Equalising the information highway
The Hasso-Plattner Institute Research School at UCT congratulates Joseph Telemala on the completion of his PhD in July 2022. His research focused on improving Internet information retrieval for Swahili speakers.
IS team wins 2022 Discovery GradHack
A team of Information Systems Honours students put in an outstanding performance at the 2022 Discovery GradHack competition and won first place.
New ratings of service apps’ labour practices aim to inform consumer choices
On 8 September 2022, staff of the Department of Information Systems released the results of the annual Fairwork South Africa Ratings.
UCT team wins Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge
Four UCT Information Systems honours students won the Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge – an international cybersecurity policy competition.
Postgraduate Studies in Information Systems
The Department of Information Systems offers well established and intellectually challenging postgraduate programmes in Information Systems (IS) and Information Technology (IT) at all levels for full-time and part-time students.
Sarah Vuningoma
PhD Fellow since 2022
Supervisor:
Ulrike Rivett
Research Topic: Digital Technology inequality and socio-economic inclusions during COVID-19 Pandemic: crisis among refugees in South Africa
Enock Tung'ande Mbewe
PhD Fellow since 2019
Supervisor:
Josiah Chavula
Research Topic: Cost-aware Internet Security Decision Model
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Guidance Mthwazi
PhD Fellow since 2020
Supervisor:
Irwin Brown
Research Topic: The Influence of Electronic Governance on Public Service Delivery
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Toky Raboanary
PhD Fellow since 2019
Supervisor:
Maria Keet
Research Topic: Generating Answerable Questions from Ontologies
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Sarah Dsane
PhD Fellow since 2019
Supervisor:
Melissa Densmore
Research Topic: Exploring Digital Interaction among Parents within the First Thousand Days in Bandwidth-Constrained communities
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