Department of Information Technology Cape Peninsula University of Technology Cape Town,
South Africa

Dr. Retha De La Harpe is the acting Head of the IT Department in the Faculty of Informatics and Design at Cape Peninsula University of Technology. She earned both a bachelor’s degree in Informatics and a master’s degree from Rand Afrikaans University. She earned D.Tech (IT) qualification at Cape Peninsula University of Technology in 2009.  She is the South African Coordinator of the Informatics Development for Health in Africa (INDEHELA) international research network and was a National Research Fund grant holder for four years. She is author and co-author of several research funding proposals—including the South Africa Finland Partnership. Her main research interest concerns data quality implications in both business and healthcare contexts.