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- Includes comprehensive analysis of different approaches taken by emerging African space faring nations
- Presents an analysis of how space is supporting civil societies in Africa, and how it can do so in future
- Written by experts in the field
Part of the book series: Studies in Space Policy (STUDSPACE, volume 27)
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Table of contents (2 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book addresses the need to support decision-makers across Africa by promoting awareness of the importance of space technologies and data to African development through the presentation of existing examples where space supports education and healthcare, and by making recommendations for further roll-out of these efforts. This is necessary because of the enduring misconception that space-related research and expenditure competes with other, more pressing, needs on the continent, when in truth space can play a major role in meeting these needs.
Accordingly, the book unpacks the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 and the critical needs they address in the African context. Secondly, it provides an analysis of the African higher education landscape and considers the network of higher education-related SDGs, their targets, and their indicators. Africa’s own development plan, Agenda 2063, is also explored. The African higher education landscape is then assessed by way of three models – the Space-Education Equation (SEE), the Benefits to Education by Space Transection (BEST), and the Enhanced Education for Sustainable Development Access and Success (EESDAS) model. The critical role of educational technologies and e-learning in bridging the educational access and success gap is appraised, as is the role of the space sector, and its technologies, applications, and data in African higher education. Finally, it explores e-health and provides an analysis of pertinent technologies required by e-health, past and present, and the opportunities and challenges it presents. Space technology can play a critical role in eliminating the barriers that are currently preventing e-health from playing a more significant role in a developing region such as sub-Saharan Africa.
Authors and Affiliations
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European Space Policy Institute, Vienna, Austria
Annette Froehlich, André Siebrits, Christoffel Kotze
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Space Supporting Africa
Book Subtitle: Volume 2: Education and Healthcare as Priority Areas in Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030
Authors: Annette Froehlich, André Siebrits, Christoffel Kotze
Series Title: Studies in Space Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61780-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61779-0Published: 20 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61782-0Published: 20 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61780-6Published: 19 December 2020
Series ISSN: 1868-5307
Series E-ISSN: 1868-5315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 205
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: African Politics, African Economics, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics