INF6000W
:: Doctorate in Information Systems
Recent Graduates
Felix
Bollou
ASSOCIATE 2009 |
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Felix Bollou is a faculty member in the School of Information Technology
and Communications, American University of Nigeria and also Research
Scientist at the Institute for Innovation and Technology Management of the
Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Canada and member of
the SAP University Alliance User group. Felix is a PhD candidate at the
School of Commerce, University of Cape Town, South Africa. He holds an
Engineering degree in Computer Science and a DESS (Masters) from the
Institute of Business Management, University of Paris 1, Pantheon -
Sorbonne, France. Felix’s research is in the areas of information systems
and applied economics. His current research focuses on the impact of
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on development in West
African countries, Service Oriented Architecture and Business Intelligence.
His teaching interests are in Systems Dynamics, Business Process Design,
Systems Analysis and Design, Enterprise Integration and Database Management.
Felix has over 6 years experience in academia and over 15 years experience
in IT consultancy, project management and application development in various
industries in Africa, Europe and North America. |
Cheryl Brown
cbrown@ched.uct.ac.za
ASSOCIATE 2005 |
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CHED, UCT
Contact details:
Phone: 650 5035 (w) 686 2684 (h)
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Irwin
Brown
Irwin.Brown@uct.ac.za
ASSOCIATE 2001 - 2005 |
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Associate Professor, Information Systems, University of Cape Town Irwin completed his undergraduate degree in Engineering at the University of Zimbabwe in
Harare and did his Masters in IS at Curtin University of Technology, Australia. He has worked around the globe,
including stints while at Curtin and then Polytechnic of
Namibia. He joined the department in July 2000 and has worked in a variety of
undergraduate and post-graduate courses. He is currently involved in the
Part-time Honours programme and has done lots of exciting research, key being
his just completed PhD entitled: "Espoused Theory versus Theory In Use: The
Case of Strategic Information Systems Planning". Check out his
homepage!
Contact details
Tel. 650-4260
Fax 650-2280
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Sibongiseni Dakela
DakelaS@cput.ac.za
ASSOCIATE 2006 |
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Lyn Hanmer
lyn.hanmer@mrc.ac.za
ASSOCIATE 2000 - 2009 |
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Lyn Hanmer trained as a biomedical engineer and is currently a scientist and research manager at the South
African Medical Research Council. Her major interests and activities in relation to health informatics are
evaluation of health information systems, organisational aspects of the development and implementation of
health information systems (especially the transfer of systems and experience from developed to developing
countries), health information standardisation, and capacity development. She is the secretary of the South
African Health Informatics Association (SAHIA), and a member of several national committees related to health
informatics.
Address:
Health Informatics R&D Co-ordination
Informatics & Communication Group
Medical Research Council
P.O. Box 19070, Tygerberg, South Africa, 7505
Contact details
Tel. 938-0343 (Office)
Fax 938-0315
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Tiko Iyamu
iyamu@oldmutual.com,
iymtik001@uct.ac.za
ASSOCIATE 2004-2007 |
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Work experience
Tiko started his carrier as a software developer with Aquarius Computers in
Lagos, Nigeria. While in South Africa (SA), Tiko has worked for Nedcor
Investment Bank (NIB) and Metropolitan Life as Analyst programmer and
Systems Analyst respectively. Tiko was the IT Chief Architect for the City
of Cape Town from 2000 - 2001. He is currently with Old Mutual as IT
Enterprise Architect.
Academic Background
Tiko Iyamu obtained his Masters degree in Information Systems at the
University of the Western Cape (UWC).
Doctoral research
Tiko graduate with a PhD in 2007. His research was on IT Strategy &
Organisational Politics, and addressed the question as to how we can
identify and analyse the fundamental human and non-human issues and factors
affecting IT strategy.
Contact details
iymtik001@uct.ac.za
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Kevin
Johnston
Kevin.Johnston@uct.ac.za
ASSOCIATE 2008 |
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Kevin
Johnston is currently senior lecturer and Head of Department of the
Department of information Systems at the University of Cape Town (UCT),
South Africa. Kevin completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science &
Mathematics at Rhodes University, did his Honours in Computer Science
through UNISA, and his Masters in IS at UCT. Taught Mathematics & Science at
High Schools, before working for 24 years in industry for companies such as
Wilson-Rowntree, De Beers, Liberty Life, Lifegro (Legal & General Volkskas)
and BoE. Joined UCT in 2001 as Senior Lecturer in the Department of
Information Systems. |
Raymond Kekwaletswe
ray@raymk.com
ASSOCIATE 2004-2007 |
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Education:
Master of Science in Computer Information Systems and Technology, American
University, Washington DC, USA
Bachelor of Science in Audio Technology (Physics), American University,
Washington DC, USA
Bachelor of Arts in Communication: Visual Media, American University,
Washington DC, USA
Work:
Manager of Multimedia and Digital Computing, American University, Washington
DC, USA
Duties included Systems Administration, Technical Support, Multimedia Design
& Application.
