[STS-Africa] STS Africa Affiliation

[Keith Breckenridge]

Hello David (and the list)

I think that we should keep open the prospect that affiliation will require
some funding -- at least for the South African and northern institutions.
How much that should be I'm not sure -- the CHCI consortium fee is about
$500.   For now letters of affiliation would be useful.

K


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 8:32 PM, David Walwyn <David.Walwyn at up.ac.za> wrote:

> Hi Keith
>
> Looks fine to me ... are you thinking of any membership fee?  If not, I
> think it will be relatively straightforward to get UP Graduate School of
> Technology Management to agree.
>
> I have one suggestion on the letter:
>
>  change "for formal affiliation by units" to "for the formal affiliation
> of units, departments or schools"
>
> Regards
> David
>
> >>> Keith Breckenridge  02/15/14 2:57 PM >>>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Below is a draft of a template letter.  Please make suggestions for
> revision as you see fit.  The template can obviously be changed to suit any
> specific institution or university.   My suggestion is that we simply list
> universities as affiliate members of the network -- so, if Edinburgh can
> sign up STS, Development Studies, and African Studies, it will still be
> listed as a single university, although somewhere on the web site we need
> to list each unit, and its members (and their academic biographies).
>
> - - - -
> The STS Africa network (http://www.sts-africa.org/) is an association of
> scholars and institutions committed to the development of the field of
> Science and Technology Studies on the African continent; the network
> particularly works for the development of research and teaching capacity in
> the inter-disciplinary field of STS at African institutions.  At the recent
> meetings of the network in Johannesburg, members of STS Africa resolved to
> encourage this project of institutionalization by calling for formal
> affiliation by units based at universities on the African continent, and by
> those based at universities around the world with a strong interest in
> African research and research development.   By means of this letter the
> ___ based at ___ indicates its formal support and membership of the
> STS-Africa network, and its willingness to participate in grant-writing and
> other research administrative activities that will strengthen the field of
> Science and Technology Studies on the African continent.  Our full Address
> is ____ and the names and contact details of two members of the unit are
> provided below:
>
>
> k
> --
> Keith Breckenridge  *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and
> Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits,
>  Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272  | Fax: 0867654213 |
> Web: wiser.wits.ac.za
>
>


-- 
Keith Breckenridge  *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and
Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits,
 Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272  | Fax: 0867654213 |
Web: wiser.wits.ac.za
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