ORGANIZATION
The structural organization consists of a steering committee that is advised by an InternationalAdvisoryCommittee (IAC), Group Conveners, and sub-group conveners. The steering committee (STC) is made of professional scientists that are still active in their fields and well-connected to the international community. Members of the STC are Africans (from Africa and the diaspora)—they are the founding members of this historic and inaugural African Strategy. The STC will manage and coordinate the activities, and work and liaise with the InternationalAdvisoryCommittee until the final report that will serve as the African Strategy.
The IAC will advise the Steering Committee. Members of the IAC are from the worldwide community. The role of the IAC is to offer advice, suggestions, and perspectives from their own strategies to inform the STC who will be responsible to guide the working groups toward a successful African Strategy.
The Group Conveners are experts in their domains, selected with particular attention to gender balance, geographical balance, and inclusion of non-African physicists. The group conveners are responsible to coordinate the activities within their groups, define relevant sub-groups in consultation with the STC, assist the subgroups, engage the other groups on common topics or issues, and work on the report of their group activity.
PHYSICS GROUPS
For fundamental and applied physics, we form working groups in these areas: Accelerators, Astrophysics & Cosmology, Computing & 4IR, Instrumentation & Detectors, Light Sources, Medical Physics, Nuclear Physics, and Particle Physics. Strategic capacity development, retention, and research in the areas will play an important in the development of Africa.
The Physics groups may be subdivided into subgroups as necessary.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
The Community Engagement group will aim to ensure broader participation of African communities in the development of this Strategy. This group will discuss and address issues of physics education, communication and outreach, capacity development and retention, engagement with government and policymakers, and improvement of intra-African collaborations in physics education and research.