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Please join us for the 8th Annual NOAA Open Data Dissemination Town Hall. The NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) Program (formerly known as the NOAA’s Big Data Program) is one of many programs transforming NOAA’s data access and use via the cloud stand leveraging the importance of public, private and academic partnerships to inspire greater use of environmental information in planning and decision-making. NODD is focused on demonstrating how users - whether they are decision-makers or planners - are leveraging cloud access to NOAA data.This Town Hall topics span technical and policy discussions, including: +++Evolution of the NODD Program including NODD metrics and interoperability +++Policy approaches and partnerships with other agencies that advance user efforts and engagement.Attend the Town Hall to note progress and challenges in NODD Program’s technical activities, policy approaches and implications and user engagement activities. The Town Hall will cover how NODD scales NOAA's observational data sets to the public cloud services, recognizing the importance of data analysis and timely access to NOAA data via the cloud. NODD connects with users and partners to learn and collect feedback from all users, from scientists to sector decision-makers on use of NOAA data on the cloud.