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The Presidency’s Deputy Head: Policy Coordination and Advisory Services Alan Hirsch responded to a series of questions posed to him by Engineering News Editor Terence Creamer about the so-called ‘Framework for South Africa’s Response to the International Economic Crisis’ released late last week.

The ‘Framework’ document, which was drafted by government, business, labour and community representative, under the aegis of The Presidency and the National Economic Development and Labour Council, is effectively South Africa’s first attempt at articulating a possible stimulus package to deal with the domestic economic consequences of the prevailing downturn in the global economy.

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NACI recently hosted a lunch seminar which was addressed by Andrew Jamison, Professor of Technology and Society at Aalborg University in Denmark His topic was Changing Contexts of Knowledge Production and was based on an analytical framework published in a recent book,Hubris and Hybrids – A Cultural History of Technology and Science authored by him and Mikael HÃ¥rd. The seminar was attended by NACI, DST and ASSAf staff.More

27 February 2009, 09:00Â 16:00, CSIR conference centre

The NACI workshop, Broad-based innovations to address socio-economic challenges faced by South Africa was hailed as very timely by the delegates. The key objective of the workshop was to generate strategies for broad-based innovations relevant to socio-economic development.

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