Transcript AEGOS - African-European Georesources Observation System

African-European Georesources
Observation System and Its Role
In African Mineral Resources
Development
Ketema Tadesse – SEAMIC, Tanzania
Moussa Sylla – Ministry of Mines, Senegal
Marc URVOIS – BRGM, France
First Meeting of the ACP Ministers In Charge
Of The Development of Mining Resources
Brussels – 13-15 December 2010
Background
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Africa mineral resources potential hosts
the largest global mineral resources and
deposits except for copper, lead and zinc:
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gold 40%, cobalt 60%, PGM reserves 90%
40% of the world know reserves in
bauxite, manganese, vanadium, gold,
rhodium and diamond
A unique archive of Africa-related
geoscientific data and information exists:
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they were acquired by African and
European geoscientific organisations;
• public, disseminated, partly hard to identify
and access;
• Several formats, several languages, under
various custodianships;
• they should be identifiable and accessible
thanks to modern IT.
Has Africa been sufficiently explored for minerals and does the full potential
of its minerals been made use of for the benefit of its people?
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Why AEGOS?
 Data realises its full potential and value when made accessible
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(at affordable cost), used and disseminated.
Developing the knowledge on mineral resources potential benefits to
knowledge development on other underground natural resources
e.g. groundwater and geothermal energy.
Sustainable use of geology-related resources requires data, information
and expertise for informed decision-making.
Web-based Georesources databases are a key factor to base proper
land-use planning/ environmental management policies and to attract
local/ foreign investment both at large and small scales.
They are essential infrastructures for combining data, knowledge and
skills in support of the sustainable development policies. The role of AU,
UNECA, RECs, OAGS and the ACP Group of States is essential.
 AEGOS scope:
– Visibility and accessibility of accurate and reliable public data
– Capacity building for qualified human resources
– Efficient promotion of the available information on potential
resources with appropriate Intellectual Property Right management
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Objectives
African-European Georesources Observation System
 Strengthen the sustainable use of
underground resources in Africa by
designing the SDI for Georesources
based on interoperable geoscience
data and user-oriented services
 Safeguard, share and valorise the
knowledge and data archived in African
and European geological surveys
 Support geoscientific communities
and institutional decision-makers for
sustainable development public policies
 Elaborate common strategies for
capacity building and training
programmes
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ACP – EU initiative in FP7 RTD
 Two Phases project
 Phase 1 (2008-2011) detailed design
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of a multi-national georesources
observation system
Main targets: institutional decisionmakers, investors, geoscientific
communities and education
9 European geological surveys
8 African counterparts: geological
surveys, ministries of mines, school
of mines
4 International organisations:
EU Commission (Joint Research
Centre), CIFEG, UEMOA, SEAMIC
 Lessons learnt from past EC & African
and French-African Projects e.g.
SIGAfrique 2003-2005, Mining Sector
Support Programmes in Ghana (20022007) and Senegal (2005-2010)
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Project team – Advisory Board
Consortium of 23 partners
Advisors: AUC, UNECA, UNESCO, GSAF, OAGS, GEO, ICSU/ROA,
EuroGeoSurveys
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Infrastructure components
Skilled human
resources
Charter of
partnership
Capacity building
Training schemes
Sustainable
funding
Intellectual Property
Rights management
Standards
Innovative
projects
Operational
procedures
User-oriented
services
Hardware
Software
Networks
User-oriented
products
Data sets
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AEGOS distributed infrastructure
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Metadata on-line
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Data (on-line and off-line /
e-AEGOS)
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Products (on-line and off-line)
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Services (customised)
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Capacity building
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Data and SDI Architecture
 AEGOS Data Themes
– 4 main themes: Geology, Mineral resources, Groundwater,
Geothermal Energy Resources
– Complementary data themes: Geophysics, Geochemistry,
Boreholes, Elevation model, Topographic maps, Remote sensing
data, Administrative boundaries, Land use, Hydrology, etc.
 Definition of data specifications for the AEGOS Spatial Data
Infrastructure, a common Reference Model and metadata profiles
 Definition of standardised hardware, software, network and other
technical components as well as operational procedures required for
AEGOS-SDI
 Identifying a test-case area and relevant data sources and services
for interoperability and interdisciplinarity
 Integration with the other African SDIs developed at national and
regional levels
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Capacity Building and Training
 Identification of the gap between the existing and the required
human resources capacity for operating AEGOS
 From the responses of 25 questionnaires, only few are up to
AEGOS required knowledge level
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Goals of Capacity Building Activities
CAPACITY BUILDING
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Dissemination of standardised data
and Operational Management
AEGOS
Knowledge Baseline
Minimum Required
Knowledge Baseline
Workflow how to prepare data and IT
infrastructure for standardised dissemination
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Capacity Building and Training
 Proposing organisation and curricula
 Definition of curricula, qualifications and outline of capacity
building modules
 Definition of the training infrastructure and organisation
 Proposed training modules
 Basic training – below knowledge baseline
 Open source applications (AEGOS supported)
 Definition of curricula, qualifications and outline of capacity
building modules
 Data management (national organisation responsible)
 Foundation training – above knowledge baseline
 on the job training and basic guidelines on AEGOS basic SDI
(AEGOS supported)
 Operational training – above AEGOS required level
 Data standardisation
 Information Technology
 Operational management
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User-Oriented Products and Services
