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Summary	The IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange held its 26th session (IODE-XXV) online between 20 and 23 April 2021. The IODE session was attended by 155 participants from 65 IOC Member States and 9 organizations. To accommodate participants from the wide range of time zones two plenary sessions of two hours were held on each day of the session (07:00-09:00 UTC and 15:00-17:00 UTC). During its 26th session, the Committee focused its attention mainly on the following key issues: (i) review of NODC health status within the IODE network; (ii) IODE project and activity performance evaluation methodology; (iii) future of the IODE Ocean Data and Information Networks (ODINs); (iv) establishment of the ODIS project and associated partnership centre; (v) contribution of IODE to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development; (vi) revision of the IOC strategic plan for data and information management (2022-2025); (vii) revision of the IOC oceanographic data exchange policy; (viii) performance review of the IOC Project Office for IODE; (ix) (first) international ocean data conference (November 2021); and (x) work plan and budget for 2021-2022. The Committee adopted five decisions and four recommendations.
Doc Type	Report
Status	Published on 07 May 2021
This document is in the list(s):	IODE Session Reports
This document is used in the event(s):	Meeting of the IODE Management Group (2022) [online] Twenty-Seventh Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange 26th Session of the IOC Committee on IODE [online]

IOC/IODE-XXVI/3

IOC/IODE-XXVI/3 IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange, twenty sixth session, online, 20-23 April 2021