Academy of Science South Africa 2005/6 Annual Report

Programme 2ASSAfand to discuss its recommendations and their implications. Copies of the report were also sent toeach of the Ministers and Directors-General of: Agriculture, Health, Communications, EnvironmentalAffairs and Tourism, National Treasury, Trade and Industry, and to each of the Parliamentary PortfolioCommittees corresponding to all relevant departments as stated above.Copies of the report were sent to the Chief Executive Officers and Chairpersons of Higher EducationSouth Africa (HESA), the Council on Higher Education (CHE), the National Advisory Council onInnovation (NACI), the National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF), in each case with an openoffer to present the Report to the Executive and/or the next Annual General or plenary meeting.Each of the 261 members of the Academy received a copy of the report. About three copies were sentto each of the sister academies in Africa (Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, Madagascar, Ghana, Cameroon,Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Egypt, African Academy of Sciences-AAS) and to academy-likebodies in other African countries such as Namibia, Botswana and others. Copies of the report werealso sent to TWAS, the ICSU main and Africa office, the NEPAD S&T Secretariat, the IAP, and otherinternational bodies linked to ASSAf. International dissemination included the US National Academiesand selected individuals in the USNA-ASSAf partnership, the Royal Society, the Russian Academy ofSciences, the national science academies of India, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, France and selected others.Each of the 213 editors and publishers of the South African published journals who took part in theASSAf Survey described in Chapter 4 of the report also received a report. Copies were sent to each ofthe “deposit libraries” (State National Library branches, Parliamentary Library, Constitutional Court,and others).Sets of copies of the report (about 25) were sent to the Vice-Chancellors or equivalents of each of the 21South African universities, technikons or universities of technology, with the request to distribute themamong Deputy Vice-Chancellors or Vice-Rectors, Deans and librarian(s). Sets of copies (about 15) weresent to the Presidents or Chief Executive Officers of each of the eleven South African Science Councils orequivalents, with the request that they be appropriately distributed within their organisations.Annual Report 2005/0623