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Do you or your stakeholders use marine data? </b></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: black">As you may know, 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) to<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>better
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: black">We would be grateful if you could take a couple of minutes to circulate our<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><a href="https://survey2018.oecd.org/Survey.aspx?s=39c3e2e36f984cc4b45b93a1bde962db" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline">questionnaire</a><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>to
your colleagues and stakeholders, encouraging them to help us with this project and ultimately inform future ocean policies in the run-up to the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. <span style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">The
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: black">Survey link:<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><a href="https://survey2018.oecd.org/Survey.aspx?s=39c3e2e36f984cc4b45b93a1bde962db" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt">https://survey2018.oecd.org/Survey.aspx?s=39c3e2e36f984cc4b45b93a1bde962db</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: black"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Survey deadline: Friday 10th July</span></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: black">Thank you very much in advance for taking the time to complete the questionnaire, <span style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">which should take you less than ten minutes,</span><span> </span>and
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">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).</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">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.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">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.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"><b>Survey link:</b> </span><a href="https://survey2018.oecd.org/Survey.aspx?s=39c3e2e36f984cc4b45b93a1bde962db" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">https://survey2018.oecd.org/Survey.aspx?s=39c3e2e36f984cc4b45b93a1bde962db</span></a></p>
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<a target="_blank" href="https://survey2018.oecd.org/Survey.aspx?s=39c3e2e36f984cc4b45b93a1bde962db" style="margin:0px">OECD Marine Data Value Chain Survey</a></div>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">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.</span></p>
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