{"id":2229,"date":"2021-11-05T11:26:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T11:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2021-11-05T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T11:26:57","slug":"audrey-masizana-candidacy-for-codata-executive-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/05\/audrey-masizana-candidacy-for-codata-executive-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Audrey Masizana: Candidacy for CODATA Executive Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the seventh in the series of short statements from candidates in the coming CODATA Elections at the <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/events\/general-assembly\/general-assembly-2021\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">General Assembly to be held on 15-16 November, 2021.<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 Audrey Masizana is a candidate for the CODATA Executive Committee as an Ordinary Member.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><b><i>She was nominated by Botswana.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Audrey-masizana.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2225 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Audrey-masizana.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Audrey-masizana.png 183w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Audrey-masizana-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><\/i>Audrey Masizana is an immediate Head of Department of Computer Science at the University of Botswana. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from UMIST (2004) UK, MSc (Computer Science) (1998), Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing (1997) from Oxford Brookes University UK and BSc (Hon) Mathematics Modelling and Computing (1994)from Kingston University UK. Her professional certifications include\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IBM Data Science Practitioner &#8211; Instructor Certificate. January 2021<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner, December 2020\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ERP Train the Trainer Certificate, SAP University Alliances Issued Dec 2014\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SAP (ESEFA) Train the Trainer Certificate , University of Cape Town Issued Jan 2014<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SAP University Alliances ERP4Schoool Foundation Certification, UCT, Cape Town, 24 July 2013<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has over the years served at national bodies such as the National Cyber Security Strategy Development Committee (2016) and its new Implementation Committee (2021). She is a strong advocate of the adoption of Open Data Open Science Policies and Instruments. She is serving as a Deputy Chair of the National Committee on Open Data Open Science established in 2017 which has inspired current developments such as establishment of National Research and Education Network (NREN). She is very active in professional societies nationally, being a Fellow of Botswana Academy of Sciences (FBAS) and the current Chair of Computer Society of Botswana where she forged collaborations with societies of similar mandates regionally and internationally such as the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audrey is passionate in interdisciplinary post graduate research around <\/span><b><i>Scientific Application of Data for Intelligent Decision Making<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for which she also conducts external examining for other universities. She is a seasoned publisher in conference and journal proceedings across the world for which she also serves in some of the editorial boards. She has made exceptional contributions to the promotion of science and technology by providing leadership in the establishment of fostered local and regional collaborative projects around <\/span><b><i>Hi Performance Computing (HPC) &amp; Data Science Research<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 covering the development and sharing of the compute and data research infrastructure, <\/span><b><i>eHealth Research <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which engages Health Informatics, and <\/span><b><i>Intelligent Systems Research<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which explores applications of Artificial Intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has over the years gained enormous experience in spear heading academic networking platforms amongst chairing Local Organizing Committees of international conferences such as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visualization Technology Africa Conference in 2019, Gaborone, Botswana<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> International Data Week in 2018, Gaborone Botswana<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Association of Science and Technology Africa (IASTED Africa Series)\u00a0 Conference in 2014 and 2016, Gaborone Botswana<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">st<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 3<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> International Conference on Cyber Security and Information Systems ICICIS, 2016 and 2018, Gaborone Botswana<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audrey is a very patriotic and well networked African citizen. Of relevance to CODATA mandate, she has served as a member of the African Technical Advisory Committee which formed part of the first committee that established the African Open Science Platform in 2017. The initiative provided her with an opportunity to contribute to the development of the Africa Open Science Framework designed for continental adoption. She is also one of the innovators of the VizAfrica Network which was established as a spinoff project of the VizAfrica Conference in 2019 which was organized in collaboration with CODATA. It is designed to be a networked body of knowledge and expertise that nurtures a continual conversation on issues around Data Visualization theory, policy, technology and practice in Africa. She is also currently instrumental in promotion and maintaining of CODATA collaborative engagements in Botswana and very passionate to continue playing this role for the consortia within the African landscape, thus contributing towards the expansion and strengthening of the organization\u2019s engagements beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the seventh in the series of short statements from candidates in the coming CODATA Elections at the General Assembly to be held on 15-16 November, 2021.\u00a0 Audrey Masizana is a candidate for the CODATA Executive Committee as an Ordinary Member.\u00a0She was nominated by Botswana. Audrey Masizana is an immediate Head of Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-codata-elections-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}