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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style="">GEO Secretariat <<a href="mailto:secretariat@GEOSEC.ORG" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk876241" previewremoved="true">secretariat@GEOSEC.ORG</a>><br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span class="" style=""><b class="">21 projects will be awarded $1.5 million USD worth of cloud services</b><br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">Date: </b></span><span class="" style="">11 June 2019 at 12:21:33 CEST<br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">To: </b></span><span class="" style=""><a href="mailto:GEO-NEWS@LIST.GEOSEC.ORG" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk756767" previewremoved="true">GEO-NEWS@LIST.GEOSEC.ORG</a><br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span class="" style="">GEO Secretariat <<a href="mailto:secretariat@GEOSEC.ORG" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk686221" previewremoved="true">secretariat@GEOSEC.ORG</a>><br class="">
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<span lang="EN-GB" class="">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" class="">Yesterday, the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) announced the 21 projects from 17 developing countries that will be <a href="http://earthobservations.org/article.php?id=362" target="_blank" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk500511" style="color:blue" previewremoved="true">awarded $1.5
million USD worth of cloud services</a>, grants and technical support through the Earth Observation Cloud Credits Programme.</span></p>
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Under the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI), this programme will enable Earth observations to support sustainable development across a wide range of applications.</p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" class="">Please join us as we congratulate all of the winning projects that demonstrate the enormous potential of Earth observations for impact.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" class=""><span class="" style="font-size:13.33px">Read the full News Article </span><a href="http://earthobservations.org/article.php?id=362" target="_blank" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk501956" style="color:blue; font-size:13.33px" previewremoved="true">here</a><span class="" style="font-size:13.33px">. </span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" class="">View the full list of awardees <a href="http://earthobservations.org/article.php?id=362#awarded_projects" target="_blank" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk34410" style="color:blue" previewremoved="true">here.</a></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" class="">Please feel free to tweet and share with your networks:</span></p>
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<i class="">Congratulations to the 21 projects from 17 developing countries awarded $1.5 million USD worth of cloud services from Amazon Web Services. All winning projects will advance #Earthobservation for impact #EO4impact @AWS_Gov @GEOSEC2025 <a href="https://bit.ly/31qTPKo" target="_blank" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk663090" previewremoved="true">https://bit.ly/31qTPKo</a></i> <br clear="all" class="">
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<span lang="EN-GB" class="">This is one of the approaches that the GEO Secretariat has taken to work with the commercial sector. There is also now a membership category available for private sector organisations to become Associate Members of GEO. More information
can be found <a href="http://www.earthobservations.org/article.php?id=347" target="_blank" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk332581" style="color:blue" previewremoved="true">here</a>.</span></p>
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