Do you use marine data?

We need your help!

In an effort to better understand the uses and ultimately the societal value of public ocean data, the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) are working alongside the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS).

The first stage of this project contains a survey of users of public marine data repositories with the aim to better understand value chains associated with public marine data – a crucial step towards closing important knowledge gaps surrounding the valuation of the societal benefits of public marine data.

We would be grateful if you and your colleagues could take a couple of minutes to answer the following questionnaire. Doing so would be greatly appreciated – your contribution will help inform future ocean policies in the run-up to the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030.

Survey link:  https://survey2018.oecd.org/Survey.aspx?s=39c3e2e36f984cc4b45b93a1bde962db

The survey will remain online until 10^th July. An OECD Policy Paper summarising the findings and jointly developed by OECD, MEDIN and GOOS will be published in Autumn 2020. In view of the current COVID-19 situation, some specific questions on the potential impacts for users of marine data have been added at the end of the questionnaire.