Raymond is now with Tshwane University of Technology.
Additional work:
Audio Engineer at Black Entertainment Television (BET), Washington DC
Broadcast Graphic Designer at American Broadcasting Company (ABC),
Baltimore, MD
Current: PhD studies
Raymond graduated with PhD in 2007. The topic was entitled "Knowledge
Transformation in a Mobile Learning Environment: An Interpretive Inquiry of
Ubiquitous Context and Social Presence Awareness"Contact details:
ray@raymk.com
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Nhlanhla
Boyfriend Mlitwa
nmlitwa@gmail.com;
mlitwan@cput.ac.za
ASSOCIATE 2005 |
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Nhlanhla comes from a diverse working and academic background.
Work History
Nhlanhla worked as a foreign exchange officer, a cheque accounts controller,
and a data capturist at Nedbank (Port Shepstone) before resuming his higher
education studies at UCT in 1994. He worked as a Tutor of Public Policy (Pol
331s) at UCT in 1998 and a tutor of computer skills at Humarga Lab at
Stellenbosch University in 1999-2001. He joined HBD venture capital (www.hbdvc.com)
and bridges.org (www.bridges.org) as an ICT policy analyst for Mark
Shuttleworth in 2001 2003. Nhlanhla is currently a researcher for HictE
(or ICT in higher education) which is a Carnegie funded collaborative
project between higher education institutions in the Western Cape: CPUT,
STELLENBOSCH, UCT, and UWC. The objective of HictE is to enhance the quality
of teaching and learning at tertiary institutions, through innovative use of
ICT.
Academic background
Nhlanhla (or Boyfriend as he is commonly known) spent most of his
undergraduate life between the classroom and student leadership. He served
as a sub-warded at Woolscak (1996/97) and the Deputy President of the SRC in
1997. He obtained his Bachelor of Social Science (Bsoc. Sc) degree at UCT in
1997; an Mphil (Political Management) at Stellenbosch in 2000, an MA
(International Relations) at Stellenbosch in 2001, and a TRPM qualification
from the Wits Graduate School (the Link Centre) which focused on the
regulation, policy, and management of ICT and telecommunications in 2002.
Nhlanhlas research interest is in the adoption and usage of educational ICT
at tertiary level.
Contact Details
Tel: 0725853347
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Alemayehu
("Alex") Molla
amolla@commerce.uct.ac.za
ASSOCIATE 1999 - 2002 |
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Academic background: BA in Business Management (1989); M. Sc. in Information
Science (1995) and Diploma in Computer Science (1995). In December 2002, he
became our first doctoral graduate with a thesis on "E-commerce readiness and e-commerce success from the developing
countries perspective". Contact details
Tel. 650- 4233 (Office)
Fax 650-2280
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Athulang
Mutshewa
Amutshew@commerce.uct.ac.za
ASSOCIATE 2001 - 2006 |
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Academic background: BSc. (Physics and Environmental Science) University of
Botswana; 1988. Postgraduate Diploma in Education - University of
Botswana; 1989. Masters in Library and Information Studies - University of
Botswana; 1997. Work experience: Science Teacher in a Secondary School, Botswana; 1989
to 1994. Worked as a science assistant systems library, at the University
of Botswana Library; 1995 to 1999. Lecturer, Department of Library and
Information Studies, University of Botswana, 1999 to date.
Current research interests: Management and dissemination of
Environmental Information.
Contact details
Tel. 650- 4233 (Office)
Fax 650-2280
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Dick Ng'ambi
Dngambi@ched.uct.ac.za
ASSOCIATE 2000
- 2004 |
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Dick Ngambi obtained a PhD in Information Systems in December 2004.
Dicks thesis, "Towards a Knowledge Sharing Framework Based on Student
Questions: The Case for a Dynamic FAQ Environment" investigated the impact
of anonymous computer mediated interaction on question-driven knowledge
acquisition among students. .