 Defining innovative user-oriented products and services. Areas
of interest refined through questionnaires in:
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Mineral resources
Construction raw materials
Groundwater
Geothermal energy
 Identification of priority research themes for preparing
innovative projects. Potential test-bed projects:
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IGRAC – groundwater monitoring
WAXI – West African Exploration Initiative
Beak – geological predictive maps of Ghana
GD-SOM-UNZA – transboundary governance maps in Copperbelt
of ZAMBIA and CONGO…
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Sustainability of AEGOS
 Sustainability of the “Georesource Observation System”
– Plan for sustainable Operation of AEGOS organisation
– Charter of Partnership including Data Sharing Recommendations
 Definition of the future organisation of the AEGOS network
throughout Africa for the commercial aspects to ensure AEGOS
sustainability but also for training, data collection, processing
and validation
 Information dissemination and promotion of AEGOS services
– AEGOS website accessed all around
– Promotion of AEGOS by all partners in different forums
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Towards AEGOS Phase 2
AEGOS – Phase 1, 2008-2011
 Infrastructure design and network
of contributors
Recent and upcoming events:
– 5 workshops in Ghana, Senegal
and South Africa (October 2010)
– Results and Final Conference:
Dakar, Senegal (April 2011)
AEGOS – Phase 2, 2012-2016
 Extension of the network of involved
African countries and RE Communities
 All partners to reach the minimum
required baselines (equipment, skills)
 Infrastructure development and
implementation
 Training of concerned persons
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Results and deliverables
at the end of the future Phase 2
 Distributed infrastructure of national
multidisciplinary data sets
 Internet and satellite-based access to public
geoscientific metadata and harmonised data
 Operational procedures and open standards to
browse interoperable spatial information
 User-oriented products and services: customised
decision-support systems
 Capacity building and training programmes
 Permanent network of institutions and
geoscientists
 Charter of partnership - Intellectual Property Right
Management
 Funding model for the sustainability of the AEGOS
infrastructure “Plan for Sustainable Operation”
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Benefits from AEGOS?
 Become an active partner in designing and implementing a modern
Spatial Data Infrastructure for georesources Africa and relevant
capacity building programmes.
 Benefit from the strength and efficiency of collective means and
actions rather than at individual level.
 Facilitate cross-border harmonisation of georesources data within
the AEGOS networks of partners
 Enhance the capacity to plan and build scenarios to better manage
the non-renewable resources wealth in minerals, aggregates and
groundwater.
 Market investment opportunities in the georesources sector
 Improve the governance taking into account the socio-economic
factors
 Further develop domestic commodities to support the economy and
meet the Millennium Development Goals (poverty reduction)
 Enhance the level of human capacities through dedicated schemes
in information technologies and SDI management
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Benefits from AEGOS Participation
by New ACP States
 ACP countries (79); Africa (48); Caribbean (16); Pacific (15)
 African countries: huge minerals, geothermal and groundwater
resources
 Caribbean: gold, copper rich, potential for geothermal
 Pacific: bauxite and alumina, potential for geothermal
 Adopt existing AEGOS-SDI and thereby save time and resources
 Human Resources development of the new ACP State in areas
where knowledge gaps are identified
 Georesources institutions in these regions to be equipped with
standardised hardware and software capable of running the
AEGOS SDI
 Facilitate access to the georesources of the new ACP states to
potential investors
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Strategic and operative relations
Strategic integration of AEGOS
Customer
relations
Operative
relations
Policy
Science
Infrastructure &
Technology
Strategic
relations
Internal needs
Training
Service
Public Relation
External relations
Products
(product sales)
AEGOS
core
System
Services
(sales of services)
External
organisation
as a
Client
Projects
(project acquisition)
Commercial/Semi commercial
Member as a
client
AEGOS Partners & Members
AEGOS Charter Partnership
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Preparing AEGOS Phase 2:
present context and opportunities
 Africa-EU Strategic partnerships, including “Science, Information
Society and Space” (Lisbon, 2007)
 Action plans (1st on going / 2nd adopted at the 3rd Africa-EU Summit
in Tripoli, Nov. 2010)
 AU-EU college-to-college meeting in June 2010, Addis Ababa:
– with participation of the Regional Economic Communities
 Bilateral cooperation on raw materials
– AUC “African Mining Vision 2050” (adopted Feb. 2009)
– EC “Raw Material Initiative” (Communications Nov. 2008 &
Nov. 2010)
– Three subjects including Geological knowledge and Skills
> Phase 2 of AEGOS organisation is the natural follow-up of the
bilateral-funded geoscientific projects and EU-funded Mining
Sector Support Programmes.
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Preparing AEGOS Phase 2:
present context and opportunities
 AEGOS corresponds to the AMV 2050 ST Action 8 “Increase the level
and quality of resource potential data”.
 AUC “African Mining Vision 2050” (adopted by AU head of states on
Feb. 2009)
– Different from past African plans by specifically clearing barriers to
advance AMV (HR development, Infrastructure improvement,
inclusive of the private sector, the academia, improve the quality of
the business environment which all complement AEGOS objectives)
– AEGOS 2 implementation will therefore strengthen the shared vision
through:
• Transparent and optimal exploitation of mineral resources,
• Assist broad based sustainable growth,
• Improve governance that would reflect on mineral resources
development,
• Improve the socio-economic development of Africa arising from the
mineral development.
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Preparing AEGOS Phase 2: Way Forward
for Short Term Implementation
 ACP Countries to develop public, harmonised and interoperable
geoscientific information systems to support the geoscientific
communities and institutional decision-makers for sustainable
development public policies.
 AEGOS is identified as a “practical example” which is technically
possible to implement as an actual example of the AU-EU joint
strategies in information systems.
 AEGOS design Phase 1 (2008-2011) should be turned into an
implementation Phase 2 (2012-2016), at ACP scale, with
appropriate funding (10th EDF?) as part of the AU-EU partnership
for the sustainable development of non-renewable underground
natural resources.
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