Internet Diffusion and Government Intervention: The Parody of Sustainable Development in Africa.
This paper argues that the current attacks on Internet access in terms of legal constraints, political intimation, Internet shutdown, unlawful arrest of Internet users