The practical contribution of his research lies in the extension of the
current limitations of cluster-based informal consultation (through DFAQ - a
special purpose Web-Based anonymous consultative environment he developed),
creation of a knowledge resource from informal consultations and allowing
educators access to knowledge informally shared among students. The
theoretical contribution lies in the methodology of analysing the three
dimensions of computer mediated interaction: text, interaction and social
context. Dicks knowledge sharing framework, which integrates Structuration
Theory into a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) underpinned by various
theories, has provided a way of operationalizing CDA and Structuration
Theory in Information Systems Research. The significance of his thesis was
summed up by the comment of one external examiner who said: It makes a
substantial contribution to the knowledge in the field of Information
Systems and it demonstrates independent critical power in the handling and
interpretation of the data that was acquired as part of this work.
Dr Ngambi is currently the Co-ordinator of Research and Learning Design at
the Centre for Educational Technologies (CET) at the University of Cape
Town. Formerly a goalkeeper, he plays fun soccer and enjoys jogging. |
Kennedy Nduati Njenga
nduatik@yahoo.com,
njnken001@uct.ac.za
ASSOCIATE 2005 - 2009 |
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Kennedy has recently joined UCT as a full time student from Ernst & Young
Nairobi office.
Academic Background. BA in Business and Technology management (Moi
University), (1997), and a Masters of electronic commerce, University of
Notre Dame Australia. (2002)
Kennedy has trained as a business analyst in one of the leading Big 4
companies. His major interest lies in e-business consulting and e-security.
He has industry assurance experience in key leading industries including the
energy, telecoms, and manufacturing sectors. His other interests include
system control checks, profiling, vulnerability assessments, systems reviews
and attestations
Contact details
Tel. 0829691762
Fax 650-2280
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Nixon
Muganda Ochara
Nixon.Ochara@uct.ac.za
ASSOCIATE 2005 - 2009 |
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I have a Management Science Honors degree and an MBA (Management
Information Systems) from University of Nairobi, Kenya. I worked for two
years in Customer Support for Africa Online in Kenya, an Internet Service
Provider. I then moved to Nairobinet Online, a startup Internet Service
Provider as a Customer Support Manager for two years before joining fulltime
MBA studies (1999-2001). After completing my MBA studies, I joined Symphony,
an IBM distributor in Eastern Africa, as a Business Analyst in the Software
Services Division. I had a stint in this company for two years before
joining the University of Nairobi since 2003 as a Lecturer in the Department
of Management Science, School of Business.
Summary of Educational Background:
- 2005-Current: PhD Candidate, Department of Information Systems, UCT.
PhD Topic: A Critical Investigation of the E-Government Artifact
My research on E-Government is under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Paul
Van Belle. I am interested in how developing countries make sense of the
E-Government Artifact and the implications that the emergent meanings
have on the problem of Social Exclusion. My intention is to propose a
framework for building inclusive E-Government infrastructures. Possible
publications from the draft thesis include the following:
- Managing the E-Government Adoption Process in Kenya's Local
Authorities, 10TH IBIMA 2008 Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- A Critical Investigation of Internet Diffusion in Kenya (Under review,
Communications for the Association of Information Systems).
- Emergence of the E-Government Artifact in an environment of social
exclusion in Kenya: Critical Analysis (final submission to the African
Journal of Information Systems).
- 1999-2001: Masters in Business Administration (Management
Information Systems Option), University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
Thesis Title: An Investigation of the Business Value of E-Commerce: The
Case of Selected Firms in Kenya (Results published in the 2007, 9th
IBIMA Conference, Dublin, Ireland).
- 1992-1996: Bachelor of Commerce (Management Science Honors),
University of Nairobi, Nairobi (www.uonbi.ac.ke), Kenya.
Management Research Project: Queuing Problem: Simulation-Based Model of
a Campus Clinic
Contact Details:
Tel. +27(21)6504670
Fax: +27(21)6502280
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Jo Rhodes
jorhodes44@yahoo.com
ASSOCIATE 2000 - 2004 |
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Dr Jo Rhodes received her doctorate in Dec 2004, entitled: Relating
Marketing and E-commerce to the Local Social Appropriation of Information
Communication Technology.
The purpose of this research has been to examine how information
communication technology (ICT) can be integrated with an extant rural
development organization to improve the effectiveness of trading activities.
