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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you Paul for your kind collaboration.  I look forward to feedback from Simon and hope you are doing well.  Stay healthy!!!  With best regards, Paul<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"> Paul Uhlir [mailto:pfuhlir@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 30, 2020 11:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Berkman, Paul A <Paul.Berkman@tufts.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Asha CODATA <asha@codata.org>; codata-international@lists.codata.org; Simon Hodson, ED CODATA <simon@codata.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: INFORMED DECISIONMAKING RE: [CODATA-international] Data Together COVID-19 Appeal and Actions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That sounds excellent, Paul. I'm not centrally involved, but Simon is the coordinator for CODATA of this initiative. Hope all is well on your end too!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Paul<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 11:24 Berkman, Paul A <<a href="mailto:Paul.Berkman@tufts.edu">Paul.Berkman@tufts.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Hi Asha, Simon and Paul,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I hope you are doing well.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you and CODATA for your leadership.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#2EA3F2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Data
 Together COVID-19 Appeal and Actions</span></b></a>.  </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><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 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:110%">      
</span><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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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.”</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I hope you and those closest are doing well.   Stay healthy!!!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">With best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Paul</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-variant:small-caps;color:black">Prof. Paul Arthur Berkman</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Director, Science Diplomacy Center</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Professor of Practice in Science Diplomacy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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=" target="_blank"><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=" target="_blank"><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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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:<a href="mailto:codata-international-bounces@lists.codata.org" target="_blank">codata-international-bounces@lists.codata.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Asha CODATA<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 30, 2020 8:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:codata-international@lists.codata.org" target="_blank">
codata-international@lists.codata.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CODATA-international] Data Together COVID-19 Appeal and Actions</span><o:p></o:p></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><o:p></o:p></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" target="_blank"><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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<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
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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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">1.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#666666">    
</span><a href="https://www.go-fair.org/implementation-networks/overview/vodan/" target="_blank"><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 Data Network</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (VODAN)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><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" target="_blank"><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 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/" target="_blank"><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><o:p></o:p></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" target="_blank"><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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