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Type	Voluntary commitment by other stakeholders
Organisation	CANEUS International
Scope	Global
Themes	Addressing systemic issues; Agriculture and food security; Cross-cutting areas; Data, monitoring, and follow-up; Domestic and international private business and finance; Environment; International public finance; International trade as an engine for development; Science, technology, innovation and capacity building; Small and medium enterprises; jobs; Social sectors

Description

The need for the �山����driven global initiative is responsive to the national/ regional and globally interconnected disaster and environmental management efforts, which involves every country and knows no geographic boundaries.

Recently, CANEUS together with participants from UNISDR, UNOOSA, UNDP and World Bank’s GFDRR launched the �山����GlobalSat initiative at Sendai, Japan http://www.caneus.org/undrr/ The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 was adopted by �山����Member States on 18 March 2015.

The key findings and lessons learned revealed that the time has come to develop a Global constellation which should be put at the service of the United Nations to better fulfil their commitments in the post-2015 DRR Framework; for simplicity the proposed initiative is called �山����GlobalSat. The Commitment is to advance the �山����GlobalSat concept for consideration and endorsement by the �山����General Assembly.

The �山����GlobalSat initiative is a collaborative effort aimed to develop a means of seamlessly sharing and managing space data between Europe, USA, Asia and Africa by creating global framework for “accessible space data”.

Vision for the �山����Global-Sat is to create a common platform that allows sharing of space and data segments with its ability to serve as a strong tool for nation’s safety, security and socio-economic needs. The eventual goal is to establish a public/private partnership that would create a low-cost, internationally shared data collection and distribution backbone in space with little or no barriers to entry for participating nations.

The Sendai Framework has already succeeded in formulating a coordinated approach to the sharing of space data on a global scale through the proposed �山����Global-Sat. The proposed commitment for the �山����GlobalSat concept to be fully operational and enable the �山����Member states to contribute and enhance the scope of the global accessible space data project to serve their needs.

Partners

UNISDR
UNOOSA
GFDRR – World Bank
UNDP
UNESCAP

Targets

• CANEUS mandated to make a formal GlobalSat proposal for consideration and endorsement by the UN.
• Invite and request �山����Member countries to join and support GlobalSat
• Identify main stakeholders to participate in the GlobalSat formulation phase
• Define technical, policy, and financial issues, and to frame a public/private partnership implementation plan for the �山����GlobalSat accessible data framework contributing to the post-2015 global sustainable development commitments.

• July-Sept 2015
(a) gather inputs from community
(b) Continue work with �山����member States and agencies to refine the GlobalSat concept
• Sept 2015
(a) formal GlobalSat proposal for consideration to UN
(b) gather membership, select partners and financial support, and establish Board of Governors
(c) official rollout of the program at the 70th United Nations Session in NY
• Jan 2016 – 2018
(a) Execution
(b) First batch of satellites launched within one year through leverage on commercially available solution for platforms and payloads
(c) Initial data management infrastructure in place by first launch
(d) Growth and refinement by 6-12 months iterations

Indicators

• Affordable – low barrier of entry
• Sustainable – continue operations over many years to achieve resilience
• Adaptable – high refresh-rate (6-12 months) to continually improve data gathering capabilities based on lessons learned
• Scalable – expansion to sustain growing need and achieve global coverage (space and time)

• GlobalSat solution is part technical product and part educational and empowerment
• Focus is on capacity building
• GlobalSat can assimilate information of other space assets to enhance data processing and interpretation
• GlobalSat puts the local entities in the driving seat and empower them into a self-sustainable system for them to manage.
• Current solutions usually put private companies on the driving seat.

Enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of response by analyzing a combination of remotely sensed satel¬lite, socioeconomic and in-situ data to better mitigate natural hazard risks for the future.

• Common nano-satellite platform
• Payloads built all over the world and dedicated to gather data:
• Platform / Payload Integration can be done in states that build the payloads
• Secondary benefits for local economy
• All data collected and available /distributed both raw and post-processed to the participating countries
• Leverage on each other

Resources

• Each country contributes to a central organization that manages this program
• Contribution based on membership usage
• Funding and/or assets and services rendered in support of the Global-Sat System
• Additional funding as needed to be gathered from philanthropic organizations or other financial institution (with �山����approval)
• Board of Governors supervision assures management of funding
• Through Public-Private-Partnerships, contribution can come from government agencies or by private companies with established local relationship and commitments
• E.g. private companies can offset previous credits accrued with local governments
• Central organization
• Purchases block of platforms and distributes them to participating countries
• Coordinates payloads’s development and facilitates efforts
• Creates infrastructure for the entire effort

• Data is available at no extra fee
“Spending on disaster management is an investment, not a risk. As such we should strive for the best ROI for each investor”

Timeframe

• Jan 2016 – 2018