The Academy of Science of South Africa is facilitating the process to develop a Code of Conduct for Research under the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), having hosted two stakeholder events that were attended by scientists and researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. We have set up a Steering Committee to oversee the process of developing a Code of Conduct for research, as well as a Drafting Committee who are drafting the document.
Members of Committees
Events and Meetings
18 May 2021
ASSAf and NHREC POPIA Stakeholder Engagement with the RECS
Invitation and Programme
Link to Presentations
Link to Recording
3 May 2021
POPIA Public Consultation Forum
Invitation and Programme
Link to Presentations
Link to Recordings
10 December 2020
POPIA Session at SFSA
Invitation and Programme
Link to recording
21 October 2020
Virtual Forum Meeting
Invitation and Programme
Link to recording
Notifications and Documents
Draft POPIA Code of Conduct for Research for public comment – 22 September 2022
Announcement of progress on the POPIA Code of Conduct for Research and Call for Submissions of Issues to be addressed by the Code – Call closed on 12 February 2021 – 28 January 2021
Discussion Document https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2021/10933 – 03 May 2021
Commentary https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2021/10935 – 28 May 2021
Letter of thanks – 07 June 2021
ASSAf Update on the Code of Conduct for Research to Stakeholders – 13 December 2021
ASSAf Update on the Code of Conduct for Research to Stakeholder – 21 February 2022
Resources on Research Data Management
- https://www.uwe.ac.uk/study/library/research-support/manage-your-research-data/planning-your-project/create-a-data-management-plan#note4
- https://www.surrey.ac.uk/library/open-research/data-management-plans
- https://dmp.wur.nl/public_plans
- https://zenodo.org/record/7233370#.Y5oETexBxAc
- https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/gm/reporting/h2020-tpl-oa-data-mgt-plan-annotated_en.pdf
- https://library.educause.edu/resources/2020/4/higher-education-community-vendor-assessment-toolkit
- RDM Reading List
USAf Code of Conduct
Link to USAf Code of Conduct
Contact Details
Susan Veldsman, Director, Scholarly Publishing Unit, susan@assaf.org.za
Mmaphuthi Mashiachidi, Project Administrator, mmaphuthi@assaf.org.za