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This draft proposal outlines the operational activities for SAON, including compiling progress reports, receiving and reviewing proposals, maintaining the database and website, and preparing for board meetings.
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SAON Operational Activities Draft proposal Jan René Larsen SAON Board Meeting, 24-25 January 2012, Tromsø ,
Overview • Compile progress reports for ongoing SAON Tasks with an agreed frequency • Receive proposals for new SAON Tasks, and prepare these for review and approval according to procedure • Maintain the SAON database on relevant activities • Maintain web site • Prepare for SAON Board meetings
Compile progress reports for ongoing SAON Tasks with an agreed frequency • Be in regular contact with the task leads • Compile progress reports from the task leads with an agreed frequency • Prepare overviews of task progress for the Board and for the web site
Receive proposals for new SAON Tasks, and prepare these for review and approval according to procedure • Receive proposals • Prepare for review and approval • (From “Plan for the Implementation Phase of SAON”: “The key criteria for creation of a SAON task are that it contributes to attainment of the SAON Goal, and that it has identified sources of funding/staffing”)
Maintain the SAON database on ongoing activities • A database has already been established on the basis of the National Implementation Plans • It contains records on countries, activities, networks, organizations, regions, sites, etc. Must be updated
Maintain the SAON web site • Inventory of networks (including database and national reports) • Inventory of tasks, including progress reports • Opportunities for joint activities, like announcing cruises, station activities, expeditions • Opportunities for funding • Background documents, like Arctic Council, declarations, etc. • Meeting documents (Open and closed part)
Prepare for SAON Board meetings • Invitations, meeting documents (Closed part)
From • ‘SAON Briefing presented on SAO Meeting, Copenhagen’, ‘SAON SG Support’ - 2009 • For the next two years, a full-time equivalent person will be engaged: • complete and analyze network database • identify and encourage interoperability tools • identify and encourage opportunities for integrated data and information analysis • white paper on “institutional framework”
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