[IRTalk] 21 projects will be awarded $1.5 million USD worth of cloud services (Earth Observation Cloud Credits Programme)

[Ina Smith]

Congratulations to the following African projects!

Title
Institution
Country
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Cairo University, Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Department
Egypt
Computing Groundwater Potential in Arid and Semi-arid parts of Ethiopia.
Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy
Ethiopia
Capacity Building on Monitoring of SDGs
Remote Sensing and Climate Center
Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute
Ghana
agriBORA - Geodata for actionable farm intelligence
Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization
(KALRO)
Kenya
Operational monitoring system of ground deformations in
Nigeria
Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying, University of Nigeria
Nigeria
Spatial Agricultural Intelligence
African Regional Institute for Geospatial Information Science and Technology (AFRIGIST)
Nigeria
Air Quality Forecasting for Africa
Kigali Collaborative Research Center (KCRC)
Rwanda
AfriCultuReS Decision Support System (ADSS) Community Version
South African National Space Agency
South Africa



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Subject: 21 projects will be awarded $1.5 million USD worth of cloud services
Date: 11 June 2019 at 12:21:33 CEST
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Dear Colleagues,
Yesterday, the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) announced the 21 projects from 17 developing countries that will be awarded $1.5 million USD worth of cloud services<http://earthobservations.org/article.php?id=362>, grants and technical support through the Earth Observation Cloud Credits Programme.
Under the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI), this programme will enable Earth observations to support sustainable development across a wide range of applications.
Please join us as we congratulate all of the winning projects that demonstrate the enormous potential of Earth observations for impact.
Read the full News Article here<http://earthobservations.org/article.php?id=362>.
View the full list of awardees here.<http://earthobservations.org/article.php?id=362#awarded_projects>
Please feel free to tweet and share with your networks:
Congratulations to the 21 projects from 17 developing countries awarded $1.5 million USD worth of cloud services from Amazon Web Services. All winning projects will advance #Earthobservation for impact #EO4impact @AWS_Gov @GEOSEC2025 https://bit.ly/31qTPKo

This is one of the approaches that the GEO Secretariat has taken to work with the commercial sector. There is also now a membership category available for private sector organisations to become Associate Members of GEO. More information can be found here<http://www.earthobservations.org/article.php?id=347>.

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