IODE national coordinators are the officially designated representatives of a country's data and information centre in the IODE Committee. They participate in Sessions of the Committee and as such determine the strategy and work plan of the IODE Programme.
IODE national coordinators are mostly Directors (or another data centre expert nominated by the Director) of National Oceanographic Data Centres or National Oceanographic Libraries.
Until September 2004 there was only one IODE National Coordinator for each country that participates in the IODE Programme. They represented both their national data management and information management centres.
GEMIM-VII, in 2002, recommended that IODE should also have national coordinators for marine information management (Recommendation MIM-VII.1). This recommendation was adopted by IODE-XVII (2003) and by IOC-XXIII (2003). On 21 September 2004 the IOC Secretariat sent out Circular Letter 2125 inviting Member States to identify an "IODE National Coordinator for Marine Information Management".
The lists of national coordinators can be found here:
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