Summary of AFREF Implementation Plan

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Summary of AFREF Implementation Plan

• Dozie EzigbalikeECA Geo-information Systems
  Section

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Current AFREF Structure

• To be designed, managed and executed from within
  African
• Regional organization into
• NAFREF, WAFREF, CAFREF, EAFRAF, SAFREF
• To be executed at the national level by national
  organizations responsible for geodetic matters
• Or at least with their consent and authorization
• Technical expertise and support from the
  international geodetic community such as IAG,
  IGS, FIG, etc.

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Current Structure
Chair IAG Sub Comm 1.3d
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Current Problems

• Coordination
• Who is doing what?
• Link to programmes of Africa as defined by AUC
• Ministerial/Policy Level Support
• Government commitment to resources, international
  agreements

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Proposed Structure

• Current CODIST-Geo working group on AFREF becomes
  AFREF Technical Advisory Working Group,
• Report to AMCOST structures through the
  secretariat
• Retain membership, plus representative of UNOOSA,
  as secretariat of International Committee on GNSS
• Current International Steering Committee
  dissolves cannot have two steering committees
• New roles for non-WG members of current Steering
  Committee in scientific advisory working group

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Proposed Structure ...

• Revamp the Science and Technology Advisory Group
  into an AFREF Scientific Advisory Working Group
• New terms of reference dealing with scientific
  aspects of AFREF
• Membership to include representative of
  scientific and technical partners (e.g., IAG,
  IGS, FIG, ICA, ISPRS, Research institutions, etc)
• Report the Steering Committee of AMCOST through
  the Joint Secretariat

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Proposed Structure

• Ultimately develop into an AFREF Programme, with
  own director or manager
• Housed at ECA, i.e., ECA provides office space
  and administrative support
• Coordinate implementation, capacity building,
  review meetings, fund raising, etc
• Report to CODSIT-Geo
• Approved report submitted to African Cluster on
  Science and Technology (ACST) of African
  Ministerial Council on Science and Technology
  (AMCOST)

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Partnerships

• Identify projects and initiatives
• Different levels of participation
• Data provider
• Data archiving
• Data processing and/or computation
• Information products dissemination
• Identify what benefits for them to sign up
• Develop MoU on sharing of hardware, data, and
  products

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Data Archiving and Dissemination

• Develop specifications and selection criteria for
  data archiving and dissemination facilities.
• Develop ToR and call for bid to establish
  facilities.
• Identify two that will be upgraded with
  additional facilities to become the main data
  processing, archiving and dissemination
  facilities for AFREF

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New Structure
AMCOST
Bureau
Steering Committee
Technical Advisory Working Group
ACST
Data/Analysis Centres
Scientific Advisory Working Group
AFREF Secretariat
CODIST
ECA/ISTD
NAFREF
WAFREF
CAFREF
SAFREF
EAFREF
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Why Under AMCOST

• Vision of the AUC to build an integrated Africa
• Regional Integration to be based on sound science
  and technology
• Thus the Science and Technology Consolidated Plan
  of Action (CPA)
• Adopted by AU Executive Council decision
  EX.CL/Dec.254 (VIII) of January 2006
• CPA introduced space science and its applications
  as flagship research and development area
• AFREF being based on satellite positioning
  technologies is an application of space science
  and should be brought under AMCOST structures
• Reporting to AMCOST structures ensures that AFREF
  is in line with other CPA projects