Johannes Dewald Roode (July 16, 1940 – Sept 27, 2009) was a South African academic and Professor at the University of Pretoria, specializing in Information Systems research.
In 1988 Roode was appointed to head the new Department of Informatics at the University of Pretoria, while continuing on a part-time basis with consultancy work.
In 2008 Dewald Roode was also honoured by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) with the highest accolade for service, the Silver Core.
To share his insight, Roode exercised an early retirement option from the University of Pretoria in 2001 enabling him to work at different universities, and to devote more time to the high-level training of individuals in the computer industry who had not had the opportunity to receive formal tertiary education.
He published widely on the sociotechno divide in society [3] and more broadly on the Information Systems discipline.