What

Please, join the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Subgroup of the GEO Programme Board in our 2024 webinar series and be inspired by engaging stories from around the world that celebrate gender, indigenous people and youth perspectives in the Earth observation community. These webinars will be held as the world is recognizing women, indigenous people, and youth on their United Nations designated International Days.

The theme of the 2024 UN International Youth Day is From Clicks to Progress: Youth Digital Pathways for Sustainable In this webinar GEO EDI invite representatives from the GEO Youth community to share their perspectives and tell stories about working on the use of Earth observations. We will discuss how Youth communities sees the potential in Earth observations to support sustainable development.

Why now?

Celebrating the UN International Youth Day is a welcomed way to create awareness about GEO and how the Youth sees the potential in Earth observation data and knowledge sharing. It is exciting to learn about the perspectives of the younger generations. This webinar is one of many ways GEO follow-up the GEO Youth statement and make their voices heard and inspire a wider younger community.

Who is it for?

This webinar aims to reach the youth, and all individuals within Global Earth observation community, scientists, data experts, innovation community, trainers, educators, researchers, applied scientists and policy makers.