OneGeology

The 2010 meeting of the Operational Management Group took place on Monday 23rd August 2010 at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology under the umbrella of Minister Bruederle, Germany.

Minutes will be available soon.

The "Asociacion de los Servicios de Geología y Minería Iberomaericanos" (ASMGI) has agreed that the Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino (SEGEMAR) would host the 2009 OneGeology Operational Management Meeting on Thursday July 2 and Friday July 3 in Buenos Aires.

• Agenda
• Papers
• OneGeology - Un nuevo mapa geológico de La Tierra
  An article about the meeting was published. You will find it at page 4 of Newsletter IDE Iberoamérica.
• Minutes

The 3rd meeting of the Operational Management Group was held on the 14th August at the IGC, Oslo.

• Agenda
• Minutes

21 European geological surveys have submitted a 3.25€ million OneGeology-Europe proposal to the EC for funding under the eContentplus programme. The proposal has received a very positive technical and scientific evaluation and subject to negotiations to take place in Luxembourg on 10th April, is looking likely to be funded. The project could start as early as June 2008.

The meeting was attended by 17 participants and included discussion and action on the following topics: funding and support, communication and website, organisation, governance, roles and responsibilities, and planning for the 33rd IGC.

Why did we choose to hold the OneGeology meeting at the Place de la République?

• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity is the motto of the French Republic
• What about OneGeology?
• Liberty to access geologic maps,
• Equality of all participants in the initiative,
• Fraternity through the Buddy system,
• ... and Interoperability

Liberté	Egalité	Fraternité	Interopérabilité

• Draft agenda
• Participants list
• Final notes and actions

Eleven directors of Commonwealth geological surveys met at BGS in Keyworth. As part of their visit they were given a presentation on OneGeology. As a result several new nations are now participating in OneGeology.

The kick-off meeting introduced the outline of the OneGeology Initiative and discussed how to organize the project among the CCOP Member Countries.
The meeting was held at the Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan.
(CCOP = Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programmes in East and Southeast Asia)

• Meeting summary

The meeting was attended by 21 representatives from many nations and was highly successful. Discussions encompassed a number of key issues including:

• obtaining funding
• strategies for technical and practical assistance where needed
• intellectual property rights
• communication.

All presentations and documents from the meeting can be accessed from the downloads page.

• The meeting agenda.
• The actions and decisions.

The kick-off meeting was held on the 12–16 March 2007, where 81 geoscientists from 43 countries across the world gathered to consider a proposition – would they be prepared to collaborate to create a global geological map dataset? See the 'how will we do it?' pages for more information.