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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how organisations work but the “cloud” that supports it is not a cloud at all, writes Grant Oosterwyk.

The Hasso-Plattner Institute (HPI) and UCT Digital Health Partnership annually grants PhD and Postdoctoral fellowships to qualifying students from the African continent for students working in the field of digital health.

UCT researchers have built MzansiLM, an AI language model covering 11 of South Africa’s official languages, addressing a critical gap in AI tools for low-resource languages.

What if access to credit didn’t depend on formal systems that exclude people? So asked Fanelesibonge Mbuyazi before coming up with a solution.

Godfrey Haonga, a third year PhD student, in Information Systems under the supervision of Professor Lisa Seymour, has recently been awarded the best full paper award at the 2026 UK Academy for Information Systems (UKAIS) conference.

Despite needing a wheelchair to get around UCT's mountainous campus, Daniel Holgate has achieved an Honours in Computer Science and has already started working towards his Master's degree.

As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes how people access information, communicate and learn, a group of South African researchers is working to ensure that African languages are not left behind.

The HPI Research School at UCT congratulates Sarah Dsane-Nsor on completing her PhD in Computer Science, where her work sits at the intersection of digital health, participatory design, and information behaviour.

CISPA researchers visited UCT in February 2026 for a week of research exchange, public talks, a cybersecurity outreach colloquium, and a summer school — marking a milestone in a growing partnership.