Programming Committee

Conference Chair

Jean Greyling
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Programme Co-Chairs


Reinhardt Botha, School of ICT, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Charmain Cilliers, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

International Programming Committee

Alan Abrahams, Wharton School of Business, USA
Tarryn Abrahams, Wharton School of Business, USA
Trish Alexander, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Udo Averweg, eThekwini Municipality, South Africa
Shaun Bangay, Rhodes University, South Africa
Lynette Barnard, Nelson Mandela M University, South Africa
Sonia Berman, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Regina Bernhaupt, University of Salzburg, Austria
Judith Bishop, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Irwin Brown, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Elaine Bryne, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Andre Calitz, Nelson Mandela M University, South Africa
Nathan Clarke, University of Plymouth, UK
Carina de Villiers, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Ruth de Villiers, University of South Africa, South Africa
Lizette de Wet, University of the Free State, South Africa
Prof Alan Dix, Lancaster University, UK
Lucas Dreyer , Barone, Budge & Dominick, South Africa
Lynette Drevin, North West University, South Africa
Simone Fisher-Huebner, Karlstad University, Sweden
Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany
Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK
Lynne Futcher, Nelson Mandela M University, South Africa
Nestor Garay-Vitoria, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatae, Spain
Bogdan Ghita, University of Plymouth, UK
Michael Goldweber, Xavier University, USA
Stefan Gruner, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Scott Hazelhurst, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Nigel Horspool, University of Victoria, Canada
Lech Jancsweski, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Paula Kotze, Meraka Institute, South Africa
Derrick Kourie, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Philip Machanick, The University of Queensland, Australia
Sanjay Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Irene Mavommati, Patras University, Greece
Mohamed Mosbah, University of Bordeaux 1, France
Dirk Muthig, Fraunhofer Institute Kaiserslautern, Germany
Ernest Ngassam, SAP South Africa
Martin Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Jacques Ophoff, Nelson Mandela M University, South Africa
Phillipe Palanque, Université Toulouse 3, France
Jackie Phahlamohlaka, CSIR, South Africa
Dalenca Pottas, Nelson Mandela M University, South Africa
Laurette Pretorius, UNISA, South Africa
Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University, Frankfurt
Karen Renaud, University of Glasgow, UK
Andrew Rutherford, Nelson Mandela M University, South Africa
Paula Alexandra Silva, Lancaster University, UK
Daniel Sinnig, Concordia University, Canada
Hussein Suleman, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Estelle Taylor, North West University, South Africa
Theda Thomas, ACU National, Australia
Alta van der Merwe, UNISA, South Africa
Darelle van Greunen, Nelson Mandela M University, South Africa
Johan van Niekerk, Nelson Mandela M University, South Africa
Alison Varey, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Markel Vigo, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatae, Spain
Herna Viktor, University of Ottawa, Canada
Dieter Vogts, Nelson Mandela M University, South Africa
Roussouw von Solms, Nelson Mandela M University, South Africa
Åke Waldius, HCI-group/CSC/KTH, Sweden
Bruce Watson, Prof.Dr., South Africa
Janet Wesson, Nelson Mandela M University, South Africa
Alf Zugenmeier, NTT DoCoMo Euro-labs, Germany

Important Dates

26 September 2008
Final date for Registration

6 October 2008
Postgraduate Symposium
Grand Challenges Workshop

7-8 October 2008
SAICSIT Conference