Equitable innovation
A “quintuple-helix” model that puts community and environment alongside academia, industry and government.
Decolonial Approaches to Technological Agency
From extraction to exchange.
A two-year international research initiative reshaping how computing-education spaces share knowledge, value and technological agency — across southern and eastern Africa and China.
Partner institutions
6
across 6 countriesISL programme modules
10
10 weeksComputational traditions
12
attributedRenewable-powered
100%
green-certified hostThe research
Computing education, on community terms.
We study how university–makerspace–incubator spaces can build sustainable, non-extractive models of value exchange — and we test those ideas in real environmental-monitoring technology with partner communities.
The DATA ISL programme
A 10-week, hands-on sensors & LoRaWAN programme — the Innovation Systems Lab, co-designed with the Wits Innovation Centre (WIC).
Attribution, not appropriation
Twelve computational traditions inform the design language — every one credited, none extracted.
In collaboration with
University of LeedsUniversity of the Witwatersrand
Funded by
Horizons
Join the DATA network.
Partners across Fort Hare, Botswana, Southwest Jiaotong, Zambia, Dar es Salaam and Namibia UST — with shared resources, tutorials and the full ISL course.