Established on 5 April, 2017, the Digital Silk Road Alliance (DSRA) is a platform for the scientific exchange and the reinforcement of the current scientific capabilities (capacity building) in the countries along the Silk Road, in the fields of digital earth, earth observation technology and geospatial data and information.

The activities foreseen will include developing a cooperation scientific network and think tank focusing on themes relevant to Digital Earth, organizing scientific international conferences, fostering international projects to search for funding, promoting open data and technology transfer, and strengthening the local scientific capacity as much as possible. All these activities will be focus on themes relevant to Digital Earth in the selected geographical regions.