Mario Marais

Biography

Marais is a CSIR principal researcher in the technology, implementation, monitoring and evaluation research group. Research areas include the role of social capital in information and communications technology for development (ICT4D), systems thinking in evaluation, and the integration of monitoring and evaluation into ICT4D project flow. He does facilitation and problem structuring via soft operations research techniques as well as futures methodologies.

Research Interest

Marais’ research focuses on development, especially the use of information and communications technology for development. Community informatics, systems thinking and decision-making expertise are applied to improve service delivery systems in education, health and rural development.