Academy of Science South Africa 2005/6 Annual Report

Programme 3ASSAfthe Parliamentary Portfolio Committees corresponding to all the relevant departments as stated above.Copies of the Proceedings Report will be sent to the Chief Executive Officers and Chairpersonsof Higher Education South Africa (HESA), the Council on Higher Education (CHE), the NationalAdvisory Council on Innovation (NACI) and the National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF).Each of the 261 members of the Academy will receive a copy of the Proceedings Report. About threecopies will be sent to each of the sister academies in Africa (Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, Madagascar,Ghana, Cameroon, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Egypt, AAS) and to academy-like bodiesin other African countries such as Namibia, Botswana and others. Copies of the Proceedings Reportwill be also sent to TWAS, the ICSU main and Africa office, the NEPAD S&T Secretariat, the IAP, andother international bodies linked to ASSAf. International dissemination included the US NationalAcademies and selected individuals in the USNA-ASSAf partnership; the Royal Society; the RussianAcademy of Sciences, the national science academies of India, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, France andselected others. Copies of the Proceedings Report will be sent to each of the “deposit libraries”(State National Library branches, Parliamentary Library, Constitutional Court, and other).Sets of copies of the Proceedings Report (about 25) will be sent to the Vice-Chancellors or equivalentsof each of the 21 South African universities, technikons or universities of technology, with the requestto be distributed among Deputy Vice-Chancellors or Vice-Rectors, Deans and Librarians. Sets of copies(about 15) will be sent to the Presidents or Chief Executive Officers of each of the 11 South Africanscience councils or equivalents, with the request that they be appropriately distributed within theirorganisations. Where the need arises, extra copies of the Proceedings Report will be printed.Training of ASSAf staff for the planned Academy development programme througha visit to the US National Academies by two ASSAf Project staff members – October 2005One of the key items in the Year One Workplan was a visit by two members of the ASSAf projects staffto the US National Academies, mainly to attend a Forum meeting but also to meet and network withOn the SymposiumMr Mosibudi Mangena, Minister of Science andTechnology and Prof Robin Crewe, President ofASSAfAnnual Report 2005/0649