...... their contribution to the world collective knowledge, which could lead to collective action at the global level.
The wide range of space applications affects many aspects of daily life throughout the world. Space application allow many facets of the global tasks facing the world to improve the human condition to be successfully accomplished in such general areas as achieving a sustainable world, protecting the environment, enabling all people to benefit from global communications, better managing and ameliorating the effects of natural disaster and enhancing capacity building in all parts of the world, mostly under privileged region, and providing for economic development not otherwise possible.
Actions using space applications could support global efforts to ensure that no individual and no nation is denied the opportunity to benefit from social and economic development. Those actions could also contribute to poverty eradication and protection of the vulnerable in all parts of the world. The coordination of space-based services could help to control diseases to manage natural disaster mitigation and to ensure that all affected population are given every feasible assistance and protection. Space applications, particularly through earth observation, can provide effective tools for global governance of the environment by providing means of verification for compliance with international agreement relating to environmental protection.
Satellite communications as significant potential to bridge the digital divide by contributing to the development and strengthening of the information and communication infrastructure as an essential foundation for a knowledge-based society. Satellite products have also become an integral part of the humanitarian response to international crisis.
In this context, one of the most significant goal is to strengthen space activity in the United Nations system, by reaffirming the role of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and its subsidiary bodies and Secretariat; by developing space law and by promoting the peaceful uses of outer space with all states, international organisations and civil society.
Prof.
Sergio
Marchisio
Full Professor of International Law; Chairman of the Legal Subcommittee of UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space; Director of the Institute for International Legal Studies of the National Research Council
University of Rome - La Sapienza
http://www.isgi.cnr.it
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