1. Women In ICT Project

2. Women Researchers as a Percentage of Total Researchers (Headcount) Per Sector (SA, 2003)

3. Higher Education Postgraduate Student Headcount By Gender And Qualification QUALIFICATIONMALEFEMALETOTAL Post-doctoral fellows225132357 Doctoral Degree or Equivalent 453730537590 Masters Degree or Equivalent 10422804618468 Total151841123126415

4. EXPENDITURE ON R&D BY MAJOR RESEARCH FIELD (SA, 2001 & 2003)

5. POSSIBLE INTERVENTIONS Advanced Human Capital Development Programme - dramatically improve post-graduate enrolment and completion rate in ICT by supporting young researchers as students in employment. Critical Mass Research Programme - supporting Focus and Critical Mass R&D in identified technology and application domains through an array of instruments that link established researchers and draw in new women researchers including post-doctoral researchers and international experts available in the NSI system. These include core grant proposal funding, research chairs, networks and centres of excellence, institutes etc. International ICT R&D Collaboration Programme that supports the objectives of the Strategy through collaboration via collaborative R&D projects, researcher mobility and science and technology networking.

6. POSSIBLE INTERVENTIONS (cont.) ICT R&D in Industry Programme – Address current low levels of investment in ICT R&D and low uptake by industry and other sectors of society of research results from academic and other research institutions. Large Innovation Initiatives and Grand Challenges – addressing the innovation chasm by stimulating broad collaboration across disciplines and amongst players in various stages of the innovation pipeline by leveraging the Innovation Fund and other instruments.