[CODATA-international] Fwd: February 2019 Edition | Climate Impacts top WEF's 2019 list of risks | Introducing Contracts for Data Collaboration | Turning FAIR into a Reality

[Simon Hodson, ED CODATA]

Please see the Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter below, which may be of interest.

S.
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