Conveners
Discussion: Ministers Forum and Strategic Task Force
- Lawrence Norris (African Physical Society )
- Nkem Khumbah (AAS)
Description
Open Forum
This is research infrastructure that is highly competitive in its own right but which is also seen as an important training and feeder infrastructure to an AdLS. Current examples are the OpenLabs started in in several African countries together with the IUCr, XTechLab in Benin and the Sir Aaron Klugg Bioscience Facility in Capetown.
Here several African countries jointly acquire formal membership of an international AdLS. They leverage a threshold of participation that allows African Government involvement in the Council of the Facility, so that there is increased African Access of Researchers, Technologists, Industries and also Governments.
This is an African designed and operated beamline that can address selected African Research Imperatives. It is both an opportunity for increased Science and then something new, Engineering and Technical training and Technology Transfer.
Ministerial representatives of several African Countries discuss science on the continent and the role of the Advanced Light Source.
Combined with
Strategic Task Force discussion
All of these issues have a Pan-African or regional African character.
