Inclusion of Weather, Climate in STC status vital - Mukabana

NaijaAgroNet:

The Director of the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (inclusion of Meteorology and precisely weather and climate, in the established Specialized Technical Committees of the African Union, is vital AMCOMET) Secretariat in Geneva, Dr Joseph Romanus Mukabana, has stressed the inclusion of Weather and Climate Services in STC, reports NaijaAgroNet.

Dr. Mukabana made this known at the sideline of the newly inaugurated STC and underscored the importance of inclusion of Meteorology, saying that Weather and Climate information and Services provided by the WMO National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) in the amelioration of impacts of natural disasters caused by Weather and Climate extremes to the vulnerable communities in Africa.

 

Mukabana, who doubles as Director of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Office for Africa and Least Developed Countries (AFLCD), noted that Weather and Climate information and services provided by the WMO National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) in the amelioration of impacts of natural disasters caused to the vulnerable communities in Africa, could not be overlooked.

“The inclusion of Meteorology and precisely weather and climate, in the established Specialized Technical Committees of the African Union, is vital,” he declared.

This, he explained is imperative, considering their importance to human lives in the region.

He also expressed the hope that this suggestion by WMO would be considered by STC to afford Weather and Climate issues assume a cardinal part of the operational modality of the Union (AU)”, he maintained.

NaijaAgroNet recalled that in April 2010, the first Conference of Ministers Responsible for Meteorology in Africa, through the Nairobi Declaration, established the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) as a high-level policy mechanism for the development of meteorology and its applications in Africa. AMCOMET is the inter-governmental authority on Meteorology in Africa.

+Remmy Nweke (ITRealms) in Addis Ababa 

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e-agriculture prize goes to CTA @ WSIS’13

l-r Ken Lohento and Giacomo Rambaldi displaying the prize

The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) has emerged top in the e-agriculture category of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Projects Prize 2013, which held in Geneva at the weekend.

Official of ICT4D Programme unit at Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), Ms Maureen Agena, disclosed this to NaijaAgroNet, describing it as a great news from Geneva, for the global agric community.

She said that the CTA's Web 2.0 and Social Media Learning Opportunities, has been announced as winner of WSIS Project Prizes 2013 contest in the category C7 on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Applications: e-Agriculture.

“Congratulations to our colleagues Giacomo Rambaldi and Ken Lohento for their outstanding work on this initiative!” she declared, appreciating all those who have been part of this initiative, and to those who voted for the project in the context of the WSIS prizes.

NaijaAgroNet recalls that WSIS Project Prize was established in 2011 to evaluate and reward stakeholders for the success of their efforts in implementing development-oriented strategies that leverage the power of information and communication technologies.

The WSIS Project Prizes initiative is now an integral part of the WSIS Stocktaking Process established in 2004.

The contest of WSIS Project Prizes is open to all stakeholders: governments, private sector, civil society, international organizations, academia and others, which comprises 18 categories that are directly linked to the WSIS Action Lines outlined in the Geneva Plan of Action.

 

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