Everyone answers one path . If more than one fits, choose the one closest to your daily work or life. After you finish your path, everyone continues to Section C and Section D together.
Path 1 Learning & Knowledge Students, teachers, lecturers, researchers, scientists How people learn, train, and build careers in science, from secondary school through postgraduate research and professional practice. Path 2 Health & Wellbeing Clinicians, community health workers, traditional practitioners, patients, carers, advocates The relationship between science and health, including access to care, public trust, One Health, and traditional medicine. Path 3 Food, Environment & Livelihood Farmers, fishers, pastoralists, food producers, nutritionists, agronomists, environmental professionals Science in relation to food, farming, nutrition, environment, and the livelihoods that depend on them. Path 4 Innovation & Enterprise Entrepreneurs, innovators, engineers, manufacturers, investors, financiers Turning African science into products, services, and solutions that reach people at scale. Path 5 Culture, Media & Public Life Journalists, editors, artists, musicians, filmmakers, creators, athletes, the public How science is understood, talked about, and experienced in public life through media, sport, art, and culture. Path 6 Governance & Accountability Policymakers, government officials, regulators, civil society, development partners How decisions are made, and how science informs, or fails to inform, governance and public accountability.
S2 What part of science education do you know best?e.g. secondary school, university, TVET, postgraduate research, community/adult learning, or STEM outreach.
L1 Think of someone you know who has the ability and interest to pursue science but has not been able to. What is the single biggest thing that stopped them?A barrier you have seen with your own eyes is more useful than a general statement.
L2 What subjects, skills, or types of knowledge are most urgently missing from how science is taught or practiced in your context?
L3 How connected is the science training in your institution or community to the actual challenges people face nearby?L4 What is the one thing that, if changed in the next three years, would most improve how science talent is developed or retained in your country or region?
L5 Name one institution that should lead on improving science education and talent in your context, and say why.
S2 If your interest is a specific health area, name it.e.g. HIV, TB, malaria, NCDs, mental health, rare/neglected diseases, maternal & child health, One Health, traditional medicine.
H1 When you or someone in your community gets seriously ill, what is the biggest gap between the care needed and the care actually available? What role does science, or the lack of it, play in that gap?Answer from your own life or from what you have seen, not from general statistics.
H2 In the health area you named, what is the most important problem that science has an answer to, but that answer is not reaching the people who need it? What is getting in the way?
H3 How much do people in your community trust scientific or biomedical advice on health?H4 How should traditional and community medicine relate to formal scientific health systems, and what would that relationship look like in practice by 2028?
H5 Name one specific, realistic change in health research, policy, or practice you would want to point to in 2028 as evidence that this Action Agenda made a difference.Better healthcare is not a change. A community health worker in every village who can diagnose malaria is a change.
S2 What is your focus?e.g. crop farming, livestock/pastoralism, fisheries, nutrition, climate & environment, indigenous food systems, One Health.
F1 What is the most significant food, environmental, or livelihood challenge you or your community faces that better science or technology could address? What is preventing that from happening?
F2 How much of the agricultural, nutritional, or environmental science produced in Africa is actually useful to farmers and food producers in your area?F3 Are there traditional or indigenous farming, food, or environmental practices in your community that science has ignored or dismissed? What are they, and what would engaging them properly look like?
F4 What specific research, technology, or policy would most improve food security, nutrition, or environmental resilience in your area by 2028? Who should be responsible for delivering it?
S2 What sector do you work in?e.g. diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, digital health, agritech, biotech, or other manufacturing.
I1 What is the most significant barrier you face in taking a science-based idea, product, or service from concept to scale in Africa? Say whether it is regulatory, financial, infrastructural, or market-related, and what it has cost you.
I2 Is there a health, food, or technology product Africa needs but currently imports that could realistically be manufactured here within three years, given the right conditions? What are those conditions?
I3 How well does African intellectual property law and practice currently protect innovators who develop solutions for African challenges?I4 What single financing instrument would most effectively unlock African-led innovation and manufacturing by 2028? Who should set it up and hold it?
S2 What is your platform or medium?e.g. print, broadcast radio or TV, film, music, social/digital media, sport, or live performance.
C1 In your professional life, how often does science come up as a subject, a tool, or a source of stories? What makes it appear or disappear from the work you do?
C2 What makes a science story land with a general African audience? What makes one fail? Give an example of each if you can.
C3 Health misinformation travels through the same channels as science communication. In your experience, who is winning that battle in your audience and why?
C4 What would it take for science to become a regular, natural part of African entertainment, sport, or popular culture — not as education but as something that belongs there? Name a specific, realistic step.
C5 By 2028, what visible change in how science is covered, discussed, or represented in African media, entertainment, or public life would tell you this Action Agenda made a real difference?
S2 At what level do you work?e.g. national government, county/local government, a regional or continental body, a regulatory agency, civil society, or a funder.
G1 How consistently are scientific evidence and research findings used in the policy decisions you make, observe, or monitor?G2 What is the most important regulatory or governance change needed to make Africa's science and health systems more responsive, accountable, and domestically owned? What is currently blocking that change?
G4 What specific, binding, verifiable commitment would you want signed at the Culture of Science Conference by the institution you represent or work closely with? What would make you confident it would actually be kept?
