Darelle Van Greunen, PhD
South Africa
Professor Van Greunen is Professor and Director of the Center for Community Technologies at Nelson Mandela University. Dr Van Greunen has a PhD in computer science and has published several papers and book chapters and produced a co-edited book on the use of health information and communications technology in South Africa and other low- and middle–income countries. She was the first joint-appointment as a senior researcher between a South African University and the German multinational software corporation SAP AG in 2006. Over the past five years, Professor Van Greunen and her team of change-maker researchers have won various awards and international acknowledgement for their ground-breaking research and application development within the African context, thus realising her vision of “ICT solutions for Africa, by Africans, in Africa”.
Profile created 7 July 2023