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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The Global Forum of Funders is organized by the International Science Council with a consortium of public science funders, donor aid agencies, and international scientific partners.</span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The 2nd Global Forum of Funders builds</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> on a successful first event held in Washington DC in 2019, where science
funders and the research community initiated a “Decade of Global Sustainability Science Action”. The event called for the identification of critical priorities for science that will support and enable societies to accomplish the SDGs by 2030.</span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The ambition to scale up efforts by funding communities supporting science for the SDGs is the strategic goal of the 2nd Global Forum of Funders. Meeting agenda and details at
</span><a href="https://stories.council.science/science-missions/3/"><span style="color:rgb(220,161,13); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://stories.council.science/science-missions/3/</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I would like to thank International Science Council and the
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Global Forum of Funders</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> for inviting me to contribute ideas for the session</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">on
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Accelerating Open Science globally.</span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
I learned a lot listening to all colleagues. </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I shared ideas from GeoForAll initiative [1] [2] [3]. I would like to thank all colleagues for their contributions to Open Science.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I am grateful to get the opportunity to learn Geospatial Science many years back. So many kind people and scholarships from universities helped me on my journey to learn Geospatial Science.</span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig/post/please-share-open-principles-science-and-education-ideas-and-philosophy"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig/post/please-share-open-principles-science-and-education-ideas-and-philosophy</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I am grateful to everyone, everywhere working for Zero Hunger Aim.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Best wishes,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Suchith</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dr Suchith Anand</span></p>
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<span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.godan.info/"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://www.godan.info</span></a></span></p>
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<a href="https://council.science/profile/suchith-anand/"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://council.science/profile/suchith-anand/</span></a></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[1]
</span><span style="color:#000000"><a href="http://www.geoforall.org"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.geoforall.org</span></a><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:#000000"><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/geoforall-contributions-to-the-united-nations-sustainable-development-goals/"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/geoforall-contributions-to-the-united-nations-sustainable-development-goals/</span></a><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[2]
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://blog.scielo.org/en/2018/07/13/geo-for-all-open-principles-in-geoeducation-and-science/"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://blog.scielo.org/en/2018/07/13/geo-for-all-open-principles-in-geoeducation-and-science/</span></a></span></p>
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