National contributions to Argo include building, deploying, and operating floats, data management and quality control, and communications.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

This efficient data management network provides free automatic quality controlled data to marine scientists and oceanographers worldwide.

UNESCO: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)

Rather than undertaking a major push, firms seem content to re-use previous technology investments while trying to improve the timeliness and quality of the data and improving the integration with other risk management tools.

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They want the software to sell improved data quality, faster book closings, better regulatory compliance and risk management.

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The registration process asks each company to submit information in several categories: basic company profile, general information on number of employees, products and services, financial information on annual revenues, their ability to support electronic business transactions, any quality and environmental management certifications, details on their ethical dealings and social responsibility, information on data security, information on diversity policies, and on their use of independent contractors.

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