The Platform was developed with a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) framework by the UniversityofWitwatersrand, South Africa within the Africa Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) Consortium comprising of 11 African universities.
Motsepe graduated from the Universityof Swaziland and then became one of the few black law graduates of the Universityof the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, designated whites-only by the apartheid government (he had to apply for an exemption to attend).