MICT Sector Success Stories

MICT SETA 4IR Centre of Excellence At Durban University of Technology

The MICT SETA has provided funding to establish and sustain a Centre of Excellence for 4IR Postgraduate student training at Durban University of Technology. Twenty (20) postgraduate students have been afforded bursaries to accelerate the enormous demand for digital and smart-technology based industries in South Africa.

The Centre of Excellence boasts state-of-the-art equipment and adorns high-tech laboratories for IoT and Robotics. In addition, there are fully equipped computer laboratories to support postgraduate research in IoT, drone-based computing systems, robotics programming, and computing networks.

The SETA plans to establish Centres of Excellence across South African tertiary institutions that are at the cusp of innovations and are developing systems to be labour ready for the modern economy.