PRAGMA:

A strong collaboration exists between the PRAGMA Project (www.pragma-grid.net) and GEON. Some of the initial GEON international partners (e.g. India and Japan) were introduced to GEON via PRAGMA. The first iGEON workshop in India was collocated with a PRAGMA meeting, and the iGEON workshop in China has several PRAGMA participants as well.

The PRAGMA project has established a Geosciences Working Group, which is co-chaired by a GEON staff member (Ashraf Memon, SDSC). The other co-chair, Ryosuke Nakamura (AIST, Japan), is a member of the GEO Grid project and a close collaborator of GEON.

The Geosciences Working group met for the first time in March 2007 at the PRAGMA 12 meeting in Thailand.