Dr. Ntsibane Ntlatlapa
LINK Centre Associate Professor and AJIC Managing Editor
ntsibane.ntlatlapa@wits.ac.za
Dr. Ntsibane Ntlatlapa is a LINK Centre Associate Professor and serves as Managing Editor of the Centre's accredited, open access, peer-reviewed journal, The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC). Prior to joining LINK, Ntlatlapa served as Centre Head of the Centre for the 4th Industrial Revolution South Africa (C4IRSA) at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), after a period as the CSIR's Competency Area Manager for NextGen Enterprises and Institutions.
Ntlatlapa holds a PhD in Computer Science (graduated 1999) from Auburn University in the US, and has 25 years of post-doctoral research experience in research and technology development. At the international level, he served as the Vice-Chairperson of the International Telecommunication Union's ITU-T Multimedia Study Group (Study Group 16) for a three-year period.
As a university academic, Ntlatlapa has extensive experience in teaching, supervision, and curriculum development through positions held in Lesotho, Nigeria, the US, and South Africa. At the LINK Centre, he lectures on the Master of Arts in ICT Policy and Regulation (MA ICTPR), participates in postgraduate student supervision, and leads LINK partnership with the ITU for delivery of ITU Academy short courses.