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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThis photo of everyone\u2019s smiling faces provides a sense of the scale of the network so far – and the enthusiasm of the group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Presentations from our partners highlighted key areas of common interest and collaboration to support the growth and impact of DE Africa at scale. There were several common themes which highlighted just some of the ways in which the network can collaborate, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Product development and validation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Our partners are working together to develop and conduct validation for DE Africa products including Water Observations from Space<\/a>, Crop Land Mapping<\/a> and fractional cover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Use case development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Live sessions are bringing together a community of users of the DE Africa platform to raise awareness and understanding about how the data can be used to address challenges across the continent. Use cases are being developed to help demonstrate relevant applications of the platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Capacity development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Building capacity is key to enabling organisations across Africa to use data from Earth observation. Our partners are crucial to making this happen and their involvement in workshops and webinars<\/a> has been fantastic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Communications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Our communications network will work together to ensure that information about DE Africa is reaching the people who would benefit from it most. A great spread of partners from across the continent will help to ensure the product offering is tailored to local requirements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n GEDSI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The DE Africa program is founded on equality and diversity. Ensuring a range of partners from different backgrounds helps us to ensure that DE Africa really is for everyone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As a Community Activity of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO<\/a>), DE Africa also benefits from global input and support, including from AfriGEO \u2014 GEO\u2019s regional initiative in Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We are so grateful to our network of partners for their collaboration and enthusiasm, and look forward to growing together into the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n View our full list of partners\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Join our Stakeholder Community Group here<\/a> where you will receive quarterly updates about the program and information about how to get involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Email us at info@digitalearthafrica.org<\/a> or fill out the form here<\/a> if you\u2019d like more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Partnership is at the heart of the Digital Earth Africa program and we are proud to be collaborating with a range of influential organizations from across the African continent. By establishing this close network we can work together to improve lives by getting Earth observation (EO) data into the hands of decision makers, empowering and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"audience":[],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-partnerships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}