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The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC)
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The African Journal of Information and Communication(AJIC) is an academic journal published by the LINK Centre, School of Literature, Language and Media (SLLM), Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Accredited by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), AJIC is an interdisciplinary, open access journal concerned with Africa’s participation in the information society and digital network economy. The journal, which does not impose author processing charges, was founded in 2000 as The South African Journal of Information and Communication (SAJIC), and was then published as the The Southern African Journal of Information and Communication (SAJIC) from 2001 to 2008, before becoming The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC) in 2009. Corresponding Editor: Lucienne Abrahams luciennesa@gmail.com
Collections in this community
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Thematic Issue: Scholarly Communication and Opening Access to Knowledge
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Non-thematic issue
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Thematic Issue: Perspective on a Decade of e-Government in Africa
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Thematic Issue: Leadership in the Electronic Age: A Broad Inter-Disciplinary Practice
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Thematic Issue: Economic Regulation and Regulatory Performance in the Electronic Communications Sector
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Thematic Issue: Informatics and ICT for Development
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Thematic Issue: African Intersections between Intellectual Property Rights and Knowledge Access
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Thematic Issue: Economic Regulation, Regulatory Performance and Universal Access in the Electronic Communications Sector
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Thematic Issue: Informatics and Digital Transformations
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Thematic Issue: Knowledge Governance for Development
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With Focus Section on Cybersecurity
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Non-thematic issue: Includes articles on surveillance law and privacy rights, telecommunications policy and regulation, telecentres, African women in cyberspace, communications in local government development initiatives
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Non-thematic issue: Includes articles on e-commerce in Africa, policies of surveillance, institutional arrangements for communications policy and regulation, universal access, next generation networks
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Non-thematic issue: Includes articles on building network knowledge economies, B2B e-commerce, telecommunications reform and poverty alleviation, evolution of telecommunications policy reforms, technical and policy advances ...
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Non-thematic issue: Includes articles on spectrum commons, Internet governance, e-services and the VANS sector, rural connectivity, technological learning in African telecoms firms, assessing capabilities for e-government
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Non-thematic issue: Includes articles on ICT for development, universal access, ICT rankings of African countries, media policy and convergence, ICT regulation in Kenya
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Non-thematic issue: Includes articles on universal access, broadband deployment, regulatory challenges of convergence, educational informatics
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Thematic Issue: Intellectual Property Rights and Creating an African Digital Information Commons
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Thematic Issue: Broadband Development in South Africa and Belgium
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Non-thematic issue: Includes articles on infrastructure industry reforms, mobile access and usage, media discourse analysis of MXit, computer networks in higher education, African regulatory authority benchmarking
Recent Submissions
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(2017-12-23)This AJIC Issue 20 provides a three-article Focus Section on Cybersecurity, and articles and thematic reports on: the future of SADC digital economy regulation; development of a first aid smartphone app; development of a ...
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(2017-12-23)This AJIC Issue 20 provides a three-article Focus Section on Cybersecurity, and articles and thematic reports on: the future of SADC digital economy regulation; development of a first aid smartphone app; development of a ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2017-12-23)This article uses a “digital complexity ecosystem” framing to delineate the challenges facing regulation of the digital economy in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. The digital complexity ecosystem ...
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(2017-12-23)In the sub-Saharan African context, there is an enormous shortage of healthcare workers, causing communities to experience major deficiencies in basic healthcare. The improvement of basic emergency healthcare can alleviate ...
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(2017-12-23)Research on violence against children, though extensive, has not been effectively deployed for the development and tailoring of communication efforts aimed at specific national, local and cultural contexts within which ...
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(2017-12-23)This introduction to the AJIC Focus Section on Cybersecurity provides the context for the section, introduces the three articles, and establishes the importance of ongoing emperical research in support of policy and ...
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(2017-12-23)Cybersecurity is a growing concern for governments, with the push for universal access to the Internet, the increasing ubiquity of social networks and the growing reliance on digital government service, and given a growing ...
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(2017-12-23)Cybersecurity concerns are present in all nations, but the exact nature of the threats differs depending on the country and/or region. Therefore there is a need to assess the threats and impacts for specific countries. ...
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(2017-12-23)Internet-based attacks have become prevalent and are expected to increase as technology ubiquity increases. Consequently, cybersecurity has emerged as an essential concept in everyday life. Cybersecurity awareness (CSA) ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2016-12-15)
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2016-11-15)
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2016-12-15)This thematic introduction briefly discusses the importance of pursuing research in informatics and digital transformations in Africa.
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2016-11-15)
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2016-12-15)
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2016-12-15)This thematic report sets out the case for why studies in cyber security and cyber conflict need to be prominent in the African digital transformation research agenda.
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2016-12-15)This article presents a study of the reproductive health information needs and access practices of rural women in Nsukka Cultural Zone, Enugu State, South East Nigeria. Three hundred and fifty women from 14 rural Nsukka ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2016-12-15)
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2016-12-15)