Publications

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...