<div dir="ltr"><div>Hola</div><div>Este intercambio puede ser de interés para todos y todas los que deseen participar en la IAU GA 2024 en Sudáfrica de manera virtual.</div><div>Kevin Govender (chair de la GA) autoriza a difundirlo.</div><div><br></div><div>saludos</div><div>B<br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>De: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Kevin Govender</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:kg@astro4dev.org">kg@astro4dev.org</a>></span><br>Date: jue, 21 dic 2023 a las 16:52<br>Subject: Re: IAU GA 2024<br>To: Beatriz Garcia <<a href="mailto:beatriz.garcia@iteda.cnea.gov.ar">beatriz.garcia@iteda.cnea.gov.ar</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Dear Beatriz<br><div>I completely agree with you. The cost for registering for the IAU GA is indeed very high for many of the people we want to be part of it. Our decision to make the meeting open access (i.e. all talks will be live streamed) will be a start towards getting more people involved. However, we do want people to be able to fully participate virtually. The mechanism we have for the target audience you mention is the grant application which one can complete when completing the abstract submission. Those grants can be used to waive the fees for virtual participation. Please advise anyone you know who is looking to access the meeting to please submit a grant application and request in that application that their fees are waived for virtual participation.</div><div>I hope this helps.</div><div>Regards</div><div>Kevin</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 at 14:51, Beatriz Garcia <<a href="mailto:beatriz.garcia@iteda.cnea.gov.ar" target="_blank">beatriz.garcia@iteda.cnea.gov.ar</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Kevin,</div><div>this is a formal email to share some thoughts about the next IAU GA in South Africa and the attendance possibility for some people on the planet.</div><div>It is clear that the organization has a lot of needs about funds to carry out with success the encounter.</div><div>However, I consider that the inscription for onlite participants is very high. The situation right now is such that many astronomers on the planet will not assist to Assemble in person, because of the costs of flights and allocation and the economical, social, political, situation in each country.</div><div><br></div><div>The online participation is one of the inclusive decisions from some organizing committees of scientific activities, beautiful the inscription is high, the inclusion and equity automatically are going down.</div><div><br></div><div>For this, this message is to ask about the possibility to include between all the organization topics, the chance to ask for a free online participation in the GA, mainly for PhD students, young astronomers and marginalized populations, who will be happy to participate but <span lang="en"><span><span>their rights are reduced for economic or other reasons</span></span>.<span><span> Of course, we are not talking about </span></span></span><span lang="en"><span><span> exempting </span></span></span><span lang="en"><span><span>everyone, just analyzing special cases.</span></span></span></div><div><span lang="en"><span><span><br></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="en"><span><span>Thank you very much for taking into account this message</span></span></span></div><div><span lang="en"><span><span>with my best regards</span></span></span></div><div><span lang="en"><span><span>Beatriz<br></span></span></span></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Kevin Govender<br>IAU Office of Astronomy for Development<br><a href="http://www.astro4dev.org" target="_blank">www.astro4dev.org</a><br><br></div>
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