dc.contributor.author | Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-25T06:39:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-07-25T06:39:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), (2017). 20 Years of Excellence 1996 - 2016. [Online] Available at: DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2016/0010 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-9947076-4-2 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2016/0010 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11911/75 | |
dc.description | Cite: Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), (2017). 20 Years of Excellence 1996 - 2016. [Online] Available at: DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2016/0010 | en_ZA |
dc.description.abstract | 20 Years of Excellence 1996 – 2016 recounts the 20 years of ASSAf’s existence since the early 1990s when trailblazers in academia gave of their time and energy to realise a dream of establishing a fully representative, national academy of science to guide the democratic South Africa into a promising new era.
From drafting a constitution for the Academy; putting in place the mechanisms, statutes and machinery needed to run a working national academy of science, ASSAf’s remarkable journey testifies to perceptive vision to ensure a legacy of knowledge.
Since its inception, ASSAf has grown from a small, emergent organisation to a well-established academy. It has pursued its mandate of providing evidence-based science advice in support of policy development on issues of national significance to government and beyond.
The book describes the early beginnings to define and form a unique crucible, through to creating a unitary academy of sciences, encompassing all science disciplines. | en_ZA |
dc.description.sponsorship | Department of Science and Technology | en_ZA |
dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | Academy of Science of South Africa | en_ZA |
dc.subject | History | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Science academies | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Mandate | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Science for society | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Transformation | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Academy constitution | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Founder members | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Launch | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Governance | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Membership | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Elections | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Nelson Mandela | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Unified Academy of Science | en_ZA |
dc.subject | The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) | en_ZA |
dc.subject | United States National Academy of Science (US NAS) | en_ZA |
dc.subject | South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Scholarly Publishing | en_ZA |
dc.title | 20 Years of Excellence 1996 - 2016 | en_ZA |
dc.type | Book | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.17159/assaf.2016/0010 | |