This document discusses the creation of an Ukrainian World Data Center (UbWDC) for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development through a partnership between the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The UbWDC will collect and process various environmental, economic, social, and geophysical data to support research on sustainable development through global simulations, modeling, databases, and other data services. Key individuals from the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Institute of Geophysics will lead efforts on sustainable development and geoinformatics respectively.

1. Geoinformatics and sustainable development
Part 1
Michael Zgurovsky, Alexei Gvishiani, Vitaliy Starostenko,
Kostiantyn Yefremov, Alexei Pasichny, Nataliya Sergeeva

2.  Decision of National academy of sciences (NAS)
of Ukraine, Ministry of education and science
(MES) of Ukraine and Geophysical Center of
Russian academy of sciences (GC RAS)
from April 3, 2006
 Agreement about partnership, collaboration, and
science exchange between Institute for applied
systems (IASA) and Geophysical Center of RAS
from May 17 2006

3. ICSU – International council for science
Total: 52 WDCs
Australia (1), Belgium (2), China (9),
Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (3),
India (1), Japan (8), Netherlands (1),
Russia (7), United Kingdom(3), USA (15)
WDC B
WDC for Physics of solid Earth Geophysical
WDC for Solar-Terrestrial Physics Center of RAS
Institute for applied
UbWDC for Geoinformatics
and Sustainable Development systems analysis
NAS and MOS

4.  Initial stage of UbWDC creation
 Joint projects
◦ Development of artificial intelligence technique for
system prevision of complex anthropogenic and
natural systems’ behavior
◦ Development of World Data Centers network for
study of fundamental basis of intricate natural and
antropogenic systems global modeling
 Russian-Ukrainian Seminar on UbWDC
development on April 24-26 2008

5.  Funding
 Data
◦ who gives it? (data suppliers)
◦ how is it passed? (infrastructure)
◦ how is it stored? (data model, software and
hardware solutions)
◦ who uses it? (data users)
 Services
◦ still inventing

6.  Sustainable development
Prof. Michael Zgurovsky
Institute for applied systems analysis of NAS
 Geoinformatics
Prof. Vitaliy Starostenko
Institute of geophysics of NAS
◦ Solid Earth Physics
◦ Solar Terrestrial Physics
◦ Oceanography

7.  Data collection and processing
◦ Environmental data
◦ Economic and social data
◦ Geophysical data
◦ Data mining
 Data services
◦ Global simulations and modeling
◦ Databases
◦ Geographic information systems
◦ Software development
◦ Internet service
◦ Information service

8. http://wdc.org.ua