AfICTA Award Winner
Dr. Stanley Mpofu's vision is to build an ICT department that is relevant and agile, deals with issues with urgency with an aim of contributing to a university that is in a digital state, competing internationally". The COVID-19 lockdown forced the Dr and his team to move swiftly in scaling their capacity to provide students with access to the Learning Management System.
The Dr has also established the current ICT operations and the environment has established a Digital Program with clearly identified deliverables. His team has by using AWS has successfully migrated its LMS platform to the cloud, Wits can also ensure that its Sakai LMS environment has high availability and is fault-tolerant. This means that even at peak demand, students and lecturers can access Sakai, whereas the previous on-premise solution could not handle peak demands.