Ocean Data Platform
Ocean Data
The Challenge
Only 5% of the Ocean has been fully explored yet new technologies, data-processing, sensors and satellites could transform our knowledge of, and relationship with, the Ocean. We can tap into this information revolution, making ocean data available as a comprehensive, opensource, digital platform for the public good and to feed more informed decision-making.
The Action Track
Friends of Ocean Action working with partners to develop an open-source digital platform that enables free access to all existing data for better Ocean management and protection and the global public good
Targets
SDG 14.2, 14.4, 14.5
Partners
Rev Ocean
Cognite
Global Fishing Watch
Pristine Seas project
World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
2018
Scope and create the architecture
Mapped existing data platforms to identify gaps and opportunities
Mapped data sources and advanced work on harmonizing data points
Advanced connection among experts and ensure integration of valuable initiatives
Scoped the need for a governance structure to support safety and credibility of data
2019
Build the user cases
Set up a governance advisory group to develop a framework for transparent and secure management of the data platform
Identify and explore engagement opportunities with key data owners, within and beyond Friends of Ocean Action
Call for the liberation of Ocean data showcasing benefits and utility
Investigate development and soft launch of potential user cases (e.g. Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing and Marine Protected Areas)
The Friends of Ocean Action to collaborate and mobilize partner networks to develop additional cases
Roadmap for the development of potential new user cases (including for the Port State Measures Agreement)
Scope financial sustainability mechanisms to ensure continued operations
2020
Identify key partners
Governance framework tested, and case studies built
Establish the Friends of Ocean Action as the platform for stimulating front-end user applications and sharing best practices
Allow integration of on-board data to track performance against environmental and social requirements
Support Global Fishing Watch capability, including AIS VMS data for all important countries
Align with, and support, UN Decade of Ocean Science to highlight data gaps and call for open Ocean research
Other action tracks
Plastic pollution
Sustainable ocean production: blue food
Ending illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing
Marine protection and conservation
Decarbonizing the maritime and shipping sectors
Liberating ocean data
Financing ocean innovation
Eliminating harmful fisheries subsidies
Gender parity
Science-based targets
