The goal is to provide a forum to promote interaction between the principal communities that are developing communications, data management and storage technologies, and the major Global Science Communities that rely on current and future technologies to accomplish their missions. It arises from many informal discussions on the current state of “friendly chaos” and overlapping functionalities which hinder global collaborations. A move towards global data interoperability among the many communities generating the data (sensor networks, computational modeling and experimental devices) and the communities developing solutions for collecting, managing, distributing and preserving the data is needed. There are many problem domains, generic solutions, and potential ‘one of’ solutions that could benefit from focused interaction in an informal environment - the goal of this symposium.

The Symposium is organized around Featured Speakers to provide global views on the problems, needs and plans to achieve global connectivity, and panels to provide summarized information on Global Science Initiatives and projects using or needing global data access, technologies for collecting, managing and providing effective access to distributed data, and communities that are developing the critical software infrastructure.

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