GRDI2020 in collaboration with GRL2020 Africa

Co-located with CODATA22

23-24 October, 2010 - SPIER, Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa

This was an invitation-only event, targeting selected experts to address the important issues facing data infrastructures on a global level.  Global Research Data Infrastructures of the future are envisioned to be cost-effective, efficient collaborative research environments built on an interoperable & sustainable governance model with user needs woven into their fabric. Such infrastructures need to be strong enablers of new research perspectives available across geographical borders & disciplines with grand global challenges firmly in mind by empowering their user communities as effectively as possible. The aim of this event was to harness the global expertise that exists in the field and to mobilise data infrastructure stakeholder communities to foster a better understanding of the technical and organisational/policy challenges that need addressing to arrive at advanced infrastructures over the next ten years.
This two-day workshop, co-hosted by GRDI2020  and GRL2020, provided a platform to identify the direction in which data infrastructures should evolve and the necessary instruments for making this possible.

Download the final Report of the event!

GRDI2020 – GRL2020 Workshop – 23-24 October 2010

• European Vision & Digital Agenda Strategy – Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens, Greece
• The Global Scientific Data Infrastructures: The Big Data Challenges – Costantino Thanos, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISTI-CNR), Italy
• GRL 2020 –An Evolving Landscape: 2007 to present – Lee Dirks, Microsoft Research, Director Scholarly Communications, US
• Data e-Infrastructure in Practice – Donatella Castelli, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologiedell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISTI-CNR), Italy
• Progress in rolling-out a large data repository for scientific data in South Africa: An Initiative by the Department of Science and Technology – Happy Sithole, Director, Centre for High PerformanceComputing, South Africa
• The State of Scientific Data in Africa - Dr Achuo Enow. Programme Specialist, ICSU Regional Office for Africa 
• Information Technology Management in Support of Virtual Observation Science Organisations - Wim Hugh, SAEON (South African Environmental Observation Network)
• Scientific Data and the role of collaborative tools - Bruce Becker, Meraka Institute - South AfricanNational Grid
• Plenary Presentation of parallel session topics and policy & technological working group context – Andreas Aschenbrenner, Göttingen University, Germany & GRDI2020 Technological WG Scientific Chair & Matti Heikkurinen , Emergence Tech Ltd, UK & GRDI2020 Organisational / Policy WG Scientific Chair
• Final Agenda
  

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PARTICIPANTS:

NAME	SURNAME	ORGANISATION	COUNTRY
Andreas	Aschenbrenner	Goettingen University, Austrian Academy of Sciences	Austria
Malcolm	Atkinson	e-Science Institute	UK
Carlo	Batini	University of Milano Bicocca	Italy
Bruce	Becker	Meraka Institute	South Africa
Jan	Brase	DataCite	Germany
Donatella	Castelli	CNR-ISTI	Italy
Wo	Chang	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)	US
Jeff	Chen	CSIR	South Africa
Lee	Dirks	Microsoft Research	US
Achou	Enow	ICSU Regional Office for Africa	South Africa
Yasmin	Forbes	Independent Consultant	South Africa
Max	Galassi	Logica Informatica	South Africa
Hilary	Hanahoe	Trust-IT Services Ltd.	UK
Matti	Heikkurinen	Emergence Tech Ltd	Switzerland
Jessie	Hey	University of Southampton	UK
Wim	Hugo	SAEON	South Africa
Jane	Hunter	The University of Queensland	Australia
Gabriel Marcel	Ikopi Moleko	ong de ntic , Construisons ensemble le monde	Democratic republic of Congo
Yannis	IIoannidis	UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS & ATHENA RESEARCH INSTITUTE	Greece
Shuichi	Iwata	The University of Tokyo	Japan
Fotis	Karagiannis	Independent	Greece
Erwin	Laure	KTH	Sweden
Lucia	Lötter	Human Sciences Research Council	South Africa
Buhle	Mbambo-Thata	UNISA Library Services	South Africa
Tom	Moritz	Monk, Bean and Moritz	US
Pasquale	Pagano	CNR - ISTI	Italy
Mark	Parsons	National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado	US
Vanderlei	Perez-Canhos	Reference Center on Environmental Information (CRIA)	Brazil
Dale	Peters	University of KwaZulu Natal	South Africa
Heila	Pienaar	University of Pretoria	South Africa
Happy	Sithole	Center for High Performance Computing	South Africa
Hussein	Suleman	University of Cape Town	South Africa
Costantino	Thanos	CNR-ISTI	Italy
Mark	Thorley	Natural Environment Research Council	UK
Martie	van Deventer	CSIR	South Africa
Alex	Wade	Microsoft Research	UK
Lesley	Wyborn	Geoscience Australia	Australia

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