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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Hi Asha, Simon and Paul,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I hope you are doing well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you and CODATA for your leadership.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I would like to help
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#666666"><a href="https://codata.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Data-Together-COVID-19-Statement-FINAL.pdf"><b><span style="color:#2EA3F2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Data Together COVID-19
Appeal and Actions</span></b></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#666666"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Perhaps my best form of assistance would be in helping with science diplomacy to transform data into evidence for informed decisions, operating short-term to long-term, in view
of the decisionmaking institutions with:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Governance Mechanisms</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> (laws, agreements and policies as well as regulatory strategies, including
insurance, at diverse jurisdictional levels); and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Built Infrastructure</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> (fixed, mobile and other assets, including communication, research, observing,
information and other systems that require technology plus investment).</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Data are fundamental to address the immediate urgencies at security time scales as well as the urgencies across generations that will arise post-COVID-19 for our shared sustainability
at local-global levels. As introduced with science diplomacy training through the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) – informed decisionmaking skills, methods and theory are available to train and apply, transforming research into
actions <i>“to service the new reality of data-driven science.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I hope you and those closest are doing well. Stay healthy!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">With best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-variant:small-caps;color:black">Prof. Paul Arthur Berkman</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-variant:small-caps;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Director, Science Diplomacy Center</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Professor of Practice in Science Diplomacy</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Tufts University</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">160 Packard Avenue, Medford MA 02155</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Email:</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#000066"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:paul.berkman@tufts.edu"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:#2E74B5">paul.berkman@tufts.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sites.tufts.edu_sciencediplomacy_&d=DwMGaQ&c=c6MrceVCY5m5A_KAUkrdoA&r=-W0tYttYY2ls6FBzaQ0jgJPAJ_UDNvL6lzYvZV2flVs&m=46vGdcaSbcBSii0f6dt1E0uGahHxHfgSB-xoWuu2xgk&s=t1MDYA0VrK-CZ4UsCTRrqtmJhc8ZIHhi7Z3P81URsis&e="><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:#2E74B5">http://sites.tufts.edu/sciencediplomacy/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.scidiplo.org/"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:#0563C1">www.scidiplo.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.panarcticoptions.org_&d=DwMGaQ&c=c6MrceVCY5m5A_KAUkrdoA&r=-W0tYttYY2ls6FBzaQ0jgJPAJ_UDNvL6lzYvZV2flVs&m=46vGdcaSbcBSii0f6dt1E0uGahHxHfgSB-xoWuu2xgk&s=eKe1UiYUnHInUHgwjhOx76qqOGDBMW_MBP_XTcroakw&e="><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:#2E74B5">www.panarcticoptions.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#000099"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Science Diplomacy: Antarctica, Science and the Governance of International Spaces</span></u></i><i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">(2011),<i> </i>available
from the Smithsonian Institution<i> </i>(</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__repository.si.edu_handle_10088_16154&d=DwMGaQ&c=c6MrceVCY5m5A_KAUkrdoA&r=-W0tYttYY2ls6FBzaQ0jgJPAJ_UDNvL6lzYvZV2flVs&m=46vGdcaSbcBSii0f6dt1E0uGahHxHfgSB-xoWuu2xgk&s=1t_bNYHOMf2kGVxYcj60ClpnwrL6hU0fGCcFgssdg-E&e="><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:#2E74B5">https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/16154</span></a></span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">),
celebrating the first fifty years of the 1959 <i>Antarctic Treaty</i> at the 2009 Antarctic Treaty Summit in <i>“<span style="background:white">the interests of science and the progress of all mankind” </span></i><span style="background:white">(</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.atsummit50.aq_&d=DwMGaQ&c=c6MrceVCY5m5A_KAUkrdoA&r=-W0tYttYY2ls6FBzaQ0jgJPAJ_UDNvL6lzYvZV2flVs&m=46vGdcaSbcBSii0f6dt1E0uGahHxHfgSB-xoWuu2xgk&s=cqvJbc8mxGoSuMnb-COkEKjx1vX0i1bIdDCCKs0E3nk&e="><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:#2E74B5;background:white">www.atsummit50.aq</span></a></span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#000099;background:white">),
</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">as the first book published on SCIENCE DIPLOMACY.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> CODATA-international [mailto:codata-international-bounces@lists.codata.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Asha CODATA<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 30, 2020 8:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> codata-international@lists.codata.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CODATA-international] Data Together COVID-19 Appeal and Actions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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together with GO FAIR, RDA, and WDS (the four major international data organisations), are pleased to outline their joint commitment to work together to optimise the global research data ecosystem and to identify the opportunities and needs that will trigger
federated infrastructures to service the new reality of data-driven science.</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">A first concrete example of this is the following ‘</span><a href="https://codata.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Data-Together-COVID-19-Statement-FINAL.pdf"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2EA3F2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Data
Together COVID-19 Appeal and Actions</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">’ </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The COVID-19 pandemic presents a major test for our science system and for our research and data infrastructures. These infrastructures, such
as open science clouds and data commons, must serve the needs of science, policy, and humanity not only in ‘normal times’, but also in times of crisis by providing controlled access to quality data in real-time and at scale for a range of scientific- and policy-related
responses.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The Data Together organisations are jointly working on the following activities and invite all to contribute:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><a href="https://www.go-fair.org/implementation-networks/overview/vodan/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2EA3F2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Data Together–GO FAIR Virus Outbreak
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The </span><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/rda-covid19"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2EA3F2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Data
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">CODATA </span><a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/strategic-programme/decadal-programme/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2EA3F2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">‘Making
Data Work for Cross-Domain Grand Challenges’</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> for launch in 2021</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Read the full statement on </span><a href="https://codata.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Data-Together-COVID-19-Statement-FINAL.pdf"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2EA3F2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Data
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