<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello David (and the list) <br><br></div>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.<br>
<br></div><div>K</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 8:32 PM, David Walwyn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:David.Walwyn@up.ac.za" target="_blank">David.Walwyn@up.ac.za</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Keith<br>
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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.<br>
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I have one suggestion on the letter:<br>
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change "for formal affiliation by units" to "for the formal affiliation of units, departments or schools"<br>
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Regards<br>
David<br>
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>>> Keith Breckenridge 02/15/14 2:57 PM >>><br>
Dear Colleagues,<br>
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Below is a draft of a template letter. Please make suggestions for<br>
revision as you see fit. The template can obviously be changed to suit any<br>
specific institution or university. My suggestion is that we simply list<br>
universities as affiliate members of the network -- so, if Edinburgh can<br>
sign up STS, Development Studies, and African Studies, it will still be<br>
listed as a single university, although somewhere on the web site we need<br>
to list each unit, and its members (and their academic biographies).<br>
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- - - -<br>
The STS Africa network (<a href="http://www.sts-africa.org/" target="_blank">http://www.sts-africa.org/</a>) is an association of<br>
scholars and institutions committed to the development of the field of<br>
Science and Technology Studies on the African continent; the network<br>
particularly works for the development of research and teaching capacity in<br>
the inter-disciplinary field of STS at African institutions. At the recent<br>
meetings of the network in Johannesburg, members of STS Africa resolved to<br>
encourage this project of institutionalization by calling for formal<br>
affiliation by units based at universities on the African continent, and by<br>
those based at universities around the world with a strong interest in<br>
African research and research development. By means of this letter the<br>
___ based at ___ indicates its formal support and membership of the<br>
STS-Africa network, and its willingness to participate in grant-writing and<br>
other research administrative activities that will strengthen the field of<br>
Science and Technology Studies on the African continent. Our full Address<br>
is ____ and the names and contact details of two members of the unit are<br>
provided below:<br>
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k<br>
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Keith Breckenridge *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and<br>
Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits,<br>
Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: <a href="tel:%2B27117174272" value="+27117174272">+27117174272</a> | Fax: <a href="tel:0867654213" value="+27867654213">0867654213</a> |<br>
Web: <a href="http://wiser.wits.ac.za" target="_blank">wiser.wits.ac.za</a><br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left">Keith Breckenridge <b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">W I S E R</span></b><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"> - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 </span>| <span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Web</span>: <font><a href="http://wiser.wits.ac.za" target="_blank">wiser.wits.ac.za</a></font></div>
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