The Perspectives of the Young Physicists Forum of the African Strategy for Fundamental and Applied Physics (ASFAP)

Considering scarce resources, it is important for the world community of scientists, engineers, technicians, funding agencies and policymakers to come together and define a concerted strategy. Such efforts have been or are currently conducted in other regions, including Japan, China, India, Europe, the US and Latin America; all presented their regional or national strategies.Strategic planning should be a bottom-up and community-driven process, even if this means it may take time to culminate into a final report—to advise the scientific community, funding agencies and policymakers on strategic directions to improve research and education. The process to define ASFAP is a true spirit of international cooperation that forms the common denominator of today’s culture of our scientific activities, defining priorities for domestic and inter-regional projects to be supported.

In this talk, we will report progress on the African Strategy for Fundamental and Applied Physics, https://africanphysicsstrategy.org/. Then, we will discuss the focus and scope of the Young Physicists Forum (YPF); one of the working groups in societal engagements under the ASFAP.