UN SPIDER Caribbean Disaster Management Workshop

18 March 2008, 10:58am

We are pleased to announce the United Nations Regional UN-SPIDER Workshop: "Building Upon Regional Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management for the Caribbean"� to be held in Barbados from 08-11 July 2008.

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), through its UN-SPIDER Programme (United Nations Platform for Space-based Informationfor Disaster Management and Emergency Response), the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) Barbados and the OECS Sub-regional Office and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) are organising the workshop to contribute to helping countries within the Caribbean region
learn how to access and use space technology for disaster management and emergency response.

The attachment provides information on the workshop and a more detailed Information Note (with an Application Form) will be sent out through this mailing list in due course. It will also be available for download from our
website (www.unspider.org).

Georg MAGERL, Associate Expert
Office for Outer Space Affairs / UN-SPIDER
United Nations Office at Vienna
P.O.Box 500, A-1400 Vienna
Tel: +43-(1)-26060-4472
Fax: +43-(1)-26060-5830
E-Mail: georg.magerl@unoosa.org

www.unspider.org

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