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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 ...

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