team for all the work in this regard. We wish our Madagascar colleagues lots of success in taking a policy for Madagascar Open Science/Open Data forward.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></strong></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; background-color: white; font-weight: normal;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></strong></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">Madagascar on the AOSP web:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/?cat=6" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://africanopenscience.org.za/?cat=6</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">High-Level Meeting Report:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/High-Level-Report.pdf" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://africanopenscience.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/High-Level-Report.pdf</a></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">Kind regards<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">Ina<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; 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