Presentation by Marc Taconet - FAO-FI, Chief Fisheries Statistics and Information Branch (FIPS) & iMarine Board Chair, Patricio Bernal - IUCN High Seas Initiatives and Hervé Camount - Terradue, Program Manager on the sustainability plan of the iMarine initiative
The Universal GTM - how we design GTM and dataLayer
A step into the future of iMarine: The iMarine Public-centred Partnership Business Model
1. From collaboration to market and future growth
29th September2014
A step into the future of iMarine:
The iMarine Public-centred
Partnership Business Model
Marc Taconet - FAO
Patricio Bernal - IUCN High Seas Initiatives
Hervé Caumont - Terradue
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
2. Outline of presentation
• Part 1 – Community perspective (Marc Taconet)
• Part 2 – Highlight of White Paper on iMarine
sustainability (Patricio Bernal)
• Part 3 – Rolling-out the business model –
strategic steps and funding needs (Hervé Caumont)
• Conclusion (Marc Taconet)
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
3. Part 1 – Towards community engagement
Process followed during project
• iMarine Board
• High level Business Cases – support to:
– EU Common Fishery Policy
– FAO’s High Seas Deep Seas program
– regional tropical LME pelagic EAF community
Outreach, community involvement
• FAO
• DG MARE
• Eurostat
• NEAFC
• MEDDE/DOF
Fisheries
• • Applications delivered
• Data access and sharing Policies
• White Paper on iMarine sustainability
• IRD
• ICES
• IOC/OBIS
• FIN
• CRIA
• VLIZ
• T2/GENESI-DEC
Environment Biodiversity European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
4. Part 1 - iMarine current value proposition
in support to the Ecosystem Approach to fisheries
management and conservation of marine living resources
Marine
resource
assessment
Physical and
chemical
features
Inventories of
biological
information
Habitat types
Socio-economic
aspects
Management
of Fishery
operations
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
5. Part 1 - iMarine current value proposition
Cover data needs for EA policy life-cycle
Geo-Finder Species Distribution
Modeller
Collation and sharing
campaigns
EA assessments Policy implementation
monitoring strategies
VME DATABASE
AQUAMAPS
TRENDYLIZER
FISHBAYES
MYOCEAN
WORLD OCEAN
ATLAS
GBIF
EOL
WORMS
OBIS
FAO FISHFINDER
SPECIES FACT
SHEETS
Fact sheets
dissemination
Fact sheets
Integrated Captures
Manager (ICIS)
Fishing Activity
Analyser
App Builder
Fisheries data
enricher
Statistical data
harmonizer
APPLIFISH
(MOBILE APP)
CHIMAERA
(SEMANTIC WEB
ENABLED)
TUNA ATLAS
(AND SPREAD)
VMS
TO SCIENCE
(NEAFC AND ICES)
FISHBASE
FAO-FISHFINDER
FAO-FISHSTAT
FAO FISHING
AREAS
VLIZ MARITIME
BOUNDARIES
manager
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
6. Part 1 – EA CoP’s expected benefit
• a comprehensive Data catalogue providing
access to data
Integrated analyses, data quality improvements, packaged
information products
• New capacities become available
Computing performance; harmonization sseerrvviicceess;; ccrroossss--
domain scientific collaboration through VREs-SocialMedia-R;
Big Data to Science
– Increased cost efficiencies
Cloud hosting solution
Software solutions are pooled and reused
Development time and cost significantly reduced
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
7. Adapting the existing landscape to new dimensions
Societal challenges / Policy drivers
Implementation
Part 1 – the challenge
IGO / iNGOs - User needs
Consumers of services / data providers
Share
Access
Relies on
Robust technology /
Coordination mechanism
operational infrastructure
Standards setting
Living data catalogue
Community Software
Requires
and Governance
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
9. Part 1 – Partners intended contributions
our goals “pooling together data, services,
tools, and expertise in support of EA”
• EA Community Partners
Membership in formally instituted Advisory Board …
… which aaiimmss aatt pprroommoottiinngg ::
– comprehensive catalogue providing access to public data
– practices facilitating harmonization and sharing
– sharing and reuse of community software and expertise
– use of iMarine platform – through outreach and brokering
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
10. Part 1 – iMarine sustainability ingredients
AAddvviissoorryy BBooaarrdd((ss))
Providers of
Infra and
data services
Industry - SMEs
Steering Board
Chairs of CoPs,
stakeholders IT representatives
iMarine
(EA-CoP)
Cluster2
CoP
Governance
SMEs Infrastructure Community
iiMMaarriinnee iinnffrraassttrruuccttuurree
Other Infra as a
service (EGI,
Helix Nebula, …
Data
providers
Executive
Operations management
[Secretariat] [Marketing]
Customers of Data services
Data
providers
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
Resources Operations
Infrastructure as-a-service
Systems
Operations /
data services
Users
iMarine VO
Cluster2 VO
11. Part 1 – Partners intended contributions
our goals “pooling together data, services,
tools, and expertise in support of EA”
• Technology partners (public)
Continuous upgrade through addressing IT research challenges
[Short term] infrastructure maintenance
Organize SMEs involvement
• Technology partners (private) – engine of growth
Provide industry-standards services
Organize Open-Source community for core software
maintenance
Exploit platform services, contributing income generation
Consulting services at interface between IT and community
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
12. Part 2 – White Paper Highlights
The critical needs we address
• The Public nature of the initiative:
Serving science and policy
– Support to Global EA
– Major High Level Strategies
• EC Fishery Common Policy
• EC MFSD
• UNGA SDGs
– Small science labs in needs of software resources
– Open Data requirements for Marine sciences
– Education and universities
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
13. Part 2 – White Paper Highlights
The iMarine’s Vision Statement
Our vision
“To deliver open data management solutions that
empower self-sustaining communities in the generation
and use of their knowledge
through collaborations within an always accessible e-
Infrastructure,
and with a focus on blue growth for fisheries and
ecosystem services worldwide”
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
14. Part 2 – White Paper Highlights
The iMarine’s Mission Statement
Our Mission
“ We serve the implementation and policy development of
the Ecosystem Approach by delivering through the iMarine
e-Infrastructure rich, high quality and time-aware
science-based knowledge.
