[IRTalk] Winner of the 2017/2018 NSTF-South32 Data Award

[Ina Smith]

Dear Colleagues

Awards do not only acknowledge success; they also recognize many other qualities, such as ability, struggle, effort, internal motivation, but above all - excellence. On behalf of the African Open Science Platform, we wish to congratulate the winner of the 2017/2018 NSTF-South32 Data Award:

SASAS (South African Social Attitudes Survey)

Read media article at https://mg.co.za/article/2018-06-29-00-raising-the-public-voice


"SASAS is a series of surveys that has been conducted annually by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) since 2003. It is a nationally representative survey series that measures the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of South Africa's diverse population and shares these with policy and decision makers, as well as with the informed public. As such, SASAS shines a light on the public landscape and reveals the strands that make up the country's social fabric.

"In 2002, we decided to create a new survey that drew on international standards and practices relating to the measurement of public opinion," explains Benjamin Roberts, the co-ordinator of SASAS and a research specialist in the democracy, governance and service delivery research programme of the HSRC.

"We had wide-ranging consultations with local scholars and international experts to create SASAS - particularly with the designers of the British Social Attitudes Survey and the European Social Survey." "
About the Data Award

The NSTF under the guidance of a team of experts continues this category introduced last  year, which  is meant to encompass the work of an individual or a team (including for example researchers/scientists, data scientists, data stewards) to be rewarded for the generation, preservation and sharing of a valuable scientific resource in the form of a data set/ or data collection process for a data set, that is of national interest or for the public good, and that is openly available to be re-used and / or re-packaged in products that are of public good and interest, or that could be integrated into products that contribute to the development of South Africa.

Read more at http://www.nstf.org.za/awards/

Ina Smith
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