Jean-Paul van Belle is a Professor at the Department of Information Systems at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Director of the Centre for IT and National Development in Africa (CITANDA).
His research areas are the adoption and use of emerging technologies in developing world contexts including mobile, cloud computing, the platform economy, 4IR, AI, open and big data. Prof Van Belle's passions are ICT4D – with a focus on emerging technologies as well as data for development (D4D) in an SDG context – and adoption of ICTs by small organizations.
He has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications including 25 chapters in books and about 40 refereed journal articles. Prof Van Belle has been invited to give a number of keynote presentations at international conferences and holds an Honorary Professorship at Amity University, India. He currently supervises 15 Masters and PhD students and has graduated many more. Prof Van Belle has active collaborations with researchers in India, UK, Ethiopia, Kenya and Mauritius.
Research interests: ICT for development (ICT4D); emerging technologies; data revolution and SDGs; ICT use by small organizations.
