24th APMP General Assembly:
Report from Developing Economies’
Committee (DEC)
Angela Samuel, Deputy Chair, APMP DEC
24th APMP GA, Jakarta – 6-7 Nov 2008
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
Organiser’s 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
Activities since 23rd APMP GA (ctd)
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17th DEC and associated activities, Jakarta, Indonesia, OctNov 2008
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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
Key issues arising:
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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
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Proposals for re-structure of DEC meetings
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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
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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)
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DEC participation in TC meetings, Monday:
 Mechanisms to enhance input from DEC economies:
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“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)
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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/CIPMrelated, etc)
 Reporting back by TC Chairs re: DEC-related TC discussions/proposals
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?