The Headquarters of UNESCO, in France, recently was the cynosure of all eyes as the ‘DDE Open Science Forum’ attracted 150 guests from 97 organizations and institutions, in about 40 different countries and regions.
The DDE Open Science Forum (Open Science Forum) has come and gone, successfully. Held at the UNESCO Headquarters (UNESCO) in Paris, France, the forum is co-sponsored by UNESCO, the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (hereinafter referred to as the International Year of Basic Sciences), the International Union of Geological Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the International Union of Geosciences) and the DDE Big Science Program.
The theme of this forum is “Deep-time Digital Earth: Connect the future with the past”. A total of more than 150 guests attended the meeting, from 97 organizations and institutions in about 40 different countries and regions. Wang Chengshan, chairman of the DDE executive committee and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences of our university, and Cheng Qiuming, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences of our university, attended the forum and delivered keynote speeches.
Zhou Chenghu, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wang Jian, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Yan Guangsheng, director of the Natural Resources Comprehensive Survey Command Center of the China Geological Survey Bureau, and 30 members of the Chinese delegation attended the relevant activities.
DDE conception and design
Academician Wang Chengshan discussed the top-level conception and design of DDE from three aspects: the construction of scientific community, open geoscience knowledge, and open scientific infrastructure. Academician Cheng Qiuming discussed the background and development trend of the birth of the DDE program from the aspects of the characteristics of earth science data and the frontiers of data-driven earth science development.
The main achievements of the DDE program displayed in the forum system over the past three years indicate that the DDE big science program has been widely recognized by many international organizations such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), forming a multi-level and all-round international cooperation situation.
Michel Spiro and UNESCO chief
Dr. Shamila Nair-Bedouelle, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences of UNESCO, warmly welcomes DDE’s practice of promoting UNESCO’s open science recommendations through data-driven earth science.
Professor Michel Spiro, Chairman of the International Year of Basic Sciences (IYBSSD), expressed his pleasure to include this forum in the series of activities of the International Year of Basic Sciences.
Professor Jennifer McKinley, Chairman of the DDE Management Committee and member of the IUGS Executive Committee, delivered the opening speech of the forum, and announced the global release of the first version of DDE’s digital global public infrastructure Deep-time.org at the fifth DDE Management Committee meeting.
This post was culled from: www.bilibili.com
NB: The post was also republished because of the mentioning of IYBSSD