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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  • AJIC Issue 10, 2010  
    Thematic Issue: Scholarly Communication and Opening Access to Knowledge: Articles on publishing development research and measuring value; scholarly communication in Southern African universities; copyright and education in Africa; the digital divide in the Southern African universities; lessons from CODESRIA on open access and open knowledge production; research quality and impact through open access publishing; and IP from publicly funded research.
  • AJIC Issue 11, 2011  
    Articles on international mobile roaming, telecommunications sector competition, e-government support for small businesses, and VoIP congestion control.
  • AJIC Issue 12, 2012  
    Thematic Issue: Perspective on a Decade of e-Government in Africa: Articles on a decade of African e-government research; community participation as a key to e-governance sustainability; telecentre approaches in Cameroon and Kenya; g-government in the Gauteng City-Region; SERVQUAL as a socio-technical approach to measuring e-government service quality; e-government in Zambia; e-government lessons from South Africa; and Egypt’s e-Alexandria project.
  • AJIC Issue 13, 2013  
    Thematic Issue: Leadership in the Electronic Age: A Broad Inter-Disciplinary Practice: Articles on the internet in Rwanda; online visibility of South African knowledge; rational choice, risk and utility in mobile banking; electronic monitoring, observation and compliance for corporate governance; the SenPortal for senior citizens; the ICT public policy network in Swaziland; universal access and service interventions in South Africa; and e-toll roads in South Africa.
  • AJIC Issue 14, 2015  
    Thematic Issue: Economic Regulation and Regulatory Performance in the Electronic Communications Sector: Articles on stakeholder perceptions of Namibia’s communications regulatory framework; economic regulation of the telecommunications sector in South Africa; impact of regulation on competition in telecommunications and piped gas; licensing of communications networks and services in South Africa and the UK; and possible regulatory approaches to television white spaces (TVWS).
  • AJIC Issue 15, 2015  
    Thematic Issue: Informatics and ICT for Development: Articles on mobile readiness at higher education institutions; students’ personal information systems; use of visualisations in postgraduate dissertations; students' software development practices; how Twitter “moods” predict stock exchange index movement; cues for sensemaking of ERPs; platforms for Government-Citizen Interface; internet visibility and cyberbullying; Nigeria’s presence in cyberspace; internet of things deployment in Nigeria; and influence of mobile phone technology on reading behaviour.
  • AJIC Issue 16, 2015  
    Thematic Issue: African Intersections between Intellectual Property Rights and Knowledge Access: Articles on farmers’ and breeders’ rights; licensing of open data; copyright reform for the South African film industry; graffiti and copyright in Egypt and Tunisia; open innovation and knowledge appropriation by African MSEs; technological absorption by Ethiopian MSEs; strategic patenting of pharmaceutical inventions; the human rights dimension in African IP policymaking; and prospects for open licensing of Ethiopian knowledge materials.
  • AJIC Issue 17, 2016  
    Thematic Issue: Economic Regulation, Regulatory Performance and Universal Access in the Electronic Communications Sector: Articles on dynamics of mobile payments markets in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe; competition in mobile financial services in Kenya and Tanzania; regulation of mobile credit in Kenya and Tanzania; regulation of mobile money in Uganda; a case study of Capitec in South Africa; telecommunication access in rural Nigeria; telecommunication policy and practice in China and Africa; and the impact of the call termination rate reduction in South Africa.
  • AJIC Issue 18, 2016  
    Thematic Issue: Informatics and Digital Transformations: Articles on gamification, biodiversity informatics, online social capital, development informatics research, technology in primary education. reproductive health information, performance analysis of bit rate video streaming, and cyber warfare research.
  • AJIC Issue 19, 2016  
    Thematic Issue: Knowledge Governance for Development: Articles on utility model protection in Kenya; a living lab approach to development of an ICT4D solution; policy support for Ethiopia’s creative industries; potential for open data in South African environmental management; MOOCs as “semicommons”; IP benefit-sharing in employment situations in Ghana; geographical indications (GIs) and agricultural knowledge governance in East and Southern Africa; copyright, and photographs or videos of public art, in South Africa; technology transfer for climate change mitigation in Kenya; and IP cooperation in Africa.