White paper

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Charting Our Education Future White Paper On Education (Launch Copy 1995)

Abstract: Education makes a fundamentally important contribution to the quality and well-being of our society. This White Paper addresses itself to the policy framework that can best embrace the diverse and multiple requirements for educational action in the future. The need for and importance of such a framework are widely accepted. In setting out a framework, it is important to provide a philosophical rationale which, far from being merely a theoretical or ceremonial exercise, systematically informs policy formulation and educational practice.

Health policy and legislation

Abstract: The health policy and legislation arena has been dominated in 2015/2016 by the release, after much delay, of the White Paper on National Health Insurance (NHI). Although a White Paper is expected to provide finality on a policy in a manner which is ready for implementation, including the development of any necessary legislation, the NHI document leaves many questions unanswered. The need for major changes to existing legislation is signalled in the White Paper, but few details are provided on exactly how those changes might be made. In addition to changes to the National Health Act and the Medical Schemes Act, and perhaps even the Constitution, the possibility of a new NHI Act is also flighted. Two small steps, in the form of drafts Bills to amend the National Health Laboratory Service Act and to create a new National Public Health Institute of South Africa, have been taken. However, neither Bill has yet been tabled in Parliament. The Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Acts of 2008 and 2015 will need careful promulgation, once the necessary secondary (regulations) and tertiary (guidelines) legislation have been developed. The new South African Health Products Regulatory Authority is not expected to come into operation before 2017, and will have to face not only the backlog in registration applications for medicines that is the legacy of the Medicines Control Council, but also complete and entrench the effective regulation of complementary medicines and medical devices. While there have been strident calls for a fundamental redesign of the Health Professions Council of South Africa in order to create an independent, self-regulatory council for the medical and dental professions, it is unclear whether these calls will be heeded. The Medical Innovation Bill, one of the few Private Member's Bills to be tabled, still languishes in Parliament.

The Role of Social Justice and Poverty in South Africa’s National Climate Change Response White Paper

Abstract: In late 2011 the South African government published a White Paper outlining climate change response policies for the coming decades Among the main topics of the text were the socio-economic and climatic vulnerabilities of the country, including the situation of the poor With the aim of analysing the argumentation regarding climate change and social justice we develop a combined linguistic and discursive approach, starting with occurrences of keywords pertaining to rights, equity and poverty The White Paper's conceptualisation of climate change is explored as a narrative, at the level of the text as a whole This combined analysis shows that the legal rights of the poor are hardly given any place in the argumentation, whereas less constricting political intentions are far more present Furthermore, the text attributes a passive role to the poor, dependent on the benevolence of a government that attributes the role of hero to itself

From social data mining to forecasting socio-economic crises

Abstract: The purpose of this White Paper of the EU Support Action “Visioneer”(see www.visioneer.ethz.ch) is to address the following goals: 1. Develop strategies to quickly increase the objective knowledge about social and economic systems. 2. Describe requirements for efficient large-scale scientific data mining of anonymized social and economic data. 3. Formulate strategies how to collect stylized facts extracted from large data set. 4. Sketch ways how to successfully build up centers for computational social science. 5. Propose plans how to create centers for risk analysis and crisis forecasting. 6. Elaborate ethical standards regarding the storage, processing, evaluation, and publication of social and economic data.