RIA!
Witwatersrand University, South Africa
Alison Gillwald is Associate Professor and Research Director of the Learning Information Networking and Knowledge (LINK) Centre at the Graduate School of Public and Development Management at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, which she became the first director of in 1999 to fast track policy and regulatory training in ICT in Southern Africa. She is responsible for Research ICT Africa! (RIA!) which aims to fill the ICT policy and regulatory research vacuum that exists on the continent through the development of a research network.
Prior to that she was appointed to the founding Council of the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (SATRA). Prior to that Alison was responsible for establishing the Policy Department at the Independent Broadcasting Authority. She was an advisor to the Independent Media Commission in 1994 for the first democratic elections held in the country.
She served on the South African Minister of Communications’ African Advisors Group to the African Minister’s Oversight Committee, chaired the Digital Broadcasting Advisory Body, and was a founding member of the Steering Committee of the ITU Task Force on Gender Issues. She serves on the board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation, where she chairs the technology committee.
She is founding editor of the Southern African Journal of Information and Communication and is published in the areas of telecommunications and broadcasting policy and regulation, gender and politics more broadly.
With an undergraduate degree in Journalism and an Honours degree in Politics, her Masters focused on communications policy. She worked as a lecturer in journalism and politics for many years and as a journalist on some of South African major newspapers.
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