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| swjg5_v1 | Space applications in Sub-Saharan Africa have impact on more than a dozen Sustainable Development Goals | This paper presents two European Space Agency’s case studies analysing projects which had turned global challenges into business opportunities – with statistically significant Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs] (UN,2015) effects. Two case studies implemented in Sub-Saharan Africa are analysed in depth with respect to their impact towards the SDGs indicators. The case studies refer to the ESA Business Applications’ projects: Sway4Edu and SatFinAfrica. Sway4Edu offers a combined operational and human approach from the start to improve learning processes, boosting the interest of teachers and children developing IT skills. It supports e-learning services and internet access in rural schools of developing countries via a satellite ICT (Information and Communication Technology) solution, with the necessary tools and methodology to integrate it into daily life (ESA Business Applications, 2014). SatFinAfrica provides reliable and secure financial services in remote/underserved areas in African emerging countries. It enables secure and reliable financial applications such as money transfers, via a satellite-based telecommunication platform (ESA Business Applications, 2014). This paper tries to quantitatively measure impact of space projects on SDGs using Difference in Difference (DiD) methodology and provides results of statistically significant effect on SDG indicators related to two ESA projects. Significant impacts of Sway4Edu project on SDG Indicator 4.a.1: Proportion of schools with access to the Internet for pedagogical purposes was observed, as well as SatFinAfrica on SDG Indicator 17.3.2: Volume of remittances (in United States dollars) as a proportion of total GDP are presented in the paper. | 2024-11-14T15:44:45.643104 | 2024-11-24T18:04:27.228129 | 2024-11-14T15:46:55.955108 | 2023-10-09T23:00:00 | lissa | 1 | pending | 1 | 1 | https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/swjg5 | MIT License | Education; SDGs; Space Applications | ["Education", "SDGs", "Space Applications"] | Elia Montanari | [{"id": "d8uex", "name": "Elia Montanari", "index": 0, "orcid": "0000-0002-9975-4958", "bibliographic": true}] | Elia Montanari | Social and Behavioral Sciences; Library and Information Science; Information Literacy | [{"id": "59bac9db54be81031d5cc79e", "text": "Social and Behavioral Sciences"}, {"id": "59bac9db54be81031d5cc79f", "text": "Library and Information Science"}, {"id": "59bac9db54be81031d5cc7a5", "text": "Information Literacy"}] | https://osf.io/download/67361b040eed8a4e0f4d745b | 0 | not_applicable | not_applicable | [] | 2025-04-09T21:06:14.045285 |