The Twentieth Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XX) is currently being held at the China People’s Palace in Beijing, China, between 4 and 8 May 2009. The event is hosted by the SOA (State Oceanographic Administration) of China. The Deputy Administrator at SOA, Mr Chen Lianzeng, welcomed and officially opened the Session, which is attended by 65 delegates from 35 Member States, 5 international organisations and 3 World Data Centres. 
The IODE Committee will, during its 5 day Session, review the work of the past inter-sessional period and discuss on important topics such as the cooperation with OBIS, the progress and way forward of the OceanData Portal and the development of standards in the OceanDataStandard project. The current status and progress of the different ODIN networks will be discussed. The different Groups of Experts will report on their progress and achievements during the inter-sessional period and the Committee will discuss the cooperation with other agencies and organisations.

The IODE Ocean Data Portal and WIS Technology Workshop was held in Obninsk, Russian Federation, from 18 to 19 March 2009. The aim of the meeting was to address Ocean Data Portal(ODP) and the WMO Information System (WIS) technologies and interoperability issues in order torefine ODP version 1 and produce plans for ODP version 2.  The workshop reviewed the progress of the ODP version 1 development, discussed ODP and WIS
interoperability issues to support the WIGOS Pilot Project fro JCOMM, and considered the reference model and development plan for ODP version 2. REPORT AVAILABLE  

Purpose of post:    Under the general supervision of the Executive Secretary IOC, and under the particular supervision of the Head of the IOC Project Office for IODE, the incumbent will assist with the implementation of IODE regional capacity development programme activities with special attention to Africa, at the IOC Project Office for IODE in Oostende, Belgium.

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