Strategy Outlook for the Federation 2007 – 2009 Gerardo Su árez and Torild van Eck

1. Strategy Outlook for the Federation 2007 – 2009 Gerardo Suárez and Torild van Eck

3. Do not re-invent the wheel!

4. Consolidation • Membership • Update names of institutions and individual contacts • Encourage Web-page subscription from all members • Contact ‘less active’ members and encourage their participation in Working Groups and Meetings of FDSN

5. Consolidation (2) Station List • Update station list under the new format of WG-1. Target date for next update (July 2008) • Define the category of ‘Backbone Stations’ • Update the list of FDSN stations as a regular exercise (once a year) • Aim at efficient coordination with ISC/NEIC station list.

6. Consolidation (3) Representation • Continue promoting the FDSN as a coordinator of global digital networks and representation at GEO. • IASPEI: Maintain close contact with IASPEI Leadership • GEO(SS): Continue collaboration and participation in GEO meetings (Domenico in Geneva; Rhett in DI-06-02 task; and Executive Committee as needed) • CTBT: Continue to remind CTBT signatories the desire of FDSN to make all data open and fully accessible to the scientific community • ISC: Collaboration and exchange of information

7. Consolidation (4) Working groups • Recruit new blood in the working groups • Involve, where possible, existing regional groups • Rejuvenate WG3 (software) • Rejuvenate WG5 (mobile networks)

8. Future Developments Membership • Implementing regional coordinators. • Encourage potential new members, particularly but not solely, from Central and South America, Africa, Middle East and Southeast Asia to apply • Actively recruit new people and members to participate in the Working Groups, Regional Meetings and Plenaries • Promote global coordination of (passive) mobile networks deployments and data availability.

9. Future Developments (2) Coverage and Backbone Stations • Improve coverage (Africa, South America, etc…) • Use the support of the newly defined Regional Coordinators to urge potential members to volunteer their stations to the FDSN backbone • Improve OBS coverage by integrating existing and future stations in the oceans. This involves involvement of groups deploying OBS’s.

10. Future Developments (3) CTBT • Identify primary and secondary stations in CTBT network that would fill important gaps in coverage • Follow a two-pronged approach to encourage members to make the stations available to FDSN: • Continued Communication with Governing Bodies • Approach individual countries and request their participation in FDSN (Niger is an example)

11. Future Developments (4) Network Products and tools • Carefully review potential new avenues to have a broad coordination of developments and deployments of services and tools • Review possible new standards for data exchange and services. (Discussions underway in revised WG-3)

12. Future Meetings of FDSN • Plenary Meeting: IASPEI meeting in South Africa (January 2009) Formulate a new long-term vision with targets (a.o.) • Regional Meetings • Search opportunities to join meetings organized by other institutions and organizations • Caribbean-Central American Meeting in collaboration with IRIS? • Other suggestions by members