Our History

The LINK Centre has its origins in the mid-1990s, at the beginnings of South Africa's democratic era, during a period that saw the establishment of many new education and training entities in the country. The Centre's activities launched in 1996 as the ICT4D programme of the Wits Graduate School of Public and Development Management (P&DM), the precursor to today's Wits School of Governance (WSG), and became the LINK Centre in 2000.

In 2011, the Centre moved over to the Wits Faculty of Humanities, so as to take advantage of that Faculty's research-rich environment, joining the School of Literature, Language and Media (SLLM). The LINK Centre is a also a founding member of, and based at, the Wits Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct. The Tshimologong Precinct is the brainchild of the late Prof Barry Dwolatzky, who also founded the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE).