{"id":1211,"date":"2019-08-14T13:59:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T13:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2019-08-14T13:59:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T13:59:01","slug":"african-countries-urged-to-embrace-geospatial-techs-to-promote-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/african-countries-urged-to-embrace-geospatial-techs-to-promote-development","title":{"rendered":"African countries urged to embrace geospatial techs to promote development"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on Tuesday urged African countries to exert concerted efforts to embrace advancements in the geospatial technologies sector so as to realize Africa\u2019s development agenda.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The urgent call was made by Oliver Chinganya, Director of the African Centre for Statistics (ACS) at the ECA, who stressed the ECA\u2019s special emphasis to developments in the geospatial technologies sector as a major driving force to Africa\u2019s development aspirations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ECA views geospatial technology as a significant component that will help push Africa\u2019s transformative development agenda even further,\u201d an ECA statement quoted Chinganya as saying on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

According to the ECA, even though Africa\u2019s current demographic trends, including rapid urbanization, represent major economic opportunities, such demographic trends also \u201crepresent real challenges with regard to human welfare and infrastructure needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese issues affect citizens, businesses and the community at large,\u201d Chinganya said, adding \u201cefforts are being made by the ECA to support African countries to work out strategies and policies to tackle the challenges in the various sectors of development.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ECA also stressed that investments in geospatial technologies are crucial as the continent encounters major challenges, including climate change, disaster risk, food security, water scarcity, energy shortage, health related problems, environmental stresses and food crisis.<\/p>\n

Chinganya, who is also the Head of Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resources Management Division at the ECA, further stressed that the ECA \u201cunderstands that it is imperative for every African country to deliver relevant information that can promote and sustain economic growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is therefore of greater importance to have access to real time and precise spatial information, given Africa\u2019s size and complex biophysical environment, to support effective decision-making,\u201d Chinganya added.<\/p>\n

The ECA also urged African countries and pan African institutions to embrace geospatial technologies as key development indicators are at risk of quickly becoming out-dated and of limited value to understanding the scale, speed and locations of newly developing urban areas and informal settlements.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is therefore imperative for information with a geospatial component to inform the continents sustainable planning and development,\u201d the ECA affirmed.<\/p>\n

The ECA, however, commended improving trends in Africa as African governments and other sectors of society \u201chave become increasingly aware of the importance of geospatial science and technology as a tool to facilitate spatial data collection, access and use in the decision-making processes, both nationally and regionally.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the ECA\u2019s specialized agency on statistics, African Centre for Statistics (ACS), geospatial technologies are \u201cgradually becoming the driving force of many applications and services from land administration to natural resource management to agriculture across countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Figures from ACS also revealed that African countries such as Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, as well as Rwanda are among the list of major African countries that have witnessed the benefits of geospatial technologies and applications.<\/p>\n

The ECA also called for \u201cgeospatial data revolution\u201d in Africa, which he said would require wider and easier access to geospatial data, as well as accuracy and consistency of geospatial data over its entire life cycle.<\/p>\n

The ECA\u2019s call towards the development of geospatial technologies in Africa is also included in the global agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015, as well as Africa\u2019s 50-year development Agenda 2063, which was approved by the African Union (AU) in January 2015.<\/p>\n

Both the SDGs and the Agenda 2063 emphasize the need for a global and continental coordination mechanism for geospatial information management respectively.<\/p>\n

The UN, which previously disclosed the Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development in Africa initiative, had also disclosed that the UN\u2019s African action plan on geospatial information, covering the period from 2016 to 2030, requires a total provisional budget of 154 million U.S. dollars. Enditem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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