Development through Radio Astronomy Global Network

我们建议通过射电天文学在我们已经通过牛顿基金在非洲、拉丁美洲和东南亚建立的三个独立项目之间建立伙伴关系。这一合作将形成一个调动射电天文学促进经济发展的全球专门知识网络。该网络将建立和发展“南南”联系，以帮助分享在如何将射电天文学的高科技技能转化为当地创造就业机会和创业精神方面的经验和教训。该项目的活动以四个国际讲习班为中心，每个讲习班侧重于通过射电天文学研究实现经济发展的一个关键方面。其中包括将旧的电信天线转换为射电望远镜，利用共同工作的射电望远镜网络形成区域合作，利用射电天文学的大数据方面转化为其他工业和商业领域，以及将射电天文学的高技术技能转移到空间科学、大地测量、卫星通信和电信以及创业等相关领域。我们将鼓励三大洲其他中低收入国家加入既定活动，并围绕这一主题建立强有力的区域合作。这将有助于巩固英国在射电天文学及其应用领域的世界领先地位。

We propose to build partnerships between the three separate projects in development through radio astronomy that we have already established via the Newton Fund in Africa, Latin America and South East Asia. This collaboration will form a global network of expertise in the mobilization of radio astronomy for economic development. The network will establish and build 'south-south' connections that will help the sharing of experiences and lessons learned in how to translate the high tech skills of radio astronomy into local job creation and entrepreneurship. The activities in this project centre on four international workshops that each focus on a key aspect of economic development through radio astronomy research. These include the conversion of old telecommunications dishes into radio telescopes, the formation of regional collaborations using networks of radio telescopes working together, utilizing the big data aspects of radio astronomy for translation into other areas of industry and commerce, and the transfer of the high tech skills in radio astronomy into the related areas of space science, geodesy, satellite communications and telecommunications and entrepreneurship. We will encourage other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the three continental regions to join the established activities and build strong regional collaborations around this theme. This will help cement the UK's position as a world leader in radio astronomy and its applications.