A free network to promote interaction collaboration in science communication.

Inspired by similar organisations elsewhere in the world, the Southern African Science Communication Network (SASCON) is southern Africa’s entry into the global network of science communicators.

SASCON believes that the way southern Africans understand, communicate and use science and technology significantly affects their economic, social and environmental wellbeing. SASCON has the following priorities:

• To provide a forum for the exchange of information between all people interested in promoting science communication;
• To promote a public awareness of and interest in science among southern Africans;
• To increase the number of science communicators in southern Africa;
• To host "media skills for scientists" workshops to equip scientists, engineers and technologists with better communication skills; and,
• To promote the visibility of science and technology in the media.

SASCON is organised by SAASTA in the interest of science communication.