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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
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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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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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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-12-07)
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-12-07)
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-12-07)Intellectual property (IP) policy is an important contributor to economic growth and human development. However, international commitments harmonised in IP treaties often exist in tension with local needs for flexibility. ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-12-07)This article examines the extent to which the provisions of Nigeria’s draft Copyright Bill promote access to teaching and learning materials (TLMs), with such access framed as an important public interest goal. The article ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-12-07)This article provides findings from a baseline study on mobile phone use by smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe. The study investigated use of mobile phones by 58 farming households in a village in Zimbabwe’s Midlands Province. ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-12-07)This article provides findings from a study of innovation and knowledge management practices in two informal-sector micro and small enterprise (MSE) clusters in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa: a handloom-weaving cluster ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-12-07)Domestic revenue collection through taxation is still below its potential in many Sub- Saharan African countries. In an attempt to boost their tax revenues, many national governments have deployed electronic fiscal devices ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-11-23)
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-11-23)
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-11-23)Kenya has this year enacted the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act, 2018. This article reviews the Act from the perspective of internet intermediaries, with a view to establishing the impact the Act is expected to have ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-11-23)Increased mobile penetration in Africa offers great potential to accelerate financial inclusion through increased adoption of mobile banking by people at the base of the pyramid (BOP) on the continent. This article provides ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-11-23)Scratch programming was designed with the aim of helping students to develop their logical thinking skills as well as enhancing their problem-solving capabilities, without having the technical distractions associated with ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-11-23)This article describes and analyses data collection challenges encountered in the course of research into the performance of Zimbabwe’s Parliamentary Constituency Information Centres (PCICs). During collection of data on ...
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(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-11-23)The research described in this article used the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm as an underlying theoretical framework to explore the relationship between enterprise architecture (EA) maturity and associated business ...
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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 ...