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The Role of Communications in Key National, Regional, Provincial and Local Government Development Initiatives

Stavrou, Aki (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2000-12-15)

This paper seeks to outline how the lack of a coherent communications input impacts on the implementation of local government development, by scanning existing legislation and seeking to draw upon the myriad of existing ...
Telecommunication Policy and Regulation for Women and Development

Gillwald, Alison (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2000-12-15)

This paper examines the issue of whether or not the needs and interests of the majority of women who live in poverty are likely to be addressed by current legislative and regulatory measures designed to achieve universal ...
Does 'Telecentre' Mean the Centre is Far Away? Telecentre Development in South Africa

Benjamin, Peter (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2000-12-15)

This article questions the role of telecentres as a vehicle for development in developing countries, particularly in South Africa. The organisation of the emerging Information Age is, in the words of Manuel Castells, 'Global ...
'But for the Nicety of Knocking and Requesting a Right of Entry': Surveillance Law and Privacy Rights in South Africa

Cohen, Tracy (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2000-12-15)

As communications tools expand beyond that of the traditional fixed line telephone, so too do the tools for monitoring those communications. Fuelled by dual needs to protect the privacy rights of individuals, as well as ...
Creating an African Women's Cyberspace

Marcelle, Gillian (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2000-12-15)
Book Review: The Analyst, the Psychiatrist, the Soothsayer and the Handicapped: Africa and Globalisation: Challenges of Globalisation: South African Debates with Manuel Castells, edited by Johan Muller, Nico Cloete, and Shireen Badat, 2001

Okpaku, Joseph O. Sr. (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2001-12-15)
Convergence, Digitisation and New Technologies: Towards the Next Generation Network

Hanrahan, Hu (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2001-12-15)

This paper introduces the concept of the Next Generation Network as the vision for convergence between the modern digital Public Switched Telecommunications Network and Internet Protocol Networks. The technological features ...
When Cultural Content and Information Technology Converge

Berger, Guy (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2001-12-15)
Experimenting with Institutional Arrangements for Communications Policy and Regulation: The Case of Telecommunications and Broadcasting in South Africa

Gillwald, Alison (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2001-12-15)

This paper examines the shifting institutional arrangements in South Africa’s telecommunications and broadcasting sectors as it seeks to deal with national transformation at the same time as the relentless economic and ...
Towards Electronic Commerce in Africa: A Perspective from Three Country Studies

Esselaar, Philip; Miller, Jonathan (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2001-12-15)

The challenges of globalisation and the information age are concentrating the minds of all African governments. Many of the issues that need to be addressed are similar but the situation in each country is different, both ...
Reviewing Universal Access in South Africa

Benjamin, Peter (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2001-12-15)

This article reviews the progress towards universal access to telephony and other information projects in South Africa between 1996, when the last Telecommunications Act was passed, and 2000. It draws on the results of the ...
The Collision of Regulatory Convergence and Divergence: Updating Policies of Surveillance and Information Technology

Hosein, Ian (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2001-12-15)

Regulation theory rarely considers the disruptive capacity of technology, nor regulation in the sole interest of government. This paper will investigate the capacity of technology to disrupt regulatory regimes surrounding ...
The Next Step for Telecom Regulation: ICT Convergence Regulation or Multisector Utilities Regulation?

Henten, Anders; Samarajiva, Rohan; Melody, William (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2002-12-15)

This paper critically examines the multiple rationales for telecom, IT, media (ICT) convergence regulation on the one hand, and multisector utility regulation on the other, and the practical questions of implementation ...
Understanding the international ICT and development discourse: Assumptions and implications

Wilson, Merridy (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2002-12-15)

This paper seeks to understand the assumptions underlying the international public ICT and development discourse and the implications of these assumptions for policy makers and development practitioners. The argument is ...
Technical and Policy Advances in Rural Telecommunications

Westerveld, R.; Maitland, C.F. (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2002-12-15)

Providing access to telecommunications services in rural areas continues to challenge policy makers and telecommunication operators alike. The problem is complex and solutions require an understanding of the technical ...
Networking Knowledge for Information Societies: Institutions and Intervention, edited by Robin Mansell, Rohan Samarajiva and Amy Mahan, 2002: Book review.

Currie, William (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2002-12-15)
The Triumph and Tragedy of Human Capital: Foundation Resource for Building Network Knowledge Economies

Melody, William H. (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2002-12-15)

A fundamental transformation to a global information and knowledge economy is underway, driven by dramatic changes in technologies, markets and government policies - the combination of pervasive applications of information ...
Evolution of Telecommunications Policy Reforms in East Africa: Setting New Policy Strategies to Anchor Benefits of Policy Reform

Mureithi, Muriuki (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2002-12-15)

This paper is a strategic evaluation of telecommunications policy reform over a ten-year period 1993-2002. The focus of the paper is the three countries of East Africa - Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The evaluation is framed ...
Telecom Reform and Poverty Alleviation in Kenya

Kane, Sean (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2002-12-15)

Eradicating poverty is perhaps the single most important global development challenge. As rural areas are typically home to the majority of the poor in developing countries, the success of poverty alleviation interventions ...
The Status of B2B E-Commerce in the South African Manufacturing Sector: Evolutionary or Revolutionary?

Moodley, Sagren (LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2002-12-15)

While B2B e-commerce represents a major technological innovation and marks a significant development in organisational interconnectivity (i.e., the ability to network both internally and externally), it is premature to ...

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