Posted on: October 09, 2014
The SAFIR2 (Satellite navigation services for AFrIcan Region) project is pleased to announce the completion of the recruitment of the EGNOS-Africa Joint Programme Office (JPO) staff. Ten Experts (1 Director – 1 Deputy Director – 1 GNSS Programme Manager – 1 Certification and Safety Expert – 1 Legal and Economic Expert – 2 GNSS Experts – 1 Aviation Application Expert – 1 Sister Application Expert – 1 Operation Expert) are now on duty in Dakar.
Before joining the JPO, all the JPO staffs were trained in Trieste (Italy) under the sister Project TREGA (TRaining for EGnos in Africa) led by UNESCO/ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics). The JPO is housed in an independent building in the Almadies area of Dakar, together with the ICAO Flight Procedures Programme for Africa-Indian Ocean region. The premises are made available by ASECNA as part of its kind contribution to both Projects.
The missions of the EGNOS-Africa Joint Programme Office (JPO) are: to define the baseline and to oversee the subsequent implementation phases for the specification and procurement of the development and deployment of GNSS/EGNOS in Africa.
The SAFIR Project and the JPO are supporting a number of technical Working Sessions, composed of regional stakeholders concerned with GNSS/EGNOS in sub-Saharan Africa, which address all aspects of EGNOS-Africa system implementation in preparation of the infrastructure deployment phase, including governance, certification policy, liability policy, legal aspects, services provision, applications, as well as system performance and maintenance. The outputs of these Working Sessions are feeding into the GNSS/EGNOS Services Implementation Roadmap for sub-Saharan Africa, currently under development by the SAFIR Project Implementation Team and the JPO staffs.
The EGNOS-Africa Joint Programme Office (JPO) is a pan-African entity that acts for the benefit of Africa and supports Stakeholders in their GNSS/EGNOS strategy, developments and implementation.
For further information, please contact: Ladislaus Matindi Olivier TURCAS JPO Director SAFIR Team Leader Ladislaus.Matindi@egnos-africa.com oturcas@orange.fr Mob: +221 78 166 06 64 Mob: +221 77 528 69 63