International Opportunities Service (IOS)
The International Opportunities Service (IOS), an Earth Sciences Sector (ESS) program for international capacity building, is coordinated through International Division. The IOS promotes sustainable development and capacity building around the world through Canadian expertise and technology in the geosciences and geomatics.
The IOS goal is specifically to provide seed funding for pilot or demonstration projects aimed at promoting Canadian technologies and know-how to key markets, and to build the capacity of developing countries so as to facilitate the adoption of Canadian standards, technologies and services. To meet these objectives, the IOS:
- conducts sustainable development projects that provide the Canadian Earth Sciences community with business opportunities;
- supports capacity building in developing countries;
- provides Canadian public and private partners with the help they need to develop specific projects for testing geomatics and geosciences products and technologies internationally; and
- promotes new technologies developed by ESS.
On-going IOS projects undertaken:
Brazil National Geospatial Framework
Canada – India Landslide Project
China Earth Observation Capacity Building Centre
Mitigation of Arsenic Risk from Groundwater in West Bengal State, India
NRCan – China Hydrocarbon Geosciences Collaboration Project
Senegal National Geomatics Plan
Completed IOS projects:
Canada – China Landslide Project
Canadian Support Project for GEONAT in Tunisia
Mozambique National Geospatial Information Project
Multinational Andean Project: Geoscience for Andean Communities