The DUT e-Skills Hub is a vibrant, resourceful driver of the social uptake of e-skills and the infusion of technology in processes to improve the quality of life of the majority of people. It will do this by engaging in applications-inspired research, by engaging with communities, government and the IT industry and by rolling out a large number of skills development programmes - including the development of formal programmes. A special training emphasis will be aimed at thought leaders in the province. It will engage thought-leaders, managers and other critical stakeholders and develop their individual and specific skills by training and advocacy so that they may relate to e-skills and become champions of this process. DUT will bring its considerable capacity to bear on this project.
The Hub will focus on three areas of specialisation. Two of these are areas of direct engagement with sector stakeholders and these are the areas of e-government and e-education. The third area relates to a research enterprise to understand how best to provide bandwidth to rural communities. These projects will all be underpinned by research and the development of skills through postgraduate education. To facilitate its work, the Hub will engage in a continuous environmental scan.
