National Science Week 2022

The objectives of celebrating the NSW 2022 under the aforementioned theme are to:

(a) illustrate the role of science in tackling problems and challenges encountered in creating and sustaining a prosperous society;
(b) demystify the myths surrounding some of the innovations that are important to the advancement of society;
(c) display that South Africa is a home of some discoveries and innovations that influence the world; and
(d) raise science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) career awareness.

As the world is slowly returning to the new normal which allows some limited gatherings, it provides an opportunity for NSW 2022 to adopt a hybrid approach. A hybrid approach will combine elements of a blended physical, virtual and media content dissemination methods into a unified experience.

The NSW 2022 blended approach will maximise access and participation by the citizens because it caters for the needs of different sectors of the society. Having successfully handled all elements of hybrid approach at different times in the past; i.e. face-to-face and mainstream media since NSW inception until 2019, and all virtual /online with both mainstream and social media in 2021, it is now the time to put them together in 2022 as hybrid. 

The NSW 2022 will take a hybrid approach through information and communications technologies (ICT), media and face-to-face in strategic locations. In 2021 it was evident that South Africans are ready to exploit the convenience brought by digital platform to participate in different events. Just recently, the Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) has just concluded the hybrid census where a multiple-methods approach including telephone interviews, online and fieldworker visits were used for data collection. The advantage of this type of approach is to give a live and reliable data excellent for necessary interventions and on time at a specific location. Likewise, NSW 2022 will combine a number of methods customised to different sectors of society to maximise their participation. This will further ensure that the content is directed to the relevant groups of society.

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