I was able to visit two more fascinating universities on the Allen World Tour:  the Department of Information Systems in the Faculty of Commerce, University of Cape Town (UCT); and the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics at the School of Information Technology, Monash University.

At UCT, not only was I able to meet with some of Mark Shuttleworth’s professors, but also ran a session of their Master’s degree seminar.  Most of the student projects were focused on adoption issues in South Africa.  I hope to do some future work with their team on open source adoption.

At Monash, I spent a month as a visiting researcher.  I was interested to learn that the organizational and social informatics group was not only going strong, but in fact had healthier student numbers than any other area of the IT school.  Their group was strong in health care, government, and community informatics.