24th APMP General Assembly: Report from Developing Economies Committee DEC

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24th APMP General AssemblyReport from
Developing Economies Committee (DEC)

• Angela Samuel, Deputy Chair, APMP DEC

24th APMP GA, Jakarta 6-7 Nov 2008
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Activities since 23rd APMP GA

• 16th DEC and associated activities, Dhaka,
  Bangladesh, May 2008
• DEC Strategic Planning
• 2nd TCQS-DEC CIPM MRA Workshop
• 4th TCQM-DEC MiC Workshop
• Developing economies session at 2008 NCSLI
  meetings, Florida, USA, August 2008
• C Sanetra, PTB, Germany APMP MiC Workshops The
  Organisers Perspective
• K Deczky, INMS/NRC, Canada International
  Mentoring in Metrology The Canada/Costa Rican
  Partnership
• C Santo, LATU, Uruguay Mass Metrology Training
  Activities in SIM

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Activities since 23rd APMP GA (ctd)

• 17th DEC and associated activities, Jakarta,
  Indonesia, Oct-Nov 2008
• 5th TCQM-DEC MiC Workshop
• TCQM-DEC PT Workshop
• 3rd TCQS-DEC CIPM MRA Workshop the peer
  review process
• TCL special DEC session on CMCs
• Other DEC-specific discussions / initiatives /
  activities within
• TCAUV capability development
• TCEM comparison
• TCFF Seminar associated with APMP 2009
• TCM comparisons, training
• TCT comparisons
• TCTF Seminar associated with APMP 2009, new WG
  on remote calibrations

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Key issues arising

• Response to DEN and TC proposals including scope
  of funding, funding criteria, procedures and
  access to funding sources
• Need to monitor/evaluate results of previous
  activities
• Difficulties for DEC economies to participate in
  APMP activities
• Development of website
• increased use of other mechanisms such as
  teleconferencing
• Proposals for re-structure of DEC meetings
• New PTB SRB Project
• Possible strengthening of linkages between DEC
  and APLMF
• Next Meeting Date, Location

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Proposed re-structure of DEC Meetings

• 1st session, Sunday
• Reports submitted 1 month prior to meeting,
  questionnaire format, to focus on key DEC issues
  and provide input for TC meetings
• In-depth discussion of 3-4 key issues identified
  from reports (DEC, DEC economy, TC Chair,
  EC/Secretariat, BIPM/CIPM, PTB, etc)
• DEC participation in TC meetings, Monday
• Mechanisms to enhance input from DEC economies
• DEC Champion
• DEC Directors to collect all technical issues
  before and after meetings and ensure submission
  to TCs. TC Chairs to ensure responses forwarded
  to DENs.
• DEC agenda item/TCx-DEC Workshop including
  scheduling between TCs to avoid overlap if
  possible (at least for key technical areas)
• 2nd session, Tuesday
• Workshop parallel sessions for 2 groups focused
  at each level of development within DEC
  membership
• Either combined with TCx OR DEC-specific to look
  at issues at management level (strategic
  planning, resourcing of metrology activities,
  stakeholder and customer engagement, needs
  identification and analysis, EC or
  BIPM/CIPM-related, etc)
• Reporting back by TC Chairs re DEC-related TC
  discussions/proposals

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Proposed re-structure of DEC Meetings

• Interim DEC meeting
• Associated with EC-TC Chairs AND
• TC-DEC Workshop activity (where appropriate)
• Additional activities
• Awareness-raising Symposium/event DEC economies
  guidance re how to best address needs
• Visit to decision-makers
• Industry / laboratory visits OR use opportunity
  to seek expert advice from TC Chairs on specific
  technical issues
• Other suggestions?