29th General Assembly of International Council for Science
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At 29 her to the General Assembly of International Council for Science (ICSU) in Maputo, Mozambique, held in late October 2008, a resolution was adopted on the formation of a new World Data System (WDS) at the International Council for Science (ICSU). This new World Data System (WDS) will replace the existing system of World Data Centers (WDCs) with ICSU and the Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Evaluation Service. These actions are the result of a priority assessment ICSU scientific data and information and subsequent recommendations of the Strategic Committee of ICSU with information and data. |
CODATA-08 session "Emerging Technologies and Opportunities for Global Data Management and Exchange"
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In Thursday, at the 7th of October 2008 on a special session «Emerging Technologies and Opportunities for Global Data Management and Exchange» with Professor Jean Bernard Minster at the head (co-chairman of World Data System Transmition Committee) in the scopes of the 21st International CODATA-08 conference «Scientific Information for Society — from Today to the Future» took place on the base of National Technical University of Ukraine «Kyiv Polytechnic Institute» from 5th till 8th of October 2008. The Ukrainian Department of the World Data Center (UdWDC) was represented. |
National atlas of Ukraine
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From now one of the achievements of independent Ukraine — the first National Atlas of Ukraine is available at NTUU “KPI”. This gift on behalf of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine made by Rudenko, director of the Institute of Geography Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, on the occasion of 110 anniversary of the KPI. “Research, information, educational, cultural and other spheres of social life of our country — he said — rich source of unique knowledge about its history, nature and society — National Atlas of Ukraine”. |
The International Russian-Ukrainian seminar “Formation of the Global Geoinformatic Area for Urgent Questions of Earth Study”
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From 23rd till 25th of April 2008 on the base of National Technical University of Ukraine «Kyiv Polytechnic Institute» the international Russian-Ukrainian Seminar of the World Data Centers «Formation of Global Geoinformatic Area for Urgent Questions of Earth Study» took place. |
The Start of Ukrainian World Data Center in Partnership with Geophysical Center of Russian Academy of Science
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At the 17th of November 2006 in Kyiv the scientific seminar «Start of Ukrainian World Data Center in Partnership with Geophysical Center Russian Academy of Science» took place. It was devoted to the discussion of problems, new tasks and plans connected with the National Technical University of Ukraine «Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’s» implementation to the network of the World Data Centers of the International Council of the Science of Ukraine (ICSU). |