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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Digital Earth Africa [1][2] will transform the continent’s capacity to process and analyze satellite data for better decision making across many areas, including water, forest
and coastal resource management, agriculture, and urban development. This is a good example of bridging the Geospatial Digital Divide. I am grateful to all colleagues working on this excellent initiative.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) will host the Digital Earth Africa Day on 12th August 2019 on the sidelines of the RCMRD International Conference & 4th AfriGEOSS Symposium
taking place at the RCMRD Campus,Nairobi, Kenya. Details at </span><a href="http://ric2019.rcmrd.org" id="LPlnk952662" class="x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">http://ric2019.rcmrd.org</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">AfriGEO Symposium is an initiative of the African community in Group on Earth Observations framework.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD)</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> hosting
the new AfriGEO </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Secretariat [3] will add momentum for
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">advancing open data and Earth observations across Africa.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I am grateful to all colleagues working for bridging the digital divide and help create a world that is more accessible, equitable and full of innovation and opportunities
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Best wishes,</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Suchith</span></p>
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<span style="color:#454545"><span style="font-size:11pt">[1] </span><a href="http://www.ga.gov.au/digitalearthafrica" id="LPlnk251003" class="x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:rgb(228,175,10); font-size:11pt">http://www.ga.gov.au/digitalearthafrica</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="color:#454545"><span style="font-size:11pt">[2[ </span><a href="https://www.opendatacube.org" id="LPlnk44390" class="x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:rgb(228,175,10); font-size:11pt">https://www.opendatacube.org</span></a></span><br>
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<span style="color:#454545"><span style="font-size:11pt">[3] </span><a href="https://www.earthobservations.org/article.php?id=357" id="LPlnk728743" class="x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:rgb(228,175,10); font-size:11pt">https://www.earthobservations.org/article.php?id=357</span></a></span><br>
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