Moahi takes over at UB
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | Wednesday February 22, 2017 17:31
Moahi will be acting in the position until a substantive VC has been found, Mmegi has learnt.
“The two professors who had been recommended by the UB council are said to have been rejected on the basis that they were not fit for the post. The two are Professors Bojosi Otlhogile and John Melamu,” a source said.
The Minister of Tertiary Education, Research, Sience and Technology, Dr Alfred Madigele confirmed the appointment. Moahi takes over following the resignation of Professor Thabo Fako on Sunday. “The process of the appointment of the VC will be done as soon as the council starts meeting. The acting VC will start her new duty today (Tuesday). All important stakeholders will meet to map the way forward on how to put in place important things for UB administration,” Madigele said yesterday in an interview.
Moahi is the Associate Professor and Dean in the Faculty of Humanities. Prior to that, she was head of the Department of Library and Information Studies, a position she held for six years. As head of the Department of Library and Information Studies, she oversaw the move away from year-long subject system to semesterisation and the introduction of the information systems component of the department’s offerings.
Moahi has researched and written extensively on the use of ICTs in information management and librarianship and promotion and protection of indigenous knowledge, as well as health informatics.
Moahi has served in many university-wide committees, which included the Computer Steering Committee, Library Committee, Senate, and the UB Council.
She has served as Chair of the Ad Hoc Task Force on student academic Dishonesty at UB – a task force set up by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs) to explore the extent of academic dishonesty amongst students and make recommendations on ways to address it.
She has also represented the University in her professional service by participating in a number of initiatives aimed at encouraging the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) for development such as the development of an ICT policy for Botswana (MAITLAMO) in 2004. She was co-chair of the Health Commission in the 2nd World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR) conference that took place in Gaborone in 2005. She participated in a telemedicine feasibility study that was spearheaded by the Botswana Technology Centre (BOTEC) in 2005/2006.
Together with information professionals at UB, she helped found the Children’s Information Trust in 2004, which aims to encourage the development of libraries in primary schools in a bid to facilitate the development of information literacy skills of primary school children in Botswana.