UCT Department of Information Systems

28/09/2026

The ICIS – The International Conference on Information Systems is the prime conference in the field of Information Systems (Association for Information Systems). This year, the conference takes place in Lisbon (Portugal).

Congratulations to our students and staff for papers accepted for the 2026 ICIS conference.

Oosterwyk, G., & Ngwenayma, O. (2026). Developing a theory of the problem of acoustic surveillance. In ICIS 2026 proceedings.

Molati, K., Snyman., & Chigona, W. (2026). What makes one mechanism more plausible than another? A critical realist framework for causal adjudication. In ICIS 2026 proceedings.

11/09/2026

We are proud to announce that Angela Achiaa Aikins has completed her PhD for a thesis titled "Towards a Mobile Application that Supports the Cyber- Arm Role of Librarians"

Angela was supervised by Professor Michael Kyobe.

Congratulations, Dr. Angela Achiaa Aikins!

08/07/2026

We are proud to announce that our very own, Pitso Tsibolane, has completed his PhD for a thesis titled "Re-membering Indigenous Identity: A Grounded Theory of Digitalisation in South African Indigenous Financial Institutions (Stokvels)."

Pitso was supervised by Professor Irwin Brown.

Congratulations, Dr. Pitso Tsibolane.

26/06/2026

We are proud to announce that Zizipho Ndyave, has completed her PhD for a thesis titled " Mitigating ransomware attacks in South Africa using a visualisation tool for cybersecurity analysts."

Zizipho was supervised by Professor Michael Kyobe.

Congratulations, Dr. Zizipho Ndyave, PhD!

17/06/2026

We are proud to announce that Rebecca Wanjiku Njuguna has completed her PhD for a thesis titled "Digital Transformation of Indigenous Finance Groups in Afrika: A Systems and Postcolonial Analysis."

Rebecca was supervised by Professor Ulrike Rivett.

Congratulations, Dr. Rebecca Wanjiku Njuguna!

10/06/2026

A pioneer to many. Celebrating a giant in the IS domain.

Emeritus Professor Ojelanki Ngwenyama's impact on Information Systems research and education at UCT, and across the globe, is difficult to overstate.

A new University of Cape Town Faculty of Commerce article captures something of the holistic, liberating pedagogy that has shaped more than 40 PhD scholars and over 100 research papers out of our department.

What stands out to is how Ojelanki has always understood that becoming a scientist is also a process of deconditioning the mind, stripping away the filters that tell young researchers from the Global South that science belongs to someone else, somewhere else. Barefoot lectures, meditation, music, whatever it takes to dissolve those barriers and make space for genuine inquiry.

For those in the IS PhD programme at the University of Cape Town, his fingerprints are everywhere.

A well-deserved recognition. 👏

Association for Information Systems

Emeritus Professor Ojelanki Ngwenyama’s holistic pedagogical practices have been shaping information systems research and academia at UCT for nearly three decades.

09/06/2026

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.

19/05/2026

We are proud to announce that Donald Flywell Malanga has completed his PhD for a thesis titled "The influence of user expectations on the continuance intentions of community health workers to use medical logistic information systems: The case of Cstock in Malawi."

Donald was supervised by Professor Wallace Chigona.

Congratulations, Dr. Donald Flywell Malanga!

30/04/2026

It is with great pleasure and pride that we announce that Dr. Dirk Snyman has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor!

Please join us in congratulating A/Prof Dirk Snyman!