SA leads regional march towards nano-enabled society

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Nanotechnology According to South African Minister of Science & Technology Dr Mosibudi Mangena, nanotechnology is one of the key features of a new science, technology and innovation strategy being developed for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) following a meeting of the region’s science and technology ministers in December. This follows the adoption of the Protocol on Science, Technology and Innovation in August last year. Speaking at the NanoAfrica 2009 conference in Pretoria in February, Dr Mangena said as the new Chair of SADC, South Africa would ensure that a platform is created for regional dialogue in the area of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is the act, science and engineering for manipulating objects at the nanoscale (one nanometre is about one million times smaller than a millimetre). “The nano-disciplines have emerged from small beginnings to become one of the most enterprising and promising disciplines in the world of science.

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