Surveillance Laws in Africa
Surveillance Laws in Africa - a review of six countries by Tony Roberts, Abrar Mohamed Ali, Mohamed Farahat, Ridwan Oloyede and Grace Mutung’u. Published by the Institute for Development Studies.…
National Infrastructure Plan (NIP) 2050
The government's SA Connect aimed to deliver widespread broadband access to 90% of the country by 2020 but the 2016 targets have not yet been met. The new National Infrastructure…
SA’s Internet Censorship Law
the Films and Publication Act - the Internet censorship law - came into effect on 1 March 2022. The Law gives the Film & Publication Board (the Apartheid era censor)…
The Dialectic of Tech and Society
Contribution to GTI Forum Technology and the Future by Brian Tokar Since the heyday of technological determinism in the 1960s, many authors have written eloquently about how developments in technology are…
Librecast: Decentralised Applications with Multicast
from https://librecast.net/about.html The Librecast Live project contributes to decentralizing the Internet by enabling multicast. Multicast is an important network capability for a secure, decentralized and private by default Next Generation Internet.…
Radio is thriving in South Africa: 80% are tuning in
by Tanja Bosch in the Conversation Almost three decades into democracy, radio is thriving in South Africa. Radio listenership in the country is consistently higher than the global average. And it…
Big ‘Tsek: Surveillance and public space in Johannesburg
Comrade Murray Hunter's 2022 Ruth First Lecture: "Big 'Tsek: Surveillance and public space in Johannesburg" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHEfwSKJcKU
Universal Service Obligations for spectrum to be auctioned
ICASA has published the Universal Service Obligations fo the successful bidders in the upcoming spectrum auction in the Government Gazette of 10 December 2021. According to the Overview (1.7) government…
Digital Profiteers: Who Profits Next from Social Grants
The new frontier of the ‘digital welfare state’ poses new opportunities for corporations to profit from the data gathered from South Africa’s social grant system. This is a threat to…
The Pegasus Precedent: India’s Supreme Court strikes the latest blow on mass surveillance
by Murray Hunter, Alt.Advisory. Introduction Last month, the Supreme Court of India ordered an independent inquiry into whether the state used Pegasus spyware to spy on its citizens. The judgment,…