MMI Endorses the eGY Declaration
MMI joins the growing list of organizations endorsing the "Declaration for an Earth and Space Science Information Commons"
eGY Declaration
"Knowledge is the common wealth of humanity"
Adama Samassekou
Convener of the UN World Summit on the Information Society
In this Electronic Geophysical Year (eGY), a growing list of individuals and organizations are focusing efforts on the development of an earth and space science information commons. This goal is predicated on eight issues of concern:
- Data access
- Data release
- Data description
- Data persistence
- Data rescue
- Common standards and cooperation
- Capability building
- Education and public outreach
To read more about this important declaration, see http://egy.org/declaration.php.
Posted October 15th, 2007 by carynn