Scientists urge Africa to embrace geo-spatial tech to achieve development goals
Scientists started a three-day international conference on Wednesday by calling on sub-Saharan Africa to adopt geo-spatial technologies to help achieve United Nations anti-poverty goals.
The director general of the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Emmanuel Nkurunziza, said such technologies offer avenues for governments in fast tracking decision-making in achieving 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“Once policy-makers in the region resort to application of science, the goals will be achieved within a given time frame,” Nkurunziza said during the opening of the first space science conference in Nairobi.
He told policy-makers to upscale the application of the science since RCMDR has experts who are ready to help them explore the possibility of prioritizing space science to help spur growth in their countries.
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