<div dir="ltr">I am interested in the outreach programme. i was in the previous national workshop in June and would like to take science and technology further. This would also ensure our countries economic growth and i am willing to do whatever it take to put young South Africans on the map. Please contact me on 0735706863 Kholofelo Kgaphola a student at the University of Johannesburg.<br>
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2. From the IAU regarding IYA2009 (Maciej Soltynski)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:12:49 +0200<br>From: Kevin Govender <<a href="mailto:kg@saao.ac.za">kg@saao.ac.za</a>><br>
Subject: [AstroNet] task team/working group for IYA in Africa<br>To: astronet <<a href="mailto:astronet@mail.saasta.ac.za">astronet@mail.saasta.ac.za</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:48C08791.6010006@saao.ac.za">48C08791.6010006@saao.ac.za</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>Hi all<br>I would like to call on volunteers who are willing to give time to a<br>task team/working group for IYA in Africa.<br><br>There has always been a core of energetic individuals from all over<br>
Africa (and beyond) contributing to such things as the plan for<br>Astronomy Outreach in Africa and the discussions surrounding IYA in<br>different African countries. For that the continent remains grateful to<br>them. However, the growing amount of work and opportunities that they<br>
have generated brings about a need to establish a bigger team of<br>collaborators that could consult regularly outside of this email list<br>and run with things as and when necessary.<br><br>Africa needs these energetic individuals as well as other keen parties<br>
on this team. The team would lead the actual work before communicating<br>with the whole community for input and information dissemination. They<br>would work closely with each other via email, skype, telephone<br>conferences or physical meetings to make sure that Africa moves forward<br>
and benefits maximally from IYA2009.<br><br>Please contact me if you would like to join this team and we can start<br>talking about specific tasks that the continent needs done.<br>Regards<br>Kevin<br><br><br>------------------------------<br>
<br>Message: 2<br>Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:19:39 +0200<br>From: "Maciej Soltynski" <<a href="mailto:Maciej@telkomsa.net">Maciej@telkomsa.net</a>><br>Subject: [AstroNet] From the IAU regarding IYA2009<br>To: <<a href="mailto:astronet@mail.saasta.ac.za">astronet@mail.saasta.ac.za</a>><br>
Message-ID: <456A62DED1074EDA93B8B618E0D72268@mgsp428g><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>IYA2009. RELEASE OF NEW WEB SITE<br><br>As of today, 123 National Nodes and 28 organisations have<br>
formed committees to prepare activities for the International<br>Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). These committees are<br>collaborations between professional and amateur astronomers,<br>societies, universities, research institutes, educators,<br>
science centres and science communicators.<br><br>The IYA2009 is also supported by 11 Global Cornerstone<br>projects, 6 Special Projects and 11 IYA2009 Task Groups.<br>These are global programmes of activities centred on a<br>
specific theme and represent the means to achieve the<br>IYA2009's main goals; whether it is the support and promotion<br>of women in astronomy, the preservation of dark-sky sites<br>around the world or educating and explaining the workings of<br>
the Universe to millions, the global projects are the key<br>facets of the success of the IYA2009.<br><br>The global coordination of IYA2009 is supported financially<br>by the Organisational Associates and Global Sponsors. We are<br>
proud to announce that the companies Thales Alenia Space and<br>Celestron are the first IYA2009 Global Sponsors, and that<br>seed funding of parts of the Cornerstones has started.<br><br>The IYA2009 is constantly growing: both in the number of<br>
people and organisations involved, as well as in the number<br>and quality of resources it makes available to its partners.<br>For more information on the IYA2009 and its worldwide<br>activities, please see the latest version of the IYA2009<br>
brochure, which will be available on the IYA2009 web page<br><<a href="http://www.astronomy2009.org/resources-mainmenu-47.html" target="_blank">www.astronomy2009.org/resources-mainmenu-47.html</a>> on<br>Tuesday, 9 September<br>
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