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

Doi: 10.23962/10539/19251

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• AJIC Issue 10, 2009/2010

  Thematic Issue: Scholarly Communication and Opening Access to Knowledge
• AJIC Issue 11, 2010/2011

  Non-thematic issue
• AJIC Issue 12, 2012

  Thematic Issue: Perspective on a Decade of e-Government in Africa
• AJIC Issue 13, 2013

  Thematic Issue: Leadership in the Electronic Age: A Broad Inter-Disciplinary Practice
• AJIC Issue 14, 2015

  Thematic Issue: Economic Regulation and Regulatory Performance in the Electronic Communications Sector
• AJIC Issue 15, 2015

  Thematic Issue: Informatics and ICT for Development
• AJIC Issue 16, 2015

  Thematic Issue: African Intersections between Intellectual Property Rights and Knowledge Access
• AJIC Issue 17, 2016

  Thematic Issue: Economic Regulation, Regulatory Performance and Universal Access in the Electronic Communications Sector
• AJIC Issue 18, 2016

  Thematic Issue: Informatics and Digital Transformations
• AJIC Issue 19, 2016

  Thematic Issue: Knowledge Governance for Development
• SAJIC Issue 1, 2000

  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
• SAJIC Issue 2, 2001

  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
• SAJIC Issue 3, 2002

  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 ...
• SAJIC Issue 4, 2003

  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
• SAJIC Issue 5, 2004

  Non-thematic issue: Includes articles on ICT for development, universal access, ICT rankings of African countries, media policy and convergence, ICT regulation in Kenya
• SAJIC Issue 6, 2005

  Non-thematic issue: Includes articles on universal access, broadband deployment, regulatory challenges of convergence, educational informatics
• SAJIC Issue 7, 2006

  Thematic Issue: Intellectual Property Rights and Creating an African Digital Information Commons
• SAJIC Issue 8, 2007

  Thematic Issue: Broadband Development in South Africa and Belgium
• SAJIC Issue 9, 2008

  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