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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Dear Suchith,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Best thanks for these documents from the European Joint Research Center you sent to inform the CODATA community.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>These documents also indicate in a convincing way that the corresponding intricacies of operational implementations are far from easy and that Data Science is not the only source for operational innovation – it needs government, administration, private sector and society to work closely together in the permanent process of governance (from planning / design through implementation and effectiveness control).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Those of our colleagues that work in environmental and geo-information will notice - without much surprise - that some authors of these studies – Massimo Craglia (contact person) and Henk Scholten – had been massively involved in governance and implementation of the EU INSPIRE Directive (establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in Europe to support Community environmental policies, and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment) <a href="https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/inspire-directive/2">https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/inspire-directive/2</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Practice innovation in other domains (like in the RISK-Domains) still lag far behind data science experiences and informatics state-of-the-art (but we work on it <a href="http://RIMMA.org">http://RIMMA.org</a> ).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Especially in public administration we see a general and growing lack of adequately skilled digital professionals!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The European Union (Commission) works hard to get administration, politicians, private sector, R&D and other stakeholders into roundtables and open discourse because the final success is in serving Society.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Just let me mention an important additional, official EU document that was distributed only 2 days ago:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>2030 Digital Compass: the European way for the Digital Decade<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Communication from The Commission to the European Parliament, The Council, The European Economic and Social Committee and The Committee of the Regions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Brussels, 9.3.2021 COM(2021) 118 final, 27 p.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/communication-digital-compass-2030_en.pdf">https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/communication-digital-compass-2030_en.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Best greetings from Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Horst<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>_________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Horst Kremers</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>, Engineering Management and Information Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:4.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>General Secretary CODATA-Germany<br>German National Committee for the ISC International Science Council Committee on Data <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="https://council.science/what-we-do/research-programmes/data-and-information/committee-on-data-for-science-and-technology-codata"><span 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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="https://rimma.org/blog"><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#0563C1'>https://rimma.org/blog</span></b></a></span><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>____________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Von:</span></b><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> CODATA-international [mailto:codata-international-bounces@lists.codata.org] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Suchith Anand<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 10. März 2021 21:04<br><b>An:</b> codata-international@lists.codata.org<br><b>Betreff:</b> [CODATA-international] Why the EU must lead on data governance<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style='font-variant-caps:normal;font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'>Dear colleagues,</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-caps:normal;font-stretch:normal;min-height:21px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'>This JRC publication on data governance might be of interest</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-caps:normal;font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-caps:normal;font-stretch:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/getting-grip-data-why-eu-must-lead-data-governance"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/getting-grip-data-why-eu-must-lead-data-governance</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#DCA10D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-caps:normal;font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-caps:normal;font-stretch:normal'><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#DCA10D'><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/digitranscope-governance-digitally-transformed-society"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/digitranscope-governance-digitally-transformed-society</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#DCA10D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-caps:normal;font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-caps:normal;font-stretch:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'>My thanks to all colleagues who worked on this publication.<span class=xxxxxxapple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-caps:normal;font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-caps:normal;font-stretch:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'>Best wishes,</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-caps:normal;font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-caps:normal;font-stretch:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'>Suchith</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='min-height:14.0px'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='min-height:14.0px'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='min-height:14.0px'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",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></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>and may contain confidential information. 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