Content Areas

AJIC is intended as both a rigorous academic journal and a practical medium to inform actors and decision-makers in government, industry and civil society. AJIC publishes submissions relevant to understanding policy, law, regulation, practice and markets in Africa—or in the broader Global South with relevance to Africa, or at international/global level with relevance to Africa—linked to one or more of the following content areas:

  • digital technologies: digital platforms; electronic networks; telecommunications; digital hardware; digital devices; mobile technologies; software; applications (apps); blockchain; cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence (AI) tools and techniques; information systems; automation; robotics; mechatronics; educational technologies; health technologies; technical standards; digital access, adoption and use; information and communication technology (ICT); ICT for development (ICT4D); disruptive technologies; digital technologies and achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • internet: internet access, adoption, and use; internet/online applications; world wide web; cloud services; internet of things (IoT); internet of people (IoP); internet governance
  • cybersecurity: cyber vulnerability; cyber resilience; cyber incident response teams; cybersecurity skills; policy and regulation for cybersecurity; cybersecurity governance
  • digital economy: digital innovation; digital transformation of institutions and economic sectors; digital skills and capabilities; tech hubs and digital innovation hubs; maker movement; makerspaces; digital services (commerce, government, health, education, advertising, marketing, public relations, postal, fintech, insurtech); policy and regulation for the digital economy; digital governance
  • media and creative industries: broadcasting (radio, television); print media; audio and audio-visual content services (AAVCS); film; video; music; digital arts; online media; social media; digital broadcasting; digital audio broadcasting (DAB); digital terrestrial television (DTT); community media; local/regional media; private/commercial media; public service broadcasting (PSB); state media; media freedom; freedom of expression; media governance; media and creative industry funding; media training and literacy; media monitoring; journalism; news; misinformation; disinformation
  • information and data: information science; data science; computer science; information systems; big data; quantum computing; personal data; personal information; personally identifiable information (PII); data privacy; data governance; data protection; access to information; human–computer interaction (HCI); artificial intelligence (AI); machine learning; generative AI; responsible AI; ethical AI; natural language processing (NLP); natural language generation (NLG); large language models (LLMs); small language models (SLMs); multilingual machine translation (MMT); African language resources; African language technologies
  • science, technology and innovation (STI): digitalisation and virtualisation in research and development (R&D); digital research infrastructure; design science research; scaling; commercialisation; technology transfer; intellectual (IP) property rights; digital sequence information (DSI); licensing; innovation and entrepreneurship; social innovation; open innovation; peer production; user innovation; informal innovation; informal-sector innovation; open science; free and open source software (FOSS); scholarly communication; open access publishing; open educational resources (OERs); science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM); science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics, innovation and entrepreneurship (STEAMIE)
  • knowledge governance: knowledge management; intellectual (IP) property rights; Indigenous knowledge (IK); traditional knowledge (TK); climate change adaptation/mitigation technologies; access and benefit sharing (ABS); access to knowledge (A2K); knowledge commons; patent pools
  • social capital: networking; collaboration; communities of practice (CoPs); social network analysis (SNA)
  • linguistics: phonetics; phonology; morphology; syntax; semantics; sociolinguistics; computational linguistics

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