THE UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND
Supporting Wits ’ digital future with more strategies and app development Understanding the importance of his role to the success of Wits , Mpofu , on top of his work transitioning learning online , has been putting in place other strategies to support the university ’ s transition to digitalisation .
Wits now has unified comms along with mobile applications that Mpofu has helped develop to improve the day-to-day running of the university . These apps help staff and students to complete health and safety questionnaires about COVID-19 to ensure that it is safe to return to the university buildings .
There is also an app for students which they can use to ask for assistance , report something or find resources .
Along with his cyber security strategy , all of these technologyenabled solutions Mpofu has pushed for at Wits “ are being developed to make sure that [ the University ] is equipped for a digital future .”
Wits University produces more millionaires than any other university in South Africa .
“ I ' m very visionary . I ' m always thinking about what I should do better ”
DR STANLEY MPOFU CIO , UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND
Harnessing cloud services to avoid IT disaster Mpofu ’ s plan to adopt cloud technologies to support its learning management system and data storage is crucial to the university .
Utilising Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) and Microsoft Azure ’ s cloud technology , Mpofu explained : “ I had a big project idea of putting the learning management system on the cloud by the time the semester started . On one side I was dealing with the
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