UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development

A Programme called An Ocean Data and Information System supporting the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (OceanData-2030) has been registered with the UN Decade for Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The programme will play a central role in supporting the Ocean Decade mission to catalyse transformative ocean science solutions for sustainable development, connecting people and the ocean. In order to achieve the Ocean Decade vision of ‘the science we need for the ocean we want’.

It is noted that the “ocean digital ecosystem” concept promoted and developed through OIH/ODIS is adopted also by the Decade and is referred to in the “Data & Information Strategy for the UN Ocean Decade”. It will furthermore be promoted by the Decade Coordination Office (DCO) for Data Sharing, that has been approved for establishment by the IOC Executive Council (2022) and will be hosted by the IOC Project Office for IODE, Oostende, Belgium. It is therefore clear that Ocean InfoHub (and the underpinning ODIS architecture) is a “trailblazer” for the UN decade’s ocean digital ecosystem.