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May 01

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By: African Academic Network on Internet Policy
Date: 2019-05-01
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A PROBE INTO THE EXPENSIVE COST MOBILE DATA NIGERIA?

By Ilamosi Ekenimoh In Data We Trust In the 21st century, data is more than king. It’s more of a totalitarian dictator that controls every aspect of modern life; whether informational data or mobile data. And yet in Nigeria, it is devastating and not uncommon to find both sorely lacking. Informati...

Mar 23

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By: Chukwuyere Izuogu
Date: 2019-03-23
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A COMMENTARY ON THE NET-NEUTRALITY PROVISIONS OF THE DRAFT INTERNET INDUSTRY CODE OF PRACTICE

Net-neutrality, the foundation of an open internet seems to be a very topical telecommunications policy issue for several national governments. In the European Union (EU), the European Commission (EC) in April 2019 will present to the European Parliament, its report of a study aimed at collecting in...

Mar 20

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By: African Academic Network on Internet Policy
Date: 2019-03-20
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THE AFRICA CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENT AND CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFER: MAXIMISING THE TRADE DEAL IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL ECONOMY

By: Oloyede Ridwan Introduction “Data fuels the commercial activity of our digital world.” Increasingly, more businesses are transitioning and harnessing the power of the internet and technology and as a result of this, trade needs a vast amount of free moving and stream of personal data to opti...

Feb 22

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By: African Academic Network on Internet Policy
Date: 2019-02-22
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The bigger picture : Assessing Zimbabwe’s internet blockade

As African citizens become progressively aware of their rights, more will take to the streets to demand that their leaders meet their needs. Civil disobedience is a tool that some governments on the continent are increasingly realising can be fuelled and sustained by the internet, and this has seen ...

Feb 22

In: Blog
By: African Academic Network on Internet Policy
Date: 2019-02-22
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Internet Shutdown in Nigeria – A Possibility?

By Chuks Okoriekwe & Caleb Ogundele Introduction As Nigeria heads to the polls in what has been described as one of the keenly contested elections, which were unceremoniously postponed for a week by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), there have been rumours of a possible Inter...

Jan 30

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By: African Academic Network on Internet Policy
Date: 2019-01-30
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The Algorithms of Oppressions in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Joshua Akintayo and Emeka Thaddues Njoku The internet is a vital part of human innovation and freedom, as well as a tool of oppression, chaos, propaganda, and suffering. It can be either positive or negative disruptive force, depending mainly on where the control resides. Recognising the potentia...

Jan 07

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By: African Academic Network on Internet Policy
Date: 2019-01-07
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Crypto-economy: what to look out for

By JOHN WALUBENGO I always hesitate talking about crypto-currencies and their economy because they always take away the thunder from the more important benefits of blockchain technologies. However, in recent months, Kenya has become flooded with many projects launching their own version of crypto-co...

Jan 04

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By: African Academic Network on Internet Policy
Date: 2019-01-04
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IoT in Africa: Urgent Regulation Required

By: Tomslin Samme-Nlar Globally, people are connecting more and more “things” to the Internet. Devices that were traditionally offline or dumb like refrigerators, cars, watches, home cameras, air condition, door locks, agriculture monitoring devices, etcetera, are now being connected to the Inte...

Jan 03

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By: African Academic Network on Internet Policy
Date: 2019-01-03
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Better algorithms and open data frameworks needed for inclusive and diverse online content

By: Arthur Gwagwa Introduction Due to its unprecedented ability to continually learn from collected data, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming the publication of online content, for better or for worse. Today, the search engine algorithm decides the results of our searches (Nai...

Jan 02

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By: African Academic Network on Internet Policy
Date: 2019-01-02
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M-Pesa Mobile Money:a critical resource that should never fail

By JOHN WALUBENGO I have written extensively about the implications of the dominance of Safaricom over the Kenyan economy and its implication as a potential single point of failure. To be fair, the M-Pesa service has only failed twice or thrice in its 10-year history and that should be com...

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