Jive Media is currently creating some of the most innovative science communication products in South Africa. Robert Inglis, Director of Jive Media, was a winner of the National Science and Technology Forum Awards for Science Communication, for his "contribution to the development of the discipline of science communication through innovative and exciting media".

Recent projects include:

Jive Media has just completed a tour around South Africa visiting the prehistory sites that have shaped world knowledge on the evolution of life - and more recently human life - on our planet. These palaeontological and archaeological sites create a fantastic opportunity to share science with the public. Jive Media has produced 3 books about the sites, specifically a learner guide, a tourism guide and portfolio of research activities. We have also produced a series of newspaper articles that have featured in the Sunday Times Travel and Food supplement and on the Timeslive website (http://www.timeslive.co.za/). Nonhlanhla Vilakazi, a palaeo-herpitologist (studies fossilized reptiles), came along for the ride and recorded her experiences (in words, images and video clips) on a weblog. See www.africanorigins.co.za

• Return to the place of origins - 8 August 2010
• What's buried in the hills - 5 July 2010
• Fine art of the 'first people' - 8 June 2010
• Them stones, them bones - 7 April 2010
• The creatures that time left behind - 10 May 2010

A mobile open-source exhibition for the International Year of Astronomy! Downloadable 10m banner for you to print and exhibit (Client: SAASTA)

A six banner display for MeerKAT/ SKA (for science centres, etc.)

Introducing Agent Zee - watch this space! (for SAASTA)

2 x 8 page comic books for SKA (Square Kilometre Array) and MeerKAT (the Karoo Array Telescope).

Animations for SABC TV (for SAASTA/ the Dept of Science and Technology).
Click here to view these animations...

A series of cartoons (for SAASTA) used in the popular media to raise awareness of South African Scientific research

A poster series distributed to schools throughout South Africa on biotechnology and the science behind it - specifically relating to applications of value to rural communities.

Television inserts on the solar eclipse and a source of specialist knowledge to Mindpool on science education programmes

PR Services to and Newsletters for the Maloti Drakensberg Transfrontier Project explaining conservation and development issues to a broad range of people. We are currently researching, writing and producing a book commissioned by the MDTP for the Tourism market spanning the entire Maloti Drakensberg region - 3 South African Provinces as well as Lesotho.

Jive Media has worked on a range of science communication media topics, including: a cartoon series on marine biosciences, Antarctica, astronomy and African origins; a Poster series on a variety of Biotech issues and Science for Rural Communities; and the solar eclipse in 2002.

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We delivered a number of presentations at the 2nd African Science Communication conference hosted by the South African Agency for Science and Technology advancement/ NRF/ Department of Science and Technology.

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