Prof. Dr. Isabella Venter obtained her Doctoral degree in 2000 from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She held positions at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University and the Business School of Stellenbosch University before joining the Computer Science Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Until April 2017, she acted as Chairperson of the Department and is currently the Chair of the Management Committee of the OpenServe/Aria Technologies Africa Centre of Excellence. Prof. Venter’s research interest is Computer Science Education, Information Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI).