Supplementing the ground infrastructure, the development of customized solutions utilizing space-based systems are of particular interest for developing countries. Sustainable and reliable service provisioning is of particular importance for the cooperation with Africa to which many international donors (such as EU and World Bank) give a high priority. The establishment of close partnerships with African organisations and communities in the fields of scientific research, education, technology and applications is a prerequisite for the development of demand-driven projects meeting user-needs.

Satellite African e-HEalth Validation

The SAHEL initiative is a demonstration project for telemedicine service in Sub-Saharan Africa. The project will define and implement an operational pilot system connecting some isolated areas in both Western and Eastern countries of the Sub-Saharan region with medical centres of excellence for clinical services and eLearning. It is the first building block of a large pan-African network for telemedicine, in line with the TTF (Telemedecine Task Force) objectives.

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