CODATA is the Committee on Data of the <b>International Science Council (ICS)</b>. CODATA exists to promote global collaboration to improve the availability and usability of data for all areas of research. CODATA supports the principle that data produced by research and susceptible to be used for research should be as open as possible and as closed as necessary. CODATA works also to advance the interoperability and the usability of such data: research data should be intelligently open or FAIR. By promoting the policy, technological and cultural changes that are essential to make research data more widely available and more usable, CODATA works in three main goal areas: 1) promoting principles, policies and practices for Open Data and Open Science; 2) advancing the frontiers of data science; and 3) building capacity for Open Science by improving data skills and the functions of national science systems needed to support open data.<br/><br/>We will discuss the technical activities and accomplishments of CODATA in the context of the International Science Council's 2019-21 Action Plan of Advancing Science as a Global Public Good", in its own programs, and in its cooperation with other data organizations such as the Research Data Alliance, World Data System, Scientific Unions, and GO FAIR. Some of the projects that will be discussed include data science schools; the development of regional platforms such as the African Open Science Platform; development of policy through papers and policies for data sharing; organization of workshops to advance interdisciplinary data sharing and opened, FAIR data; the establishment of an International Data Week, and projects that are addressing "Tackling Complexity: Data-Driven Interdisciplinarity" to make data work for cross-domain challenges. Finally, we will end on the point of: Unions, Alliances, Societies, Networks – what role can/do/should they play?

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