Description :
EO AFRICA stands for African Framework for Research, Innovation, Communities and Applications – building an African-European R&D partnership. The ESA EO AFRICA Initiative fosters an African-European R&D partnership, facilitating the sustainable adoption of the Earth Observation and related space technology in Africa – following an African user driven approach with a long-term (>10 years) vision for the digital era in Africa.

This Agora will bring together some key representative from the Advisory Board and other African institutions to discuss the progress and define the future development of the EO AFRICA Initiative.

Panelists:
1.Prof Dr Zoltán Vekerdy,Senior Project Officer, Department of Water Resources, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente.

2.Meshack Kinyua Ndiritu,Training Officer (Space Applications), GMES & Africa Support Program, African Union Commission (AUC).

3.Prof. Dr Amos Tiereyangn Kabo-bah Associate Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Dean for the International Relations Office of the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in Ghana.

4. Ms. Phoebe Oduor, Thematic Lead Land Use Land Cover and PoC AfriGEO Secretariat, at the Regional Center for Mapping Resources for Development (RCMRD)

5.Dr Stewart Bernard, Chief Scientist, Earth Observation, South African National Space Agency (SANSA)