<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><img class="gmail-alignright gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-683" src="https://codata.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/codata_new_logo-1.png" alt="" width="298" height="131" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; max-width: 100%; height: auto; float: right; display: inline;">Happy New Year!</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif">CODATA would like to remind you of this Call for Nominations or Applications.  The deadline falls in one week’s time: Monday 17 January.  Please distribute this call widely through your networks and send it to any person that you think is well qualified and may be interested.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">CODATA invites nominations and applications to become the Chair of the organization’s </span><a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/data-policy/international-data-policy-committee/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">International Data Policy Committee</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> for a 3-year term (renewable once by mutual consent), beginning 1 March 2022.  We will accept applications directly from the candidate or nominations from a candidate’s institution or endorsing organization.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Applications or nominations can be made through the form </span><a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/data-policy/international-data-policy-committee/members/application-form-chair-codata-international-data-policy-committee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">here</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> or by sending the <a href="https://codata.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/21-11-Call-for-DPC-Chair-Nominations-FORM-NEW.doc" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none">attached Word document</a> to </span><a href="mailto:info@codata.org" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">info@codata.org</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">The deadline for applications is 23:59 UTC on Monday, 17 January 2022.</b></p><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:26px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:1em;font-weight:500;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">About CODATA</span></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://codata.org/about-codata/our-mission/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">CODATA’s mission</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> is to connect data and people to advance science and improve our world.  As the Committee on Data of the </span><a href="https://council.science/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">International Science Council (ISC)</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">, CODATA helps realise ISC’s vision of advancing science as a global public good.  CODATA does this by promoting international collaboration to advance Open Science and to improve the availability and usability of data for all areas of research.  CODATA supports the principle that data produced by research and susceptible to be used for research should be as open as possible and as closed as necessary.  CODATA works also to advance the interoperability and the usability of such data: research data should be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable).</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">CODATA’s strategic activities are divided into four priority areas:</span></p><ol style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 23px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;list-style-position:inside;line-height:26px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Decadal Programme ‘Making Data Work for Cross-Domain Grand Challenges’ and the Global Open Science Cloud initiative;</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Data Policy: promoting principles, policies and practices for FAIR Data and Open Science;</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Data Science: advancing the frontiers of the science of data;</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Data Skills: building capacity for Open Science by improving data skills and the functions of national science systems needed to support open data.</span></li></ol><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:26px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:1em;font-weight:500;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">About the CODATA International Data Policy Committee (IDPC)</span></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">The CODATA International Data Policy Committee (IDPC) is the key instrument by which CODATA pursues its mission of promoting effective and appropriate policies for Open Science and FAIR data. A subsidiary task is to support the other strategic objectives of CODATA. </span></p><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:26px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:1em;font-weight:500;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">IDPC Mission</span></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">The CODATA International Data Policy Committee is an international expert body that:</span></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 23px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;list-style-position:initial;line-height:26px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">takes a leadership role in developing and advancing CODATA’s Open Science and FAIR Data agenda</b><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> at a national and international level, in support of the organization’s strategy</span><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 23px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;list-style:disc;line-height:26px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3935461" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Open Science for a Global Transformation: CODATA-coordinated submission to the UNESCO Open Science Consultation</span></a></li></ul></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">encourages the adoption and implementation of Open Science and FAIR data policies</b><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">, particularly in the context of the International Science Council (ISC) -sponsored international collaborative research programmes</span><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 23px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;list-style:disc;line-height:26px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3552330" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Beijing Declaration on Research Data</span></a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><a href="https://council.science/publications/open-data-in-a-big-data-world/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">The Science International Accord on Open Data in a Big Data World</span></a></li></ul></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">provides expert advice to the global RDM stakeholder community</b><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> on the development, adoption, and implementation of open data or other appropriate data policies and related activities</span><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 23px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;list-style:disc;line-height:26px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><a href="https://doi.org/10.35035/ctzm-hz97" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Twenty-year Review of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility by CODATA</span></a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.162241" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Guidelines for the Legal Interoperability of Research Data</span></a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.27872" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Current Best Practice for Research Data Management Policies</span></a></li></ul></li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:26px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:1em;font-weight:500;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">IDPC Activities</span></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">There are generally three types of activities in which the IDPC engages:</span></p><ol style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 23px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;list-style-position:inside;line-height:26px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Policy support of CODATA initiatives and programs.</b><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> IDPC members can be individually or collectively involved in engaging with CODATA activities, projects, Task Groups etc. on data policy issues. This can include supporting the data policy activities of CODATA Strategic Initiatives and Task Groups. The </span><a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/decadal-programme2/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Decadal Programme ‘Making Data Work for Cross-Domain Grand Challenges</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> and the </span><a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/decadal-programme2/global-open-science-cloud/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Global Open Science Cloud (GOSC)</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> initiative both have data policy related activities, as do some </span><a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/task-groups/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">CODATA Task Groups</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">.</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">External requests for advice or projects.</b><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> CODATA is frequently contacted by other organizations in relation to data policy issues. These approaches generally ask for advice, comment or even endorsement of policy statements and documents. CODATA generally calls on the IDPC’s expertise to respond to such issues. Additionally, there have been in recent years </span><a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/data-policy/international-data-policy-committee/idpc-outputs-and-reports/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">a series of externally generated and funded reviews and reports</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> that CODATA has been asked to undertake. The IDPC membership often acts as a source of expertise for such work.</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">IDPC-generated projects.</b><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> IDPC members bring forward policy-related issues for consideration by the Committee. A recent activity that fits in this category was the </span><a href="https://codata.org/events/science-and-policy-workshops/codata-and-codata-china-high-level-international-meeting-on-open-research-data-policy-and-practice/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">High-level International Meeting on Open Research Data Policy and Practice</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> held in September 2019 and the resulting </span><a href="https://codata.org/events/science-and-policy-workshops/codata-and-codata-china-high-level-international-meeting-on-open-research-data-policy-and-practice/the-beijing-declaration-on-research-data/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Beijing Declaration</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">.</span></li></ol><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:26px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:1em;font-weight:500;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Current IDPC Projects and Sub-Groups</span></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">In 2021, the IDPC underwent a process of reflection and preparing new areas of activity. Current areas of interest for the IDPC include the following:</span></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 23px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;list-style-position:initial;line-height:26px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Framework for Data Diplomacy</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Data Rights and Responsibilities</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Data Policy Training</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Sensitive Data Sharing Policy</span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Additionally, the IDPC will engage with the </span><a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/decadal-programme2/global-open-science-cloud/working-groups/policy-and-legal/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(46,163,242);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Policy and Legal Working Group</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> as part of the GOSC initiative and a new CODATA Working Group on Data Ethics.</span></p><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:26px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:1em;font-weight:500;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Role of the IDPC Chair</span></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">The IDPC Chair coordinates activities with Dr. Simon Hodson, the Executive Director of CODATA, and reports directly to the CODATA Executive Committee. The successful candidate will be expected to work in the general areas outlined above and perform the following tasks, among others:</span></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 23px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;list-style-position:initial;line-height:26px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Act as the primary manager of the Committee and develop a strategy for action.</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Carry out projects, with the IDPC members and others, and consistent with the areas outlined above. Projects may include: organizing workshops or side-events at meetings or conference sessions (virtual and in-person when possible), lead the drafting of reports and other germane documents, communicate and establish productive relationships with experts in other organizations working on data policy issues, and undertake other activities as deemed appropriate. </span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Hold regular (about monthly) conference calls with the IDPC members to discuss projects and issues. This will involve preparations before the Committee call and a summary of actions after. The CODATA Secretariat assists with and supports the calls: Asha Law schedules the calls and assists with logistics; Simon Hodson participates in the calls, if available.</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Hold face-to-face meetings of the IDPC at conferences or events that are attended by a substantial subset of Committee members. </span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Select the membership of the IDPC, in consultation with Simon Hodson and the CODATA Executive Committee.</span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">The outgoing IDPC Chair, Mark Leggott, allocated c.10% or 3-4 hours per week to this role. As is often the case for such senior volunteer activities, the employer of a successful candidate should allow this time (0.1 FTE) as part of his or her activities. Mark will be available to continue as a member or advisor to the Committee at the new Chair’s discretion, and will answer any questions that the new Chair may have.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><br></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Thanks,</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Asha</span></p><div><br></div>--<div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">___________________________<br></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div><b>Data to Improve our World in 2022! </b><a href="https://codata.org/data-to-improve-our-world-in-2022/" target="_blank">End of year message from the CODATA Secretariat</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><br></b></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b>Call for Nominations and Applications: Chair, CODATA International Data Policy Committee:</b> <a href="https://codata.org/call-for-nominations-and-applications-chair-codata-international-data-policy-committee-deadline-monday-17-january-2022/" target="_blank">DEADLINE Monday 17 January 2022</a></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br></div><b>Call for Sessions, SciDataCon 2022, part of International Data Week:</b> <a href="https://codata.org/call-for-sessions-scidatacon-2022/" target="_blank">DEADLINE 14 February 2022</a><br><br><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://codata.org/high-level-panel-on-future-data-space-how-a-vision-of-the-internet-of-fair-data-services-becomes-a-reality/" target="_blank"><b>High Level Panel on Future Data Space, 19 January 2022</b></a><b>: </b><a href="https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/92302933025" target="_blank">register here</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Overview of CODATA Activities and Achievements:</b> <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5670945" target="_blank">Report Presented to the CODATA General Assembly November 2021</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>DEADLINE EXTENDED! Call for Proposals to Host International Data Week 2025: </b><a href="https://internationaldataweek.org/call-for-applications/" target="_blank">deadline 31 January 2022</a></div></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><br></div><div><b>Stay in touch with CODATA:</b></div><div></div><div><br></div><div>Stay up to date with CODATA activities: <a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/codata-international_lists.codata.org" target="_blank">join the CODATA International News list</a></div><div><br></div><div>Looking for training and career opportunities in data science and data stewardship?  <a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/data_science_training_lists.codata.org" target="_blank">Sign up to the CODATA early career community-run data science training and careers list</a></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent">Follow us on social media! </span><a href="https://twitter.com/CODATANews" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent">Twitter</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent"> - </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/codata.org/" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent">Facebook</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent"> - </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-hodson-b3711a11/" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent">LinkedIn</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent"> - </span><a h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