Ten years after Unispace III
- Paper number
IAC-10.E1.3.2
- Author
Mr. Michel Laffaiteur, France
- Year
2010
- Abstract
March 2010 \begin{center}Michel Laffaiteur World Space Week Association Vice-President, in charge of the strategy \end{center} In July 1999, the United Nations convened in Vienna - where sits the Committee on the Peaceful uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) - the third world conference on space, Unispace III, whose theme was "Space in 21st century: beneficial effects for the humanity ". Its objective aimed at encouraging the use of the space techniques to try to solve problems of regional or world importance and to strengthen the capacities of Member States, in particular those of developing countries, to allow them to use the space applications for their economic, social and cultural development. The main purpose of the international Conference was to help developing countries to use space applications by facilitating education and training. On several points, significant progresses, some insufficient known, were achieved during the last ten years, such as: • The creation or the reinforcement of the regional training centres of the United Nations, • The creation in 2000 (by CNES and ESA, following the announcement of this initiative during the conference Unispace III) of a system managing the consequences of natural or industrial disasters, • The implementation of team of voluntary countries, from 2001, to quickly make progress for the most important recommendations of the conference. Isolated initiatives were taken, but they cannot assure a sufficient level of resources. The paper will emphazises on how make real progresses in order to give hope to developing countries, mainly in educational programmes.- Abstract document
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