GEORGE NEWS - At the annual President's Award Function of the Institute of IT Professionals in South Africa (IITPSA) on Wednesday 27 November, Professor Rossouw von Solms, emeritus professor of the Centre for Research in Information and Cyber Security at the Nelson Mandela University, received the Distinguished Service in ICT Award.
This award is given annually to one individual that contributed extensively to the field of ICT over a long period.
Von Solms received this award for his outstanding contribution to the field of information security, and determination to instil a culture of e-safety through education.
Von Solms, who writes a two-monthly column on cyber security for George
Herald, has been active in the ICT field since 1982, when he was appointed as a lecturer at the then Port Elizabeth Technikon.
He later headed the Department of Information Technology at the PE Technikon, helped establish the Technikon Computer Lecturers Association (Tecla) and served for many years on the Council of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT), winning a SAICSIT Pioneer Award for his role in promoting computer science and ICT as academic disciplines.
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