A step into the future of iMarine: The iMarine Public-centred Partnership Business Model

From collaboration to market and future growth

29th September2014

A step into the future of iMarine:

The iMarine Public-centred

Partnership Business Model

Marc Taconet - FAO

Patricio Bernal - IUCN High Seas Initiatives

Hervé Caumont - Terradue

European Commission premises, DG CONNECT, 29th September 2014, Brussels)

Partnership Business Model

Outline of presentation

• Part 1 – Community perspective (Marc Taconet)

• Part 2 – Highlight of White Paper on iMarine

sustainability (Patricio Bernal)

• Part 3 – Rolling-out the business model –

strategic steps and funding needs (Hervé Caumont)

• Conclusion (Marc Taconet)


Part 1 – Towards community engagementProcess followed during project

• iMarine Board

• High level Business Cases – support to:

– EU Common Fishery Policy

– FAO’s High Seas Deep Seas program

– regional tropical LME pelagic EAF community

Outreach, community involvement

• FAO

• DG MARE

• Eurostat

• NEAFC

• MEDDE/DOF

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• Outreach, community involvement

• Applications delivered

• Data access and sharing Policies

• White Paper on iMarine sustainability

• MEDDE/DOF

• IRD

• ICES

• IOC/OBIS

• FIN

• CRIA

• VLIZ

• T2/GENESI-

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Part 1 - iMarine current value propositionin support to �� the Ecosystem Approach to fisheries

management and conservation of marine living resources

Marine resource

assessment

Physical and chemical features

Inventories of biological

information

Habitat types

Socio-economic

aspects

Management of Fisheryoperations


Part 1 - iMarine current value proposition

Cover data needs for EA policy life-cycle

Geo-Finder Species Distribution

Modeller

Collation and sharing

campaigns

EA assessments Policy implementation &

monitoring strategies

VME DATABASE

AQUAMAPS

TRENDYLIZER

FISHBAYES

MYOCEAN

WORLD OCEAN

ATLAS

GBIF

EOL

WORMS

OBIS

FAO FISHFINDER

SPECIES FACT

SHEETS

Fact sheets

Fact sheets

dissemination

Fishing Activity

Analyser

Integrated Captures

Manager (ICIS)

App Builder

Fisheries data

enricher

Statistical data

harmonizer

VME DATABASE

APPLIFISH(MOBILE APP)

CHIMAERA

(SEMANTIC WEB

ENABLED)

TUNA ATLAS(AND SPREAD)

VMS

TO SCIENCE(NEAFC AND ICES)

OBIS

FISHBASE

FAO-FISHFINDER

FAO-FISHSTAT

FAO FISHING

AREAS

VLIZ MARITIME

BOUNDARIES

Fact sheets

manager


Part 1 – EA CoP’s expected benefit

• a comprehensive Data catalogue providing

access to data

� Integrated analyses, data quality improvements, packaged

information products

• New capacities become available

� Computing performance; harmonization services; cross-� Computing performance; harmonization services; cross-

domain scientific collaboration through VREs-SocialMedia-R;

Big Data to Science

– Increased cost efficiencies

�Cloud hosting solution

�Software solutions are pooled and reused

�Development time and cost significantly reduced


Implementation

Share &

Access

IGO / iNGOs - User needs

Consumers of services / data providers

Societal challenges / Policy drivers

Part 1 – the challenge

Adapting the existing landscape to new dimensions

Relies on

Robust technology /

operational infrastructure

Standards setting

Living data catalogue

Community Software

Requires


Coordination mechanism

and Governance

-- UpUp--scaling issue scaling issue �� multimulti--layers and dimensions layers and dimensions

brought togetherbrought together

-- Coordination capacity cutting Coordination capacity cutting across across

-- Preserve the existing Preserve the existing

partnerships and networks and partnerships and networks and

build on their existencebuild on their existence

Part 1 – the challenge

Adapting the existing

landscape to new dimensions

-- Coordination capacity cutting Coordination capacity cutting across across

those those layers, enabling partnerships, layers, enabling partnerships,

governance, brokerage of community governance, brokerage of community

services services

-- Rely Rely on specialized on specialized actors for actors for

infrastructure infrastructure servicesservices

Robust technology

/ operational

infrastructure

-- Ensure modularity and Ensure modularity and

specialization, e.g. specialization, e.g.


Part 1 – Partners intended contributions

our goals “pooling together data, services,

tools, and expertise in support of EA”

• EA Community Partners

� Membership in formally instituted Advisory Board …

� … which aims at promoting :� … which aims at promoting :

– comprehensive catalogue providing access to public data

– practices facilitating harmonization and sharing

– sharing and reuse of community software and expertise

– use of iMarine platform – through outreach and brokering


Advisory Board(s)Advisory Board(s)

Part 1 – iMarine sustainability ingredients

Providers of

Infra and

data servicesIndustry - SMEs

Steering BoardChairs of CoPs,

stakeholders IT representatives

iMarine

(EA-CoP)

Cluster2

CoP

Go

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SMEs Infrastructure Community

iMarine infrastructureiMarine infrastructure

Other Infra as a

service (EGI,

Helix Nebula, …


Data

providers

ExecutiveOperations management

[Secretariat] [Marketing]

Data

providers

Customers of Data services

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Infrastructure as-a-service

Systems

Operations /

data services

Users

iMarine VO

Cluster2 VO

• Technology partners (public)

� Continuous upgrade through addressing IT research challenges

� [Short term] infrastructure maintenance

� Organize SMEs involvement

Part 1 – Partners intended contributions

our goals “pooling together data, services,

tools, and expertise in support of EA”

� Organize SMEs involvement

• Technology partners (private) – engine of growth

� Provide industry-standards services

� Organize Open-Source community for core software

maintenance

� Exploit platform services, contributing income generation

� Consulting services at interface between IT and community


Part 2 – White Paper Highlights

The critical needs we address

• The Public nature of the initiative:

Serving science and policy

– Support to Global EA

– Major High Level Strategies


• EC Fishery Common Policy

• EC MFSD

• UNGA SDGs

– Small science labs in needs of software resources

– Open Data requirements for Marine sciences

– Education and universities


The iMarine’s Vision Statement

Our vision

“To deliver open data management solutions that

empower self-sustaining communities in the generation

and use of their knowledge


and use of their knowledge

through collaborations within an always accessible e-

Infrastructure,

and with a focus on blue growth for fisheries and

ecosystem services worldwide”


The iMarine’s Mission Statement

Our Mission

“ We serve the implementation and policy development of

the Ecosystem Approach by delivering through the iMarine

e-Infrastructure rich, high quality and time-aware

science-based knowledge.

Through iMarine, we contribute to sustain a cost-effective


Through iMarine, we contribute to sustain a cost-effective

exploitation of the underlying D4Science infrastructure,

and its associated tools facilitating the sharing, retrieval,

access, and collaborative production of information.

We bring together stakeholders sharing data, information

and multidisciplinary knowledge development tools, and

facilitate a unified and effective

Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice ”


Strategic Considerations

• Public vs Private data infrastructure operated

platforms

• Legal interoperability

• Risks mitigation – unlocking IT dependencies


• Risks mitigation – unlocking IT dependencies

• Value of data services

Part 3 – strategic steps & funding needs

A shared goal

• Our intent:

– Serve all the critical needs that we clearly spotted

during the 3-years iMarine project

– State our vision to achieve this goal


– State our vision to achieve this goal

– State our mission plan to build and sustain real

benefits for all the Ecosystem Approach

communities


Ensuring Baseline operations

• D4Science infrastructure: supported by CNR

until at least 2016

• Launching the iMarine Board - An instituted

community Partnership


– with core EA strategic partners

• Services delivered to early adopter customers,

invoiced for the development costs only

• Manpower available through some current

FAO and CNR framework contracts


Enabling real Growth

• A not-for-profit Management entity

• Stakeholders involvement in Steering and

Advisory Boards

• Contractual arrangements with SMEs



– Membership fee to access selected resources

– SME Innovation Voucher


Sustained funding for sustained operations



Enabling real Growth

• A not-for-profit Management entity

• Stakeholders involvement in Steering and

Advisory Boards




– Membership fee to access selected resources

– SME Innovation Voucher

� An example: Terradue’s Case

• Italian SME, created in 2006– ESA ESRIN spin-off (Rome)

• UK subsidiary, created in 2011– Space Cluster (Harwell

Cloud Services for BIG Earth Sciences


Kicking-off contractual arrangements with SMEs

– Space Cluster (Harwell Oxford)

• 12 start-upers– 5 different EU nationalities



Connect scientists to the Web and

Commodity Providers



Cloud resources that can empower

their research

Users

Partners




Commodity Providers

iMarine Data



Cloud resources that can empower

their research

Users

Partners

iMarine Data

Infrastructure

Conclusion


Conclusion

why is FAO engaged

• FAO has launched global Blue Growth initiative

� Encompasses EA, Food Security, Ecosystem Services

� Increasing need for holistic evidence base

� No one institution can serve these policy needs in isolation

• iMarine appears the right answer to an obvious demand

� Project was successful to create business link with community

� 3 to 4 opportunities for iMarine services each month

� Developing software is not FAO’s mandate

� FAO is not a funding institutions

� FAO wants to build on EU’s know-how for offering global services

• A sustainable platform is required


• iMarine will maintain baseline operations beyond

project end

• iMarine business model components will be finalized by

end 2014

Conclusion

Project results are very encouraging

partners mindset set Momentum

end 2014

• Call for strategic partners of iMarine advisory and

steering Boards

• Growth is the unique viable scenario for medium term

� Funding support is required for growth

� iMarine partners will work to raise various funding sources


Your opinion on the presented

model is welcomed

and some guiding questions:

� What role can your organization play in this model

Time for Open discussion

� What role can your organization play in this model

� How to best organize community Governance structure

� What is EC strategy for strengthening data infrastructure

landscape? Distributed and modular vs centralized ?

� What about a marketplace for data e-infrastructure where data

services can be offered to a potentially broader spectrum of

users


Data & Analytics

A step into the future of iMarine: The iMarine Public-centred Partnership Business Model