🎉Celebrating EOTEC DevNet: 5 Years of Collaboration Across the EO Community🎉

In 2021, global EO capacity building providers committed to a simple idea: collaborate more to leverage resources and maximize impact. 

Today, that commitment has grown into EOTEC DevNet, the Earth Observation Education, Training and Capacity Development Network.

Over five years, EOTEC has helped extend the global reach of EO capacity development through:

🎂A vibrant community of 2,300+ people from 622 organizations and 121 countries, connecting through meet-ups, social media and knowledge exchange opportunities. (LinkedIn, X, YouTube)

🎂Platforms to align capacity building activities and identify gaps, including Annual EO Training Providers Roundtables

🎂Interactive guidance on EO Capacity Building needs assessment

🎂Products to help users discover and access tools and data, including:

• Flood and Drought Tools Trackers
• A searchable Places to Find Training tool

All of these efforts were supported by volunteers from across the four regional Communities of Practice (CoP) who contributed their experience and expertise. 

EOTEC DevNet was launched in 2021 under the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Working Group on Capacity Development and Data Democracy (WGCapD), with early leadership from NASA, ISRO, DLR, WMO, GEO, EO College and UNOOSA’s Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CRECTEALC), among others. 

These same agencies now serve as EOTEC’s leadership partners.

5th Anniversary Activities

Over the next several months, we will augment our normal activities with a communications highlighting our people and our work, with:

• Insights from the community members who drive EOTEC, especially our regional CoP leads
• Lessons we’ve learned on collaboration and networks 
• Plans for the next five years
• Valuable partnerships across the drought and flood communities
• The origins of EOTEC

We will also engage the community in discussion about gaps, ways to strengthen the network and critical actions to ensure EO capacity opportunities reach anyone who wants them. 

While the 5-year anniversary is an important milestone, the need for accessible, relevant EO capacity development has never been greater. From droughts to floods to resilience, the demand for Earth observation-informed decision-making continues to grow.

We look forward to the next five years!

Stay tuned!  Check this website and follow us on social media to get anniversary updates and other news. 

Thanks for all you’ve done to help EOTEC come this far!