Platform

The development of the COMUNIDAD Platform, a complex platform providing services and methods utilising Copernicus and GEOSS data and services for final users in Chile and Colombia, based on COPERNICUS services, holds immense potential to support farmers and foresters in managing their everyday activities in the field and forests. This platform will empower them to combine these data with EGNSS, opening up new avenues for efficiency and productivity.

COMUNIDAD is not just a platform; it's a collaborative effort. It aims to develop, test, and implement a framework that will utilize Copernicus data from agriculture, forestry, and rural development in Chile and Colombia. This platform will integrate solutions from various data sources, fostering a sense of shared expertise and mutual growth among public and private entities from the target countries.

The aim of this task is to organise the first introduction workshop and then regional training events and workshops in pilot CELAC countries every 6 months. Regional workshops will be organised in both pilot countries on consecutive dates. Where the main goal of each regional workshop will be to train to use the COMUNIDAD platform based on the current released version and for future final state.

COMUNIDAD will use the DIAS platform and mainly reuse existing platforms and projects’ results, mainly from FATIMA, STARGATE, FOODIE, SDI4Apps, and DataBio projects, and it will develop in close cooperation between CELAC and European scientists, developers, public organisations, NGOs and users- solutions to address regional agriculture/forestry of great economic, environmental, societal and political relevance and will make appropriate efforts to organise the COMUNIDAD Platform that will integrate the existing data and use the experiences of the consortium in HUB4Everybody (H4E) development, MapWhiteboard, FIE20 application and in situ measurements based on AgroNode telemetry units.

By organizing the COMUNIDAD Platform, the project will not only facilitate access to Copernicus data and information for interested partners from Chile and Colombia but also open the development of an “EU-CELAC Knowledge Area”. Your participation and engagement are crucial in improving cooperation in research and innovation, boosting the usage of new technologies, and underpinning sustainable socio-economic development. Together, we can bridge the digital divide and enhance competitiveness while ensuring social inclusion remains a cross-cutting issue, all while accepting the Copernicus full, free, and open data policy.

Stay tuned for more details as we develop the COMUNIDAD platform.