Previous projects have included everything from workshops on designing and building less-polluting cookstoves to efforts to build and repair schools and roads toa two-year survey by scientists tostudy and map the Mekong.
The meeting, held at Rhodes University, was a follow-up toastudy undertaken last year by UNESCO tomap the media training landscape across the continent and to assess potential excellence according to three broad criteria areas.
The orbiter will carry instruments tostudy gamma ray and heat emissions from the planet and construct a global map of the planet's elemental composition.