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Aug 01

In: Blog
By: African Academic Network on Internet Policy
Date: 2019-08-01
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Blockchain and IP: Exploring The Two Sides Of The Coin

By: Faith Obafemi: Be it in hype or substance, blockchain is a phenomenon everyone is learning to become familiar with as heralding the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution. Beyond the financial services industry, enthusiasts of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) are adopting blockchain for v...

Jul 22

In: Blog
By: African Academic Network on Internet Policy
Date: 2019-07-22
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Navigating the tide of anonymity online: building a responsible use of the internet

The internet has evolved to be a decentralised primary place of refuge for many of its growing billions of users. Using this medium, users can be whoever or whatever they want to be and to an extent, exercise a degree of control over their personal information made available to the public. This atti...

Jul 22

In: Blog
By: African Academic Network on Internet Policy
Date: 2019-07-22
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Universal Acceptance – Making New Internet Domains Work for Everyone

Since 2006 the Domain Name System (DNS) has expanded dramatically, not only fueling competition, choice and innovation, but truly enabling a multi-lingual Internet. There are now more than a 1,500 top-level domains (TLDs), many of which are longer than the traditional two- and three character (e.g. ...

May 01

In: Blog
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

In: Blog
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

In: Blog
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

In: Blog
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

In: Blog
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

In: Blog
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...

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