ICT for Development specialist, Meraka Institute, African Advanced Institute for ICTs, CSIR.
Chris was born and educated in the UK and has been with the CSIR since 1991. He has a degree in Civil Engineering, a Masters degreee in Business Leadership and is a registered Professional Engineer. He has been actively involved in the planning and implementation of major Information Communication Technology projects (ICT) for development for the past 8 years. Significant projects include a rural telehealth project in the Eastern Cape co-funded by the South African government and the World Bank , and the Canadian IDRC funded Sub-Saharan African connectivity project entitled First Mile First Inch..
A key responsibility in his position is to develop a network of research partners throughout the region and this involves regular travel and participation in ICT events and delivering papers at conferences.
Chris is the South African co-ordinator for the European Union FP6 funded project entitled IST – Africa. This project researches e-Adoption activities in South Africa, Mozambique and Tanzania and seeks to develop training modules in eLearning, eGovernment and eHealth.
Chris is a member of the Eastern Cape Telemedicine Steering Committee and the Government Communications Information Systems steering committee.
Awards received for telemedicine include winner in the World Bank Development Marketplace in 2003 and the Stockholm Challenge Award, health category, in 2004.
C Morris, D P Conradie & SJ Jacobs “Using information and communication technologies (ICTs) for deep rural development in South Africa” Communicatio, Volume 29 (1 & 2) 2003.
C Morris “Tele-health: a case study Tsilitwa, Eastern Cape”, African Renaissance Conference, 22 – 24 October 2003. Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
C Morris “Using Outcome Mapping as a Research Methodology” African Evaluation Association Conference, 1 – 4 December 2004. Cape Town, South Africa.
C Morris, A Makan “Comparative study of “first mile” and “first inch” technology in different low density contexts” 2nd African WiFi Summit, 27 – 29 July 2005 Cape Town, South Africa.
Morris C, “eHealth Activities in South Africa”, Networking the Commonwealth for Development, Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth Network of Information Technology for Development (COMNET –IT) November 2005.