Outside his academic work, Wonga is greatly involved with
Latest Community Work:
Wonga is also the Chairman, Editor, and Founder of Wowo's Club. Wowo’s Club was founded on 24 May 1999 and today it has membership of over 50 members across
Academic:
Served for 4 years at Technikon Witwatersrand (now the University of Johannesburg (UJ)) joining as a Junior Lecturer in 1999 in the Department of Software Development, promoted to Lecturer in 2002.
Served for (and awarded a service a certificate) 5 years at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) joining as a Lecturer in 2003 at the Faculty of Information Communication and Technology (ICT), Department of Enterprise Applications Development (EAD). Teaching:
Lectured first, second, and third year subjects and examined final year projects.
External examiner (2005-2006) for third year students IT projects at
Appointed as a member of the task team (The revision of the Mentorship Policy for the academic environment) by Academic Committee of TUT.
Industry/Research:
Project Boda-Bodas (Project Lead) - The goal of the project is to enable Boda-Boda (Motorcycles Public Transport in East African Countries) customers to use their mobile phones to order and rate Boda-Bodas services. It is envisaged that customer rating of the Boda-Bodas operators will lead to self-regulation of the industry. Current objectives are (i) to investigate potential solutions and/or components that could be used to create an electronic system ordering Boda-Boda Services using Mockup Tools; (ii) to perform benefit analysis decision-making approach to assess whether Boda-Boda electronic system is worth doing;
Innovation working on now: Integrated transport system, called “GET-THERE”, addresses the transport challenges (e.g. severe traffic jams in Johannesburg, SA). GET-THERE focuses on public and private transport to connect business, people and places in a sustainable and cost effective manner.
Project Overture II: The goal of Project Overture II is to deliver a prototype Mobile Business Service Platofrm (MBSP) for Very Small Enterprises (VSEs) in Emerging Economies (EE).
Project: SAP TechEd 2010, Berlin: Main objective of the project was to demonstrate how basic business services for Very Small Enterprises (VSE) are deployed on mobile phones.
Project: Access to Resources (Actor): Main objective of the project was
to investigate and understand the challenges that SMMEs are facing with regards to accessing resources and services to achieve their operational objectives.
Project: Service Engineering for Collaborative Project Execution (SeCPe): Seventh Framework Programme Proposal: Main objective of the project was to increase competition and innovation amongst European Union (EU) enterprises through a highly innovative ICT platform for collaborative project execution.
