News
Saturday, 16 October 2021
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.
Publication Date:
Mon, 28 Jun 2021 - 16:30
The Intercontinental Academia (ICA) has chosen Associate Professor Deshen Moodley as a fellow for the 4th edition of ICA.
Publication Date:
Tue, 25 May 2021 - 19:15
One of the School of IT’s Information Systems Masters students, Lina Lukusa, has had her essay selected for the St. Gallen Global Essay Competition and been chosen as a Leader of Tomorrow. The 2021 theme is: “A Matter of Trust: How can Trust be Rebuild When It’s Lost?”
Publication Date:
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 - 20:15
Small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in sub-Saharan Africa have faced a range of cybersecurity issues in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with scaling digital capacity exposing SMMEs to threats like ransomware, phishing and supply chain attacks. A recent cybersecurity webinar hosted by the Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa (C3SA) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) shared some insights.
Publication Date:
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 - 13:45
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In 2018, UCT launched the new School of Information Technology in response to the growing needs of the South African and global tech industry, and the increasing demand for university qualifications in the sector.
The 4th revolution is on the horizon and developments such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analysis and Cloud Computing are resulting in technologies becoming part of our daily lives. The Internet is around us all the time with the watches we wear, the phones we use and the way we communicate.
The School of Information Technology at UCT leverages the excellent research and teaching of the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Information Systems to create a new pool of talent, transforming the IT sector and responding to the national agenda for ICT.