AJIC Issue 20, 2017

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The Issue of 20 The African Journal of Information and Communication includes a Focus Section on Cybersecurity featuring three articles: a survey of South African cybersecurity policy, an examination of South African cyber-incidents, and an evaluation of the dynamics of cyber awareness at a private tertiary educational institution.

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    Regulatory Imperatives for the Future of SADC’s “Digital Complexity Ecosystem”
    (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2017-12-23) Abrahams, Lucienne
    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 approach, grounded in the field of complexity science – and in particular the study of complex adaptive systems (CASs) – is used to illuminate the sources of uncertainty, unpredictability and discontinuity currently present in the SADC digital sphere. Drawing on examples from three regulatory areas, namely mobile financial services, Internet of Things (IoT) network and services markets, and e-health services, the article argues that SADC regulatory bodies will themselves need to adopt highly adaptive, nonlinear approaches if they are to successfully regulate activities in the digital ecosystem moving forward. Based on the findings, recommendations are made on SADC regional regulatory agendas and, at national levels, matters of concurrent jurisdiction.
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