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Final Report released, January 2016

Current Status of Future Direction Actions

To be adaptive to an ever-changing data and research landscape, RDA seeks to be an agile organisation responding to change whle continually planning for an impactful future. As per the RDA Governance Document, Strategic Planning and the development of the RDA Strategic Plan is the responsibility of Council, but it is critical that the broader RDA community engage in the discussion, development, and implementation of RDA's future directions.

This site serves as a communications hub for sharing plans and ideas leading to a clear directions plan that informs clear and concrete community actions for the next few years.

This particular initiative was launched with a meeting convened in San Diego coincident with the Fifth RDA Plenary, on Saturday 7th March for the purposes of Future Directions for RDA consultation. The report from that meeting wil provide the basis for planning and community activites between now and Plenary 6, 23-25 September 2015.

The schedule lays out the status of various community engagement activities in the coming months, but Council welcomes comment on the report at any time. Members are also welcome to join the Planning Group running the process if they are willing to contribute.

Future Directions Planning Schedule
What	Who	When	Status
Workshop Report Posted	Sandra, Fran, Walter, Ross	March	Done
Develop, conduct, and analyze member survey on priorities	Larry, Inna, Mark, Timea, Hilary, Kathy, Walter	April/May	In Progress
Initial survey testing and analysis	Francoise, Ingrid, Juan	May	planned early June
Draft report/slide deck	Sandra, Fran, Walter, Ross	July	Met 6 June
Final survey analysis	Inna, Francoise, Ingrid, Juan	30 June	See report
Webinars and discussion fora	Asia Pacific: Ross, Mark: 24 August — 12:00 Melbourne Time (02:00 UTC) EMEA: Sandra, Mark: 3 September — 14:00 Paris Time (12:00 UTC) Americas: Fran, Mark: 9 September — 13:00 New York Time (17:00 UTC)	August and Early Sept.	webinars
Analyse feedback	Fran, Ross, Walter Sandra, Hilary, Kathy, Stefanie	mid Sept
Revise slides	Sandra, Fran, Walter, Ross	Sept 21
Present at P6 to test consensus	Sandra, Fran, Walter, Ross	Sept 21
Review final draft	John, Kay, Beth, Carole, Tony, Satoshi, Michael	early Oct.
Approve and release final document	Council	January	Final Document