Africa is the new Eldorado for space business: Dr. Tidiane Ouattara, Space Science Expert at AUC

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“Africa is the new Eldorado for space business. In addition to the established space agencies and institutions such as ASAL in Algeria, NARSADA in Nigeria, SANSA in South Africa, NARSS in Egypt, the African continent boasts of thriving space institutions and centers in Ghana, Ethiopia, and Kenya among other countries, with national remote sensing centers as well as research and development institutions involved in space matters”, says Dr. Tidiane Ouattara, GMES and Africa Coordinator and Space Science Expert at the African Union Commission, who delivered a keynote at the Global Conference on Space for Emerging Countries (GLEC2019) on behalf of the Director of Human Resources, Science and Technology of the African Union Commission. The three-day conference kicked off Wednesday in Marrakech, Morocco, under the theme Bridging the Space Divide in Emerging Countries.

Left to Right: Dr. Tidiane Ouattara, Space Science Expert at AUC , Jean Yves Le Gall (the president of the French Space Agency - CNES) and Driss El Hadani (Director General of the Royal Center for Spatial Remote Sensing of Morocco).

Dr. Ouattara posited that Africa’ s future is indeed intertwined with space, which has a role in addressing the knowledge gap, safety and security challenges, employment as well as innovation. The African Outer Space programme, he continued, will contribute to ensuring that Africa has its rightful share in the global commons, taking full charge of its space, land and oceans. The African Union’s space model is designed to address the drawbacks and utilize space towards sustainable development for more than fifty emerging countries in Africa, Dr. Ouattara added.

The Conference featured the benefits of space technology and applications to socio-economic development. The GLEC 2019 brings together representatives of renowned players in the space and remote sensing industry from all over the world.

The Agenda 2063 has identified the African Outer Space Programme among the African Union flagship programmes. The African Space Policy and Strategy enable African countries to approach space activities with a common agenda, strategy and pool of resources to maximize the benefits derived from space and to harness space science, technology and innovations for Africa’s growth and transformation. The Policy and Strategy offer a framework and aim to create the African Outer Space Programme as the platform to coordinate and harmonize all space activities in the continent for sustainable socio-economic development and to facilitate the development of skills as well as knowledge and expertise among Member States.

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