Fourth Space4Water Stakeholder Meeting
co-organised by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
an the
Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW)
Objectives
At the fourth Space4Water Stakeholder Meeting the community has an opportunity to meet and exchange. The objectives for the meeting include:
- Fostering knowledge exchange between Space4Water stakeholders, professionals, young professionals, and Indigenous voices;
- Presentations of country cases
- Co-developing space-based solutions for water-related challenges; and
- Identifying and addressing other ways to improve Space4Water community interaction and achiving shared objectives.
Dates and location
The workshop will take place online on 23-24 October 2024. Accepted participants will receive an email notification from the meeting organisers.
15 September 2024: Application deadline for those submitting a country case or water-related challenge to be addressed, or a draft solution to be presented and further refined during the meeting.
6 October 2024: Deadline for self-funded applicants with no technical presentation during the meeting.
Preliminary Agenda
| 23 October 2024 13:00 - 17:00 | ||
| 13:00 | Opening session | Opening remarks:
- Driss El Hadani, Deputy Director, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs - Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water - Nina Kickinger, Space4Water project lead, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs |
| 13:30 | Introduction of participants (2-3 min each) | |
| 14:40 | European Space Agency - Space Solutions | Ana Raposo, European Space Agency (ESA) |
| 15:00 | Break | |
| 15:15 | Space4Water Country Case Study - Brazil | Alexandre de Amorim Teixeira, Water and Sanitation Agency (ANA) Brazil |
| 15:45 | Space4Water Country Case Study - The Gambia | Momodou Senghore, National Early Warning and Response Mechanism Coordinating Centre (NCCRM), The Gambia |
| 16:15 | Capacity building for Indigenous communities in Costa Rica | Freddy Soria, Water, Energy and Sustainability Research Center, Catholic University of Bolivia and Karla Gonzalez Maroto, Topographer and Indigenous Voice |
| 16:35 | The Hydrography90m dataset: Present offering and future scope | Tushar Sethi, Margosa Environmental Solutions |
| 16:45 | Space4Water community session - status quo and future steps | Nina Kickinger, UNOOSA |
Registration
To be considered for participation, Space4Water stakeholders and featured professionals, young professionals and Indigenous voices can register here. Registration will open on 9 August.
If your organisation is not yet a Space4Water stakeholder, but active in using space-based technology or data for water (resource) management, hydrology or ecosystem preservation please apply to become a stakeholder first (no later than 1 September), by filling this form.
If you are a young professional using space-based technology or data for water-related issues and are not yet part of our young professionals, fill in this form (no later than 1 September).
Note: applying as a stakeholder or young professional, does not mean you applied for attending at the meeting. You need to do both to be considered for participation.