The University of South Africa is destined to be the place where great futures begin, judging by the success of the Department of Information Science s annual Information Science Week held from 10 to 14 July 2000. During the five-day event, aimed at information science students and professionals, the students held a symposium and participated in some basic computer skills training. Prof de Beer mentioned that the core business of the University was to control, work with and experience knowledge.
Information is knowledge in action and a great future can only begin where knowledge is at issue.
This campus can be a place where great futures begin. He added that the department faced the challenge of finding meaningful information which would open doors into the future. The more information we have, the less meaning we find. Addressing an Information Science Day conference, guest speaker Dr Errol Tyobeka, chief director of public science and liaison at the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, said we were living in a time of rapid changes in science and technology. Dr Tabaci said information science would shape our society more than ever as we moved into the 21st century.