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A team of five students, under the mentorship of Professor Lisa Seymour, entered the SAP Signavio Regional Challenge, where they experimented with real-world business technology, and came third.

A research paper revealed that when technologies like ShotSpotter travel from the Global North to Global South countries they arrive not simply as tools, but as governance scripts that shape how problems are understood.

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.