Dr Tinyiko Vivian Dube is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Science at the University of South Africa, where she teaches ‘The Political Economy of Information ’ and ‘Information Technology in Organization and Retrieval’ modules. She began her professional career in 2010 and has served in several roles and responsibilities at the UNISA Library and Information Services, including Information Resources Request Processor, Cataloguer, and Research Data Curator. In this role, she assists researchers across all Colleges of the University of South Africa in managing research data, developing the content of the Unisa Research Data Repository, advocating for and supporting research data management, and overseeing the Unisa Research Data Repository. Her research interests include research data management, Information and Communication Technologies in academic libraries, and online academic library services. Tinyiko holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science.