2026 Annual DIRISA National Research Data Workshop

Speaker List

• Stephanie ARNOLD, PhD Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) 53113 Bonn, Germany
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    Pros and Cons of Public–Sector Data Sharing Partnerships: Lessons from a Climate Resilience Collaboration in South Africa

• Sandile Buthelezi SMU
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    Data Sovereignty - The African Mint.

• Siyamayambo Claris UP
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    The Impact of Spatial Connectivity Structures on Model Fit, Inference, and Data Integration in Spatial Epidemiology and Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: A Systematic Review

• Nobert Jere University of Fort Hare
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    A Data Sovereignty Model for Secure Cloud Governance and Critical National Infrastructure to Reclaim Africa's Digital Assets.

• Dennis Mabalane University of Botswana
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    Strengthening Academic Integrity and Research Data Governance through AI-Enhanced Turnitin Integration in Moodle LMS: A Case Study of the University of Botswana

• Bonza Majozi University of Pretoria
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    Building a Privacy-Preserving Conversational Data Infrastructure to Advance African Language Technologies and Data Sovereignty

• Pfano Makhera University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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    Balancing Access, Ownership, and Impact: Lessons from Wits on Public–Private Research Data Sharing

• Hlaudi Masethe Tshwane University of Technology
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    A Retrieval-Based NLP Chatbot for Setswana Proverbs and Idioms Interpretation Using TF-IDF and Cosine Similarity

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    An Explainable Attention-Based Deep Learning Framework for Breast Cancer Classification with Hyperparameter Tuning and Ablation Studies

• Nosipho Mavuso Walter Sisulu University
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    AI-Powered Data Literacy for the Next Generation of Researchers: Rethinking Research Skills Development in Higher Education

• Sifiso Mgaga CSIR
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    The National Policy Data Observatory

• Sthembiso Mkhwanazi CSIR
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    IDW 2027 Announcement and Update

• Tselane Moahloli Mining
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• Mamoqenelo Morolong National University of Lesotho
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    A Systematic Review of Cyber Resilience of African Higher Learning Institutions: Safeguarding Research Data and Student Data

• Charlie Ndlovu University of Mpumalanga
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    AI-Enabled Adaptive Cybersecurity Governance model for Multi-Campus Higher Education Institutions in South Africa: A Proactive Approach to POPIA

• Edward Nkadimeng University of the Witwatersrand
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    An AIoT Platform for Real-Time Community Air Quality Monitoring and Population Health Surveillance in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Kholofelo Robyn Rababalela Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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    POC vs. FOC in Data Governance: Finding Patterns within Chaos to Reclaim African Digital Sovereignty

• Rosina Ramokgola University of Pretoria
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    Integrating DMPTool into institutional research support services: enhancing research data management practices

• TSHIMANGADZO GETRUDE SADIKI The Psychological Society of South Africa
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    Rethinking Research Data Repositories: Lessons from Public Sector Knowledge Management

• Moeletji Semenya
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    From Data-Driven to Data-Informed: Rethinking Service Development for African Research Data Infrastructures

• Nobubele Shozi University of Johannesburg
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    Securing Research Infrastructure for Digital Innovation and Scientific Excellence.

• Ben Steyn Altron Digital Business Solution
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    Storage for the AI-Driven Era

• Benito Trollip South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), North-West University
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    What influences language resource reuse? The SADiLaR repository as a case study

• Kirchner Van Deventer Stellenbosch University
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    Beyond the Template: Driving Data Stewardship and Literacy with SunDMP

• Zoya Vilakazi SANReN
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    South African National Research and Education Network Cyber Threat Landscape: A Current Perspective

• Isabel Linda Zulu-Moyo University of Eswatini
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    Cyber Risk Intelligence Dashboard Framework for Regulatory Decision-Making in theTelecommunications Sector