aga act & the protection of astronomy geographic advantage areas
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AGA Act & the protection of Astronomy Geographic Advantage Areas
May 2011
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Presentation outline
• Introduction• Purpose of the Act• AGA Act milestones• Future declarations and regulations
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Introduction
• Astronomy Geographic Advantage Bill assented into an Act in 2008 by the President
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Purpose of the Act
• Preservation of geographic advantage that attracts and protect investment in astronomy
• Supporting advancement and development of astronomy e.g. human capacity building and research development
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AGA Act milestones
1. Declaration of Northern Cape Province excluding Sol Plaatjie Municipality as astronomy advantage area in terms of section 5 of the AGA Act
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2. Declaration of the Northern Cape optical and radio telescope sites as core astronomy advantage areas in terms of section 7 of the Act
AGA Act milestones
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3. Declaration of Southern Africa Large Telescope (SALT), MeerKAT, and SKA as protectable astronomy and related scientific endeavours in terms of section 28 of the Act;
AGA Act milestones
← SALT
KAT-7 →
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4. Declaration of the Department of Science and Technology as the astronomy
management authority of the core astronomy advantage areas
AGA Act milestones
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Future declarations and regulations
Central and coordinated astronomy advantage areas declarations will be completed during 2011/ 2012
Regulations for central and coordinated astronomy advantage areas are planned for completion during 2012/ 13
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Cabinet Task Team
• Cabinet has set up a interdepartmental task team to probe the impact of fracturing.
• The team is led by the DG’s of DMR and DST
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THANK YOU
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