GEO Work Plan Symposium Capacity Building Side Event

1 May 2014GEO Work Plan Symposium, Geneva

Gregory GiulianiUniversity of GenevaUNEP/GRID-Geneva

Andiswa Mlisa (GEO)Hilcea Ferrira (INPE)

Background

The aim of this session is to bring together people interested in capacity development and to share experience. Capacity development is one of those typical subjects that everyone considers a priority, but almost never gets the priority it deserves. One of the main issues is the capturing of capacity development activities and initiatives and the accessibility of capacity development material.

The aim of this side-event is to share information on capacity building activities, programmes, especially from developing countries and to look at possibilities for cooperation and coordination between existing resource facilities.

Program outline

• Session 1: General presentations on GEO/GEOSS CB activities

• Session 2: National/regional CB activities

• Session 3: Concept of CB System of Systems & EOPOWER/IASON resource facility portal

• Session 4: Discussion/Wrap-up > What needs to be done to improve CB in GEO/GEOSS?

Program outline08:30 - 08:35 Introduction to the session [Gregory Giuliani - UNIGE]08:35 - 08:55 Bringing GEOSS services into practice [Pierre Lacroix - UNIGE]08:55 - 09:15 AfriGEOSS needs for capacity development [Andiswa Mlisa - GEO]09:15 - 09:35 POGO Capacity Building Activities [Sophie Seeyave - POGO]09:35 - 09:55 Progress in EO Capdev using the GEONETCast data dissemination system of GEO [Chris

Mannaerts - ITC]09:55 - 10:15 CODATA Capacity Building activities [Simon Hodson – CODATA]

10:10 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:05 Capacity Building Performance Indicators [Nourredine Filali – Maroc Météo]11:05 - 11:25 US Earth Observations activities in developing countries [USA]11:25 - 11:45 Earth Observations capacity building activities in Nigeria [Ganiy Agbaje - TBC]11:45 - 12:05 CEOS Capacity Building activities - WGCapD [Hilcea Ferreira - INPE, Brazil]12:05 - 12:25 Capacity Building in South-America [Hilcea Ferreira – INPE, Brazil]12:25 - 12:45 Earth Observations capacity building activities in Nigeria [Mario Hernandez - TBC]12:45 - 13:05 The EOPOWER resource facility and connection with other resource facilities [JC

Desconnets, IRD]13:05 - 13:25 The concept of Capacity Building System of Systems [JC Desconnets, IRD]13:25 - 13:45 Discusson, Wrap-Up > What needs to be done to improve CB in GEO?

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