GMES and Africa: Technical Experts Committee convenes in its first meeting, to unravel issues around data access and usage by African institutions
A meeting of the GMES and Africa Technical Experts Committee (TEC) has begun in the Tunisian capital. The TEC is the platform set up to bring together programme stakeholders to discuss and provide solutions to challenges they are facing. The Tunis meeting centers around Consortia 's current use of data and information against some successes and pitfalls as well as ways to support them in terms of data access and usage.
Building on the achievements and lessons learned from the GMES and Africa Phase 1, the meeting seeks to engage and mobilize African Institutions for data need assessment, access, and sharing. It will dwell on prioritizing areas of intervention from European partners including Copernicus entities, EUMETSAT, ESA, and JRC. During the meeting, the experts will develop a roadmap with specific deliverables and timelines alongside an assessment and monitoring mechanism.
GMES and Africa has an embedded framework to strengthen African institutions and stakeholders with EO data and products, with the aim of delivering value added services to targeted users. These services are expected to be developed through co-creation between specialized European institutions, Copernicus entities, and existing African consortia in a spirit of partnership. The co-creation is to integrate upstream data access and downstream data processing for product delivery. It should also include other African Institutions of Interest that are not part of GMES and Africa.
The meeting brings together technical experts of the programme management team from the African Union Commission, consortia leaders, project coordinators, data experts and representatives of European partner institutions.
Building on the achievements and lessons learned from the GMES and Africa Phase 1, the meeting seeks to engage and mobilize African Institutions for data need assessment, access, and sharing. It will dwell on prioritizing areas of intervention from European partners including Copernicus entities, EUMETSAT, ESA, and JRC. During the meeting, the experts will develop a roadmap with specific deliverables and timelines alongside an assessment and monitoring mechanism.
GMES and Africa has an embedded framework to strengthen African institutions and stakeholders with EO data and products, with the aim of delivering value added services to targeted users. These services are expected to be developed through co-creation between specialized European institutions, Copernicus entities, and existing African consortia in a spirit of partnership. The co-creation is to integrate upstream data access and downstream data processing for product delivery. It should also include other African Institutions of Interest that are not part of GMES and Africa.
The meeting brings together technical experts of the programme management team from the African Union Commission, consortia leaders, project coordinators, data experts and representatives of European partner institutions.
More information
- The Concept Note
- The Agenda
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