<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear all, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks for all of you who have responded so far - quite a list (see bottom of this email)! That's great! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since there are so many contributors, I don’t think a Skype call is practical. I will rather try to explain what needs to be done and coordinate via email. We have a tight deadline (26 October). Here is my proposed schedule:<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Friday, 14 October: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Email your first contributions about SDI implementations at universities and research institutes to me <a href="mailto:serenacoetzee@gmail.com" class="">serenacoetzee@gmail.com</a></div><div class="">Tuesday, 18 October: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I will circulate a paper in which I have integrated all the contributions (possible with questions to you); updated section 4 (Figure 2 and Table 3), based on your contributions; and added a first draft <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>of the discussion and conclusion.</div><div class="">Monday, 24 October: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Email your corrections/comments/suggestions to me</div><div class="">Wednesday, 26 October: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Submit the final paper paper (Serena)</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">For those of you contributing to section 3, please describe the SDI implementation based on the following: <br class=""></b>· Describe the purpose/intent of the SDI, current state of the SDI<br class="">· Identify and describe the SDI stakeholders (Policy Maker, Producer, Provider, Broker, VAR, End User) that are/were involved and what their roles/mandates are/were.</div><div class="">· Lessons learnt about the stakeholders – who was important, who not? If the SDI was a success, how did the stakeholders contribute to this? If the SDI failed, how did the stakeholders contribute to this, e.g. were</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>important stakeholders not involved? Or did they not have an appropriate mandate? Or did they not understand the concept of an SDI….?</div><div class="">· Keep the description to one page. I have attached the author guidelines for your perusal. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">For those of you contributing to section 2, please send me your contributions as text in a MS Word document or email (no need to use the author guidelines). </b></div><div class="">· Please include details of any references cited in the text. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any questions, please let me know. I am looking forward to this!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Promised contributions so far: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class="">Section 3 (Implementations of SDIs at universities and research institutes):</i></div><div class=""><div class="">Barend Koebben - University of Twente, Netherlands<br class="">Barend will follow up with person from Groningen (or do it himself?) - University of Groningen, Netherlands<br class="">Petr Rapant - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic<br class="">Antony Cooper - CSIR, South Africa<br class="">Stefan Steiniger - Universities in Chile</div><div class="">Stefan Steiniger or someone else? - Universities in Germany<br class="">Samy Katumba - Wits, South Africa? <br class="">Adam Iwania, Iwona Kaczmarek - Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class="">Section 2 (related work):</i></div><div class="">Kisco Sinvula, Samy Katumba, Barend Koebben (anybody else is welcome to make contributions to this section)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class="">Others:</i></div><div class="">Harald Moellering offered to be the internal Commission reviewer, commentator and memory. He was Commission Chair when the model was developed, so that will be very helpful for us :-).<br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Ammatzia Peled, Tatiana Delgado and Rumiana Vatseva – they will let me know what they would like to contribute. </div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""></div></div></div></body></html>