Metascience and STI policy making in Africa: The African STI Leaders' Forum
Heide Hackmann
(University of Stellenbosch)
Short abstract
The presentation focuses on the development and establishment of an African STI Leaders’ Forum, which has been designed to serve as a potentially powerful platform for the dissemination and use of metascience knowledge(s) in strategic STI visioning and policymaking in Africa.
Long abstract
The presentation focuses on the development and establishment of an African STI Leaders’ Forum, which has been designed to serve as a potentially powerful platform for the dissemination and use of metascience knowledge(s) in strategic STI visioning and policymaking in Africa. The context for and complex dynamics of convening the leadership of Africa’s broader STI ecosystem illustrate the need for metascience scholarship and its potential impact on advancing African STI in ways that are responsive to the challenges and opportunities that African scientific communities and the institutions of which they are a part now confront.
Accepted Paper
Short abstract
Long abstract
The presentation focuses on the development and establishment of an African STI Leaders’ Forum, which has been designed to serve as a potentially powerful platform for the dissemination and use of metascience knowledge(s) in strategic STI visioning and policymaking in Africa. The context for and complex dynamics of convening the leadership of Africa’s broader STI ecosystem illustrate the need for metascience scholarship and its potential impact on advancing African STI in ways that are responsive to the challenges and opportunities that African scientific communities and the institutions of which they are a part now confront.
Mission metascience: pathways for optimising decision-making in STI policy
Session 1 Monday 30 June, 2025, -