Through iMarine, we contribute to sustain a cost-effective
exploitation of the underlying D4Science infrastructure,
and its associated tools facilitating the sharing, retrieval,
access, and collaborative production of information.
We bring together stakeholders sharing data, information
and multidisciplinary knowledge development tools, and
facilitate a unified and effective
Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice ”
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
15. Part 2 – White Paper Highlights
Strategic Considerations
• Public vs Private data infrastructure operated
platforms
• Legal interoperability
• Risks mitigation – unlocking IT dependencies
• Value of data services
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
16. Part 3 – strategic steps funding needs
A shared goal
• Our intent:
– Serve all the critical needs that we clearly spotted
during the 3-years iMarine project
– State our vision to achieve this goal
– State our mission plan to build and sustain real
benefits for all the Ecosystem Approach
communities
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
17. Part 3 – strategic steps funding needs
Ensuring Baseline operations
• D4Science infrastructure: supported by CNR
until at least 2016
• Launching the iMarine Board - An instituted
community Partnership
– with core EA strategic partners
• Services delivered to early adopter customers,
invoiced for the development costs only
• Manpower available through some current
FAO and CNR framework contracts
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
18. Part 3 – strategic steps funding needs
Enabling real Growth
• A not-for-profit Management entity
• Stakeholders involvement in Steering and
Advisory Boards
• Contractual arrangements with SMEs
– Membership fee to access selected resources
– SME Innovation Voucher
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
19. Part 3 – strategic steps funding needs
Sustained funding for sustained operations
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
20. Part 3 – strategic steps funding needs
Enabling real Growth
• A not-for-profit Management entity
• Stakeholders involvement in Steering and
Advisory Boards
• Contractual arrangements with SMEs
– Membership fee to access selected resources
– SME Innovation Voucher
An example: Terradue’s Case
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
21. Part 3 – strategic steps funding needs
Kicking-off contractual arrangements with SMEs
Cloud Services for BIG Earth
Sciences
• Italian SME, created in 2006
– ESA ESRIN spin-off (Rome)
• UK subsidiary, created in 2011
– Space Cluster (Harwell
Oxford)
• 12 start-upers
– 5 different EU nationalities
22. Part 3 – strategic steps funding needs
Kicking-off contractual arrangements with SMEs
Connect scientists to the Web and
Commodity Providers
Cloud resources that can empower
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
their research
Users
Partners
23. Part 3 – strategic steps funding needs
Kicking-off contractual arrangements with SMEs
Connect scientists to the Web and
Commodity Providers
iMarine Data
Cloud resources that can empower
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
their research
Users
Partners
Infrastructure
25. Conclusion
why is FAO engaged
• FAO has launched global Blue Growth initiative
Encompasses EA, Food Security, Ecosystem Services
Increasing need for holistic evidence base
No one institution can serve these policy needs in isolation
• iMarine appears the right answer to an obvious demand
Project was successful to create business link with community
3 to 4 opportunities for iMarine services each month
Developing software is not FAO’s mandate
FAO is not a funding institutions
FAO wants to build on EU’s know-how for offering global services
• A sustainable platform is required
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
26. Conclusion
Project results are very encouraging
partners mindset set Momentum
• iMarine will maintain baseline operations beyond
project end
• iMarine business model components will be finalized by
end 2014
• Call for strategic partners of iMarine advisory and
steering Boards
• Growth is the unique viable scenario for medium term
Funding support is required for growth
iMarine partners will work to raise various funding sources
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)
27. Time for Open discussion
Your opinion on the presented
model is welcomed
and some guiding questions:
What role can your organization play in this model
How to best organize community Governance structure
What is EC strategy for strengthening data infrastructure
landscape? Distributed and modular vs centralized ?
What about a marketplace for data e-infrastructure where data
services can be offered to a potentially broader spectrum of
users
European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)