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 does not impose author processing charges. AJIC's predecessor, The Southern African Journal of Information and Communication (SAJIC), was published from 2000 to 2008, before becoming AJIC in 2010.

Corresponding Editor: Lucienne Abrahams. AJIC Submissions

ISSN: 2077-7213 (online version)

ISSN: 2077-7205 (print version)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23962/10539/19251

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    A word embedding trained on South African news data
    (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2022-12-23) Mafunda, Martin Canaan; Schuld, Maria; Durrheim, Kevin; Mazibuko, Sindisiwe
    This article presents results from a study that developed and tested a word embedding trained on a dataset of South African news articles. A word embedding is an algorithm-generated word representation that can be used to analyse the corpus of words that the embedding is trained on. The embedding on which this article is based was generated using the Word2Vec algorithm, which was trained on a dataset of 1.3 million African news articles published between January 2018 and March 2021, containing a vocabulary of approximately 124,000 unique words. The efficacy of this Word2Vec South African news embedding was then tested, and compared to the efficacy provided by the globally used GloVe algorithm. The testing of the local Word2Vec embedding showed that it performed well, with similar efficacy to that provided by GloVe. The South African news word embedding generated by this study is freely available for public use.
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    Access to Africa’s Knowledge: Publishing Development Research and Measuring Value
    (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2010-02-15) Gray, Eve
    This paper reviews, critically, the discourse of research publication policy and the directives of the regional and global organisations that advise African countries with respect to their relevance to African scholarly communication. What emerges is a readiness to use the concepts and language of the public good, making claims for the power of technology to resolve issues of African development. However, when it comes to implementing scholarly publication policies, this vision of technological power and development-focused scientific output is undermined by a reversion to a conservative research culture that relies on competitive systems for valuing and accrediting scholarship, predicated upon the systems and values managed by powerful global commercial publishing consortia. The result is that the policies put in place to advance African research effectively act as an impediment to ambitions for a revival of a form of scholarship that could drive continental growth. While open access publishing models offer solutions to the marginalisation of African research, the paper argues that what is also needed is a re-evaluation of the values that underpin the recognition of scholarly publishing, to better align with the continent’s articulated research goals.
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    Adoption of Electronic Fiscal Devices (EFDs) for Value-Added Tax (VAT) Collection in Kenya and Tanzania: A Systematic Review
    (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-12-07) Eilu, Emmanuel
    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 (EFDs) to improve value-added tax (VAT) collection. However, there is evidence indicating that the deployment of EFDs in some African countries has encountered substantial challenges. Using the systematic review method, the research described in this article investigated challenges encountered in adoption of EFDs in Kenya and Tanzania. The review concludes by modelling recommendations, extracted from seven existing studies, in terms of the technology-organisation-environment (TOE) framework (Tornatzky & Fleisher, 1990). This model is an effort to provide a potential guide for successful EFD adoption in East Africa.
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    AJIC Issue 12, 2012 - Full Issue
    (2012-12-15)
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    AJIC Issue 13, 2013 - Full Issue
    (2013-12-15)
    AJIC thematic issue focused on "Leadership in the Electronic Age: A Broad Inter-Disciplinary Practice".
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    AJIC Issue 14, 2015 - Full Issue
    (2015-12-15)
    AJIC thematic issue focused on "Economic Regulation and Regulatory Performance in the Electronic Communications Sector".
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    AJIC Issue 15, 2015 - Full Issue
    (2015-12-15)
    AJIC thematic issue focused on "Informatics and ICT for Development".
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    AJIC Issue 16, 2015 - Full Issue
    (2015-12-15)
    AJIC thematic issue focused on "African Intersections between Intellectual Property Rights and Knowledge Access".
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    AJIC Issue 17, 2016 - Full Issue
    (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2016-12-15)
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    AJIC Issue 17, 2016 - Full Issue - print-on-demand version
    (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2016-12-15)
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    AJIC Issue 18, 2016, Full Issue
    (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2016-11-15)
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    AJIC Issue 18, 2016, Full Issue, Print-on-Demand Version
    (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2016-12-15)
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    AJIC Issue 19, 2016-Full Issue
    (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2016-12-15)
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    AJIC Issue 19, 2016-Full Issue-Print-on-Demand Version
    (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2016-12-15)
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    AJIC Issue 20, 2017-Full Issue
    (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 communication strategy to address violence against children; the potential use of drones in land-mapping; and uncertainties in the legalities of e-commerce transactions.
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    AJIC Issue 20, 2017-Full Issue-Print-on-Demand Version
    (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 communication strategy to address violence against children; the potential use of drones in land-mapping; and uncertainties in the legalities of e-commerce transactions.
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    AJIC Issue 21, 2018-Full Issue
    (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-11-23)
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    AJIC Issue 21, 2018-Full Issue-Print-on-Demand Version
    (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2018-11-23)