“Towards Gender Justice in STEM Research in Africa” has received funding for three years from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of the Government of Canada for ZAR 13 million.

The annual University of Cape Town (UCT) School of IT Showcase will take place virtually on Wednesday, 3rd November 2021. The event will take place between 16h00 and 18h00 (UTC 2) at showcase.sit.uct.ac.za.

A Human-Computer Interaction researcher at the University of Cape Town, who doubles as a lecturer at Koforidua Technical University in the Eastern Region, Sarah Dsane, says an increasing need for information for especially new parents has seen them res

Associate Professor Maria Keet of the Department of Computer Science has won the UCT's Open Textbook Award for her “exemplary resource”, An Introduction to Ontology Engineering. 

Fairwork, a collaborative project involving the University of Cape Town (UCT), released its third report on work in the gig economy in South Africa on 8 July 2021. The report presents a set of scores that evaluates gig economy platforms such as Uber, S

The Fairwork Project has launched its third round of yearly ratings for digital platforms in South Africa, highlighting the precarious nature of work in the gig economy.

On behalf of the Fairwork project at the University of Oxford and the University of Cape Town, the School of IT would like to invite you to the live launch of the third round of Fairwork ratings for South Africa.

Dr Melissa Densmore’s research into bandwidth-constrained communities in and around Cape Town tackles difficult questions about what the internet should look like in Africa.