A new wide-ranging explores ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ¡¯s global research initiatives, priorities and outlook.
¡°Promoting useful scientific discoveries aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ institutes take a long view on current and future global issues that will be relevant beyond four or five-year election cycles. Thematically, the breadth of research is vast, from tackling drought to UN Peacebuilding, conflict and migration, water, technology and much more.¡±
¡°The university¡¯s Rector, Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, has a vision for ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ to create knowledge that advances sustainable development in partnership with other like-minded academic institutions across geographic borders. Marwala is unequivocal about the importance of grounding ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ¡¯s research in promoting sustainable development¡±.
The article goes on to spotlight some of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ¡¯s institutes and experts, and a renewed commitment to generating knowledge that connects the Global North and Global South.
As ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ pivots to focus on the growing impacts and opportunities surrounding technology and artificial intelligence (AI), Rector Marwala emphasized: ¡°If you ask a conventional policymaker what giving access to AI means to the Global South, the answer is access to data,¡± Marwala said. ¡°We tackle the policy issues of data poverty ¡ª how do you facilitate access to the applications of this technology in health, agriculture and transportation.¡±
