Category Archives: Sub-Saharan Africa

Astronomy workshop – update

The HBSST workshop has been rescheduled as follows at the two locations below: Date: Thursday 1st- Saturday 3rd June 2017 Time: 9:00am daily Venue: Electronics Lab. Department of Physics, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port  Harcourt.   Date: Monday 5th – Wednesday 7th June 2017 Time: 9:00am daily Venue: Centre for Basic Space […]

Article for Universe Awareness

Observatory Establishes Astronomy Library Corner in South Africa From 18 to 26 March this year, celebrations commenced for the South African National Library week with the theme ‘My library, your library’. South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) librarians set out to establish an astronomy corner at the Sutherland Library to advance astronomy literacy, in conjunction with […]

Crowdfunding campaign

Crowd-funding campaign to raise funds for West African Astronomy School 2017 WAISSYA 2017 will be held in Accra, Ghana, in August 2017, hosted by the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute — your help supports more students to attend! WAISSYA 2017 is supported by grants from the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development, the Square Kilometer Array, the Abdus-Salam […]

Updated project plan

The project has a new PI and updated plan, Ms Zuthobeke Mvakade Email address: zm@saao.ac.za South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) library wants to promote astronomy awareness in our communities. Astronomy is part of primary school curriculum and the statistic has shown that communities in previously disadvantaged areas are always left behind with less growth especially […]

Workshop Announcement

We are pleased to announce that the registration for the Big Data in Astronomy: A Potential Tool For Social Innovation (BArIStA)​ workshop running from the​ 7 – 11 August 2017 (Flic en Flac, Mauritius) is now open. This international Joint Exchange Development Initiative (JEDI) workshop is partially funded by the task force on Astronomy for Universities and […]