Publications

In the weeks leading up to and following Zimbabwe’s disputed 2013 election, Zimbabweans were hit by significant Internet-based attacks. Because the incident was not widely reported, it did not gain traction at all in the Internet Freedom Community. Yet the incident was one of a kind to be document...

  Media sector reform can facilitate Ethiopia’s development agenda. In his inaugural acceptance Speech on April 2, 2018, Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister, Dr. Abiy Ahmed Ali, acknowledged how free flow of information and activities, including through the use of technology can “reverberate”...

It has been years and many Country based, Regional and International IGFs, I wonder as to the extent we have really achieved anything in particular? ICANN also is still trying to see where they sit in all this. How active should ICANN should be or not be. The chicken and egg problem. The problem is ...

It is the year 1991, the world faces a new tendency: Interconnection and a whole world library opens up. Access to nearly everyone. But we had forgotten the realities of phone hacking in the old days. Actually, we did not, we had only watched them in movies. But in the older days it was government [...

It is the year 1991, the world faces a new tendency: Interconnection and a whole world library opens up. Access to nearly everyone. But we had forgotten the realities of phone hacking in the old days. Actually, we did not, we had only watched them in movies. But in the older days it was government [...

By Tomslin Samme-Nlar Lately, the word blockchain is gaining a lot of attention from businesses, investors and governments, especially around how it could transform how we do business today. As the world looks up to Blockchain technology for radical transformations in many industries and sectors, I ...

For the last 50 years the IT department has seen itself rattled all over the place in organisations from small to big ones, from it being substandard departments or just plain desk support to Accounts/financial depts., to being a standalone ones. We still are at the nexus of the whole concept and un...