AfriGEOSS Initiative: Strengthening Use of EO and Bringing GEOSS to Africa Journey So Far Andiswa Mlisa GEO Secretariat 2nd AfriGEOSS Symposium 13.

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AfriGEOSS Initiative: Strengthening Use of EO and Bringing GEOSS to Africa Journey So Far Andiswa Mlisa GEO Secretariat 2nd AfriGEOSS Symposium 13 – 15 June 2017 Sunyani, Ghana

Cultivating awareness, building capacity and promoting innovation GEO Strategic Plan 2016 – 2025: Implementing GEOSS core function: Cultivating awareness, building capacity and promoting innovation Building capacity, as well as sustaining and enhancing existing capacity, is essential for developing competencies in the effective use of Earth observations for responding to societal challenges and addressing sustainable development issues. promote the engagement of institutional users worldwide; assist countries to acquire, share, store, maintain, and utilize; engage with the international development and donor organizations; work with the appropriate national entities to develop activities; and promote cooperation through national and regional GEO mechanisms. Ministers will reconvene in 2019 to review and reaffirm GEOs progress

AfriGEOSS Initiative Who is doing What Where

GEO Partnership 105 Members

GEO partnership 109 Participating Organizations

AfriGEOSS Implementation 2013 Launch 2014 SADC Ministers STI & ET EU-Africa Summit Implementation Plan Steering Committee +2 Member & PO 2015 AMCOMET-3 AU STC-EST +3 Members DICT 2016 26th AU Summit 1st Steering Committee Meeting 1st AfriGEOSS Symposium AfriGAM SFS CT 2017-2019 WP +1 EXCOM +1 PO EO in ADIRC 2017 WRM CT SUD CT 2nd AfriGEOSS Symposium 1st Training Programme +2 PO 2012 Endorsed by GEO-Plenary

AfriGEOSS Action Areas The AfriGEOSS Implementation Plan identified 6 Action Areas, namely ….

GEOGLAM: GEO’s Agricultural Monitor

Africa Land Cover Inventory

Data & Infrastructure Square Kilometre Array Co-location of observation systems Archiving, computing and dissemination infrastructure Research Networks Dissemination infrastructure

Africa Resources in the GEOSS Portal RCMRD TAMSAT SAEON UNEP CIESIN FAO Iris Ispra ISRIC Pangaea German GEO Portal IGAD-MESA ……more In Progress: IGAD ICPAC, OSS, AGRHYMET, Kenya OpenData Resource Providers for a total of 22’545’037 resources

Engagement with Continental Programmes African Action Plan on Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development in Africa (GI4SD), which focuses on five key areas, namely: Geospatial Information Policy and Governance; Common Framework and Tools; Capacity Building and Knowledge Transfer; International Coordination and Cooperation in Meeting Global Needs; Integration of Geospatial Information and Statistics. African Space Policy & Strategy

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