Sharing large amounts of data from Norway’s seafood industry
C4IR Ocean and OPS Sjømat are joining forces on the digitised highway for the green transition of blue food production. Their shared and contextualised ocean data will enable better ocean management.
A significant increase in the production of blue food is a vital part of covering our planet´s rising need for nutrition. The production increase must happen in a sustainable way, built on a solid base of knowledge.
The independent technology foundation C4IR Ocean and the organisation OPS Sjømat both have the same important goal: making ocean data more easily accessible for industry, authorities, and academia.
A major step forward in digitising the ocean
The two organisations have therefore established a partnership. That way, we can find the solutions we need to enable a healthy and productive ocean.
“We cannot afford to fail in the management of the ocean. Solid insight into our ocean is crucial to understand how the ocean is affected by human activities. The collaboration between C4IR Ocean and Sjømatdata is a major step in digitising the ocean, making shared and contextualised data accessible for all” — said Jon Arne Grøttum, leader of OPS Sjømat and director of the Norwegian Seafood Federation.
OPS Sjømat consists of representatives from the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, the Norwegian Seafood Federation, and the Norwegian Seafood Association. OPS Sjømat is the connection box for digitisation and simple and secure sharing of data between the seafood industry members. Their sector platform is called Sjømatdata.
“We are very proud to collaborate with OPS Sjømat. We need transparency, data, and standards to provide better insight for decision-makers. Sharing seafood data through our ground-breaking Ocean Data Platform will contribute to documenting and developing solutions that reduce the industry footprint, secure biodiversity, and increases access to nutritious food. We will only achieve this through global cooperation between industry, science, and governments,” — said Kristine Hartmann, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Nutrition in C4IR Ocean.
The foundation C4IR Ocean aims to connect people, data, and technology to pilot and support new data-driven tools for better ocean management. The flagship of the foundation is the Ocean Data Platform. The Ocean Data Platform contains oceanographic and maritime data from industry, governments, science, and the public.
20 years of seafood data
OPS Sjømat will share its 20 years of ocean data from the sector platform Sjømatdata. The shared data will be from ocean use in phase one, such as environment and fish health. At a later stage, data sets from fisheries, for instance, will also be shared.
OPS Sjømat and C4IR Ocean will together work in defining projects which contribute to their common purpose. These projects will be open to others wishing to join.
Sjømatdata’s sole purpose is a simple and secure sharing of data within the seafood industry. The Ocean Data Platform contains oceanographic and maritime data from industry, governments, science, and the public.
About OPS Sjømat
OPS Sjømat is the connection box for digitisation and data sharing between stakeholders in the seafood industry.
Together, they will both take the initiative and facilitate for needs and solutions to come together. The goal of the collaboration is a sustainable and profitable seafood industry. In Norwegian, OPS stands for “offentlig-privat sektorutvikling”; public-private sector development. The advisory committee consists of representatives from the Department of Trade and Fishery, the Norwegian Seafood Association and the Seafood Federation. These three major stakeholders have signed the OPS agreement. OPS Seafood will contribute to value creation in the Seafood industry.
About C4IR Ocean
The World Economic Forum has set up 13 centres for the Fourth Industrial Revolution across the globe. The centres work with governments, leading companies, civil society, innovators and science experts from different sectors to explore how to maximise the benefits of modern technology to solve critical societal tasks. Located in Oslo, Norway, the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Ocean is the only Centre solely focusing on oceanic challenges. C4IR Ocean was initially founded by the Aker Group and the World Economic Forum in 2019 and now has a growing network of 16 partners.
For more information, contact:
Jon Arne Grøttum, Leader of the Advisory Committee, OPS Sjømat
Tel: +47 920 41 804
Email: JAG@sjomatnorge.no
Vigdis Hvaal, Director of Communications, C4IR Ocean
Tel: +47 952 00 932
Email: Vigdis.hvaal@oceandata.earth