AFRICANEEDSPACE

Team organizer

Young and pasionate African working toghether to change the paradigm !

Charles-Aimé NZEUSSI

Organizer

NZEUSSI MBOUENDEU Charles-Aimé, 27 years old, is the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) National Point of Contact in Cameroon. He is also a member of the Space Technologies for Earth Applications working group. Charles-aimé co-authored the paper, entitled “Current and Near-Future State of Space Technology for Disaster Situations”, which was presented during the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Washington, DC. In 2019-2020, he was NASA’s Scientist for a Day essay contest National coordinators, also organizer of Space Mission Design training (with Open Cosmos & partners) and Speaker during the first Understanding Risk conference in Cameroon on the theme of Space in Africa and related application in Risk management. He has a strong conviction that we all have our partition to play for the development of the African continent and chooses to invest in the promotion of space issues and innovation via space technologies in Africa.

Monique LAGOUTE MELY

Organizer

Monique Lagoute Mely is specialized in forest management sciences and geomatics, with several experiences in the implementation of traceability systems, monitoring and evaluation and training within companies and projects of forest management and development in Cameroon. Monique Lagoute, founder and Managing Director of Eureka Géo, has developed and structured the business repository for training, research and innovation around geospatial sciences and technologies in order to develop expertise and the local economy through the creation of value-added services for Africans and by Africans. It participates in the federation of the national ecosystem of digital and space actors through the organization of the conference: Les Journées de la Géomatique; the organization of the ActinSpace competition initiated by ESA, CNES; organization of the AFRINEEDSPACE workshop (of which it is an initiator). Monique is a member of OpenStreetMap Cameroon and coordinator of the YouthMappers network, two associations that popularize participatory mapping.

Prudence NOUTCHA

Moderator

Social EntrepreneurCoach,Network Marketer Social Activist /founder-Co-Founder Researcher /Trainer/Author

Jesse Happy NDONGO

Moderator

Jesse Happy Ndongo is a man of several careers, but for the sake of our event is best we know him as an Author and Facilitator. He holds a wide experience with over 100 seminars, Conferences and Team buildings managed over the past years in the fields of personal, professional and Team development. Listed amongst the most promising entrepreneurs in 2019 by Forbes Africa, and recognized by the American Congress in 2017, he who is also know as « Mr. Africa » is the author of 2 books. The first published in 2015 entitled « Charity » and an audio book on Public Speaking published in 2017. His next book entitled « COROLEARNER : 19 Life lessons learned from the Pandemic of the year » stands to suggest proactive measures we should all apply inorder to get out of any crisis even stronger.

Yves Emmanuel NIKOYO EMOUGOU

Main Reporter

Yves Emmanuel NIKOYO EMOUGOU is a Cameroonian of 26 years old. He holds a Master in Environmental assessment and territory planning, and presently follows a training of geomatics assistant project at EURÊKA GEO, a centre dealing with spatial technology. he is interested on technology dealing with earth observation especially natural ressources monitoring, strategy to conserve, involve local community in the management of their ressources. For that last point he wrote an article available on this link savoirs.cames.online/jspui/handle/20.500.12177/1244. He is also working on spatial data analysis of Cameroon land cover to power OpenStreetMap, a participative cartography project.

Tonye ASSONG

Commitee manager

ASSONG TONYE is a young Surveyor Engineer and currently an intern at space4gis, a co-working space created by SOGEFI, EURÊKA GEO, OpenStreetMap Cameroon. She is the technical assistant and focal point of the YouthMappers Cameroon network in universities and high schools by raising awareness on participatory mapping. In addition to her tasks, ASSONG Tonye is involved in the organization of space4gis events. she is passionate about space-related topics.

Ragil NDONGMO

Reporter

Ragil NDONGMO, 24, is a PhD student in Cosmology-Astrophysics at the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon. Passionate about this field, he regularly organizes public conferences to present the beauty of space sciences, in particular cosmology, this field where scientists have proven themselves, like Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawkin, George Lemaitre and many others. He oriented his PhD thesis on the thermodynamic study of rotating black holes, like the one at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.He follows very closely the activities of SGAC (for spaces techonologies) in Cameroon, which for him represents the other side of the same coin with his field, spaces sciences. His dream is to have a high level research center in Cosmology-Astrophysics in his country, to be able to unravel the mysteries of the cosmos.In addition, he presents a scientific program called "Science-Higtech", broadcast on Youtube and facebook, whose aim to encourage scientific research and technological innovation in Africa.

Lily Asongfac

Reporter

Asongfac Lily Rospeen is a 4th/final year Electrical and Electronic engineering student specializing in Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Buea, Cameroon. Aspiring to become a satellite engineer, she has great passion for spatial technology and was the winner of SGAC_CAMEROON's Space237 Essay competition.

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