{"id":382,"date":"2025-10-22T06:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evi-pol.hsrc.ac.za\/?p=382"},"modified":"2025-10-29T06:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:50:34","slug":"ctas-catalysts-of-africas-sti-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evi-pol.hsrc.ac.za\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"CTAs: catalysts of Africa\u2019s STI transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SGCI News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>An interview with Tom Ogada, <\/em><em>executive <\/em><em>director, African Centre for Technology Studies (<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/acts-net.org\/\">ACTS<\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the Science Granting Councils Initiative\u2019s (SGCI) 10th anniversary reflections, we spoke with Prof Tom Ogada about the critical role played by the Collaborative Technical Agencies (CTAs) in strengthening Africa\u2019s science, technology, and innovation (STI) systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Impact <\/strong><strong>story of CTAs in Africa\u2019s STI <\/strong><strong>transformation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CTAs are catalysts of Africa\u2019s STI transformation\u2014building stronger systems, smarter policies, and inclusive innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many years, African science systems faced some common challenges. Research and innovation were happening, but often in silos, with fragmented knowledge and systems, limited and uneven capacity, skewed gender participation and contribution, a disconnect between policies and practice, and a struggle to align funding, skills, and innovation ecosystems with national development priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sgciafrica.org\/ctas-catalysts-of-africas-sti-transformation\/\">Read the full interview on the SGCI Africa website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Science Granting Councils Initiative\u2019s (SGCI) 10th anniversary reflections, we spoke with Prof Tom Ogada about the critical role played by the Collaborative Technical Agencies (CTAs) in strengthening Africa\u2019s science, technology, and innovation (STI) systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evi-pol.hsrc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evi-pol.hsrc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evi-pol.hsrc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evi-pol.hsrc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evi-pol.hsrc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evi-pol.hsrc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/evi-pol.hsrc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evi-pol.hsrc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evi-pol.hsrc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evi-pol.hsrc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evi-pol.hsrc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}