Stellenbosch University (SU) and The Hague Centre of Strategic Studies (HCSS) have joined forces to launch South Africa’s first International Cyber Security School in 2024 – a first for Southern Africa.
This initiative, driven by Prof Bruce Watson, Chair of the Centre for AI Research (CAIR) and Chair for Computational Thinking at the School for Data Science and Computational Thinking at SU, and Noëlle van der Waag-Cowling, also from CAIR, in collaboration with the HCSS and the Netherlands government, will bring together experts, institutions, and the private sector from both the Netherlands and South Africa to deliver a Cyber Security Summer School starting in March 2024.
Prof Wim de Villiers, SU Rector and Vice-Chancellor and the SU team welcomed Dr Michel Rademaker of HCSS; Ms Hélène Rekkers, Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Cape Town, and Mr Joost Bunk, First Secretary at the Netherlands Embassy to the launch of the South Africa-Netherlands Cyber Security School.