[UN SPIDER] Regional UN-SPIDER Workshop - Pacific Region, Suva, Fiji - 16 - 19 September 2008

[David STEVENS]

Dear Colleagues,

[“United Nations Regional UN-SPIDER Workshop:
Building Upon Regional Space-based Solutions for Disaster
Management and Emergency Response for the Pacific Region”]

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, the United Nations
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the Pacific
Islands Applied Geoscience Commission, with the support of the Government
of Austria, are jointly organising the above regional workshop in Suva,
Fiji from 16 - 19 September 2008.

We are attaching the Information Note together with the Application Form.
If you are a decision maker and/or an expert from an institution from
within the region that uses or would like to access and use space-based
information to support risk and disaster mananagement activities please do
consider sending in your application.

Deadline for receiving applications is 15th August 2008. Space is strictly
limited to 40 participants. For further information please contact Ms.
Natercia Rodrigues (E-mail: natercia.rodrigues at unoosa.org).

Please note that only participants from within the region will be
considered for funding support.

For interested experts from outside the Pacific region please check our
website (http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/unspider/workshops.html) for other
workshops which we are supporting as listed below and which you could
consider joining:

GEOSS/UN-SPIDER Spring School "Primera Escuela de Primavera Sobre
Soluciones Espaciales Para el Manejo de Desastres Naturales y Respuestas de
Emergencias-Inundaciones" in Santa Maria, Brazil, 08 to 12 September 2008.
Organizado por el Centro Regional de Educação em Ciência e Tecnologia
Espacial para America Latina e o Caribe - CRECTEALC - Campus Brasil
( http://www.inpe.br/crs/geodesastres). Contact person: Ms. Tania Sausen
(tania at ltid.inpe.br).  Workshop to be carried out in Spanish and
Portuguese.

"Iranian Space Agency/UN-SPIDER Regional Workshop: Building Upon Regional
Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management and Emergency Response" in
Tehran, I.R. of Iran, 06 to 08 October 2008. Organized by the Iranian Space
Agency ( http://www.isa.ir/en/). Contact person: Mr. Saman Jalayerian
(jalayerian at isa.ir). Workshop to be carried out in English.

"CRASTE-LF Workshop International - L'Outil Spatial au Service de la
Gestion des Catastrophes et des Situations d'Urgence en Afrique" in Rabat,
Morocco, 10 to 12 November 2008. Organisé par Le Centre Régional Africain
des Sciences et Technologies de l'Espace en Langue Française (CRASTE-LF)
(http://www.enssup.gov.ma/craste). Contact person: Mr. Abdelhak Trache
(trache at emi.ac.ma).  Workshop to be carried out in French.

Best regards

David

(See attached file: Information Note_UN-SPIDER Pacific Region 16-19
September 2008.pdf)

David Stevens
Programme Coordinator
UN-SPIDER
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
Vienna - Austria
Tel. ++43-(1)-26060-5631 - Skype: tazarkount
FAX ++43-(1)-260607-5631 -  E-Mail david.stevens at unoosa.org
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