Geoscience Information in Africa - Network

GIRAF Mission:
Support that knowledge-based geoscience information
contributes to improve the environmental & economic prosperity
of the people in Africa.

GIRAF 2013 - The 3rd Geoscience InfoRmation in AFrica Workshop
From 23rd - 27th September 2013 the 3rd GIRAF Workshop will take place in Accra (Ghana). The event will be organized by the CGI together with AusAID's International Mining for Development Centre (IM4DC), the UNESCO and BGR. The workshop will take place to coincide with the centennial celebrations of the Geological Survey of Ghana who have kindly offered to host the meeting. The main subject will be „Geoscience Information and Sustainable Mining“. Register your participation now: GIRAF 2013 REGISTRATION FORM Kristine Asch, BGR, Germany & Robin Evans, IM4DC, Australia (organizers)

GIRAF 2013 - The 3rd Geoscience InfoRmation in AFrica Workshop

From 23rd - 27th September 2013 the 3rd GIRAF Workshop will take place in Accra (Ghana). The event will be organized by the CGI together with AusAID's International Mining for Development Centre (IM4DC), the UNESCO and BGR. The workshop will take place to coincide with the centennial celebrations of the Geological Survey of Ghana who have kindly offered to host the meeting. The main subject will be „Geoscience Information and Sustainable Mining“.

Kristine Asch, BGR, Germany & Robin Evans, IM4DC, Australia (organizers)

Contribute to the GIRAF Network Newsletter!
Dear GIRAF members! To submit content to the GIRAF Network Newsletter, please email us your article(s) at geoscienceinformationinafrica@gmail.com. Do send information on any geo-science information news, opportunities and events, relevant to Africa along with your name and email address. For any photos, please include your name, email, and your consent for the GIRAF Network to use your photos and artwork in our newsletter. If you would like your profile displayed in the GIRAF newsletter, you may submit the profile for inclusion. Please send your information and photos to us at geoscienceinformationinafrica@gmail.com.com and remember to give us written consent to use them. The Publication Team

Contribute to the GIRAF Network Newsletter!

Dear GIRAF members!

To submit content to the GIRAF Network Newsletter, please email us your article(s) at geoscienceinformationinafrica@gmail.com. Do send information on any geo-science information news, opportunities and events, relevant to Africa along with your name and email address. For any photos, please include your name, email, and your consent for the GIRAF Network to use your photos and artwork in our newsletter.
If you would like your profile displayed in the GIRAF newsletter, you may submit the profile for inclusion. Please send your information and photos to us at geoscienceinformationinafrica@gmail.com.com and remember to give us written consent to use them.

The Publication Team

Giraf

The Aims of GIRAF are:

Build a pan-African geoscience information knowledge network of geological surveys, universities and companies.
Exchange and share geoscience information and good practice.
Bring together relevant African authorities, national experts and stakeholders in geoscience information.
Make Africa a more active part of the international geoscience information community.
Stimulate and support cross-border geoscience information projects in Africa.
Gather and review up-to-date feedback on the actual situation of geoscience information status and progress in Africa.
Review the progress of the GIRAF network as set up at the 1st workshop in Namibia 2009.
In the long run improve the way geoscience information contributes to improve the health and prosperity of the people in Africa.

Interview with Prof. Aberra Mogessie, President of the GSAf, Member of the GIRAF Steering Committee:

Professor Aberra Mogessie, President of the GSAf, calls for sustainable management of the continent’s resources, further focus on Africa’s young people and emphasises the need for developed countries to view Africa as a partner to work with rather than a continent in need of help. in International Innovation, Research Media

[Interview with Professor Aberra Mogessie, President of the GSAf (PDF, 912 KB)]

New GIRAF Media:

GIRAF Newsletter

Issue 2 - May 2013

[GIRAF Newsletter - Issue 2 (PDF, 986 KB)]

GIRAF Flyer

May 2012

[GIRAF Flyer (PDF, 1 MB)]

Upcoming EVENTS:
	International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 21^st – 26^th July 2013 Melbourne, Australia http://www.igarss2013.org/
	GIRAF 2013 Workshop 23^rd - 27^th September 2013 Accra, Ghana http://www.giraf-network.org

Contact 1:

Dr. Felix Toteu

E-Mail: Felix.Toteu@unesco.org

Contact 2:

Dr. Kristine Asch

Phone: +49-(0)511-643-3324

Fax: +49-(0)511-643-3782

E-Mail: Kristine.Asch@bgr.de

BGR Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe

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Geoscience Information in Africa - Network

The Aims of GIRAF are:

Build a pan-African geoscience information knowledge network of geological surveys, universities and companies.

Exchange and share geoscience information and good practice.

Bring together relevant African authorities, national experts and stakeholders in geoscience information.

Make Africa a more active part of the international geoscience information community.

Stimulate and support cross-border geoscience information projects in Africa.

Gather and review up-to-date feedback on the actual situation of geoscience information status and progress in Africa.

Review the progress of the GIRAF network as set up at the 1st workshop in Namibia 2009.

In the long run improve the way geoscience information contributes to improve the health and prosperity of the people in Africa.

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