A global conference focussing on an accessible ocean with good governance, open access to data, information and technologies.
Date: Tuesday-Thursday, 10-12 May 2022
Click here to register to participate and watch the event online
Everyone is an ocean stakeholder. Open access to marine data and knowledge will maximize the quality of the information mined, packaged and communicated to support management, innovation and decision-making, enabling everyone to understand what we need to do in order to create the ocean we want. At the same time, ocean governance frameworks should be designed in ways that they can effectively be informed by science-society-policy interfaces and enable the participation of different relevant stakeholders.
Opening up access to marine data, knowledge and technology will reduce inequality in ocean science capacity and support sound and transparent assessments of ocean change. It will provide a common basis for transparent decision-making in global ocean governance and the identification of new solutions for the future ocean we want. Skills and opportunities must be developed for knowledge creation and transfer, particularly in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs).
As part of our commitments to the goals of the UN Ocean Decade Laboratory for 'An Accessible Ocean', WorldFish will continue to enrich ocean science for sustainable ocean governance around the world by ensuring open access infrastructures, data and analyses, decision-support systems for ocean stakeholders that will allow for scientifically informed and up to date decision-making guided by the sustainable development goals, through our research and innovation in relation to the WorldFish's '2030 Research and Innovation Strategy.'
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