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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 published as the The Southern African Journal of Information and Communication (SAJIC) from 2000 to 2008, before becoming The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC) in 2009.
Corresponding Editor: Lucienne Abrahams. Submissions: ajic.submissions@gmail.com
ISSN: 2077-7213 (online version)
ISSN: 2077-7205 (print version)
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
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Non-thematic issue
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Articles on data protection, cybersecurity resilience, a proposed “agricultural data commons”, intellectual property approaches to traditional knowledge, legal treatment of ISPs, and discursive constructions.
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Articles on social media maturity, teachers’ ICT adoption, microenterprises’ ICT use, insurtech, malware detection, and information security incident management.
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Articles on digital terrorism, SMS fraud, machine learning, mHealth, natural language processing, and international telecommunications law and policy.
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Thematic Issue: Collaborative Innovation in African Settings
Recent Submissions
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), 2015-12-15)
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), 2015-12-15)
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), 2015-12-15)
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), 2015-12-15)
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(2020-12-15)Thematic Issue: Collaborative Innovation in African Settings: Articles on artificial intelligence, Indigenous data sovereignty, mobile tech start-ups, tech hubs, makerspaces, and social entrepreneurs.
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(2020-12-15)Thematic Issue: Collaborative Innovation in African Settings: Articles on artificial intelligence, Indigenous data sovereignty, mobile tech start-ups, tech hubs, makerspaces, and social entrepreneurs.
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(2020-12-15)An introduction to the articles in this AJIC Thematic Issue: Collaborative Innovation in African Settings, which features findings from research conducted by members of the Open African Innovation Research (Open AIR) network.
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(2020-12-15)The deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is proliferating on the African continent, but policy responses are still at their early stages. This article provides an overview of the main elements of AI ...
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(2020-12-15)This study explores the current state and dynamics of the global Indigenous data sovereignty movement—the movement pressing for Indigenous peoples to have full control over the collection and governance of data relating ...
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(2020-12-15)This article sets out findings from research into the collaborative modalities present in the innovation practices of mobile tech start-ups in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Drawing on findings from qualitative data collection ...
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(2020-12-15)This study explores innovation modalities at three South African tech hubs: Bandwidth Barn Khayelitsha and Workshop 17 in Cape Town, and the Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct in Johannesburg. The study finds that ...
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(2020-12-15)This article sets out findings from research exploring approaches to innovation at makerspaces in Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco. Based on interviews with individuals involved in makerspaces in each country—seven spaces in ...
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(2020-12-15)This article outlines findings from a study in South Africa and Kenya that explored social entrepreneurs’ use of fabrication laboratories (fab labs), and in particular fab lab 3D printing services, in order to advance their ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2020-06-30)Articles on digital terrorism, SMS fraud, machine learning, mHealth, natural language processing, and international telecommunications law and policy.
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2020-06-30)Articles on digital terrorism, SMS fraud, machine learning, mHealth, natural language processing, and international telecommunications law and policy.
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(2020-06-30)This study uses a systematic review methodology to interpret existing literature on the digital dimensions of contemporary terrorism and counter-terrorism. Using the theory of synergetics as a guiding analytical framework, ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2020-06-30)Fraudulent e-wallet deposit notification SMSes designed to steal money and goods from m-banking users have become pervasive in Namibia. Motivated by an observed lack of mobile applications to protect users from such ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2020-06-30)The usefulness of a uniform resource locator (URL) on the World Wide Web is reliant on the resource being hosted at the same URL in perpetuity. When URLs are altered or removed, this results in the resource, such as an ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2020-06-30)This study examines the factors impacting Tanzanian drug dispensaries’ perceptions of the potential benefits of using a mobile health (mHealth) reporting system. Since 2003, the Government of Tanzania has implemented its ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2020-06-30)This article presents findings from pilot testing of elements of an information extraction (IE) prototype designed to assist legal researchers in engaging with case law databases. The prototype that was piloted seeks to ...