Following a multidisciplinary approach to studying the implementation and
use of (ICT) in developmental contexts this study integrates a range of
economic development theories; critiquing traditional economic theories,
offering alternative approaches, such as Human Scale Development, and
integrating these with theories of marketing and theories of information
technology and use. Accompanying these theories is an historical and
contextual analysis, tracing the emergence of the explicit socio-political
conditions, within which these new ICTs were to be situated. From this
convergence a conceptual framework integrating the three major viewpoints of
development, technology and development and marketing was derived with which
to explore the local appropriation of ICTs within a rural, gender
development organization.
An interpretative field study, using participative action research, was the
main data collection methodology. The empirical results are discussed in two
parts. First, the action research results are examined through the
conceptual framework of Human Scale Development, marketing and E-commerce;
Second, Actor-Network Theory, a broader sociological perspective, is applied
to encapsulate and address the issues that deal with how the technology will
be embedded in the evolving social process of modernization in developing
countries.
Jo is currently an adjunct lecturer at the Australian Graduate School of
Management (UNSW), at Macquarie University and with offshore MBA programs in
China; she will shortly take up a position of lecturer at the Griffith
University Business School, Brisbane, Australia. |
Kosheek Sewchurran
Kosheek.Sewchurran@uct.ac.za
ASSOCIATE 2006 - 2009 |
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Farid Shirazi
f2shiraz@ryerson.ca
ASSOCIATE 2008 |
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Farid Shirazi holds B.Sc.Eng., M.Sc. in
Applied Computer Science, and is currently Assistant Professor at Ted
Rogers School of Information Technology Management, Ryerson University,
Canada. Farid is a PhD candidate at the School of Commerce, University
of Cape Town, South Africa. He poses various professional
certifications, such as MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer), MCSE, MCSD,
MCDBA, A+, Network+, Novell, Linux+, Cisco, Certified .NET programmer
and Certified Java programmer among others. Before joining the faculty
of Information Technology Management at Ryerson University, he has
worked as a senior network administrator at Advance Microsystems (AMS)
Inc. for more than seven years, providing solutions for a wide range of
network infrastructure from wired to wireless networks. His work
experience in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
has inspired him to start his research on ICT management in developing
countries. His research focuses mainly on ICT and Globalization and in
particular the contribution of ICTs to social and economic development
in the Middle East. His research interests expand also to the modeling
of ethical and security perspectives associated with the introduction
and use of information and communication technologies and in particular
areas such as e-government strategies, ethical and security issues and
the processes of e-democracy in developing countries. |
Michael Twum Darko
mtdarko@hotmail.com
ASSOCIATE 2002-2007 |
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Work experience
Michael started his carrier as a software developer in Ghana. He moved
to Botswana in the mid 80s as IT Training Coordinator at Computer Academic
of Botswana. He became a Lecturer/Senior lecturer/Deputy Head of department
in Computer Studies at Botswana Institute of Administration and Commerce and
then a lecturer. While in Botswana he consulted for many companies and sat
numerous IT/IS committees. He Joined the Computer Science Department of
University of Transkie from 1995 and then Cape Town City Council IT
Department in Late 1998. Before Joining Safmarine Computer Services in 2003
as Divisional Director software development, Mike was the Head of IT
Programme Management Office at the City of Cape Town until end of 2001. He
joined SARS Western Cape as a senior project manager on the SIYAKHA project
until end of 2002. He is now working in Pretoria
Academic Background
Michael Twum-Darko obtained his Masters degree in Computer Science at
American Institute for Computer Sciences, Alabama, USA and B.Sc. (Hons)
Computer Science from University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Doctoral research
Michael graduated with a PhD in 2007. He investigated the role of an
information system in Legislation Led Reform (LLR). The research addressed
the question as to the logical relationship between reform and an
information system as a structure to ensure institutionalization of aligned
diverse interests of actors in a social network.
Contact details
Tel. 0837956751 / 021 4086751
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Jean-Paul Van Belle
Jean-paul.VanBelle@uct.ac.za
ASSOCIATE 1997-2003 |
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Senior Lecturer, Information Systems, University of Cape Town Jean-Paul hails from Belgium where completed his undergraduate degree in
Economic Sciences at the University of Ghent. He did a B.Comm (Hons) IS at UCT
as well as an MBA (Stellenbosch) before starting on his Ph D. He lectured at the
University of the Western Cape before joining the staff at UCT in 1997. There is
way too much information about him to put here but check out his extensive
homepage to find out about his research, publications, family and amazing
sports adventures.
Click here for more details on his doctoral thesis "A framework for the analysis
and evaluation of enterprise models".
Contact details
Tel. 650- 4256 (Office)
Fax 650-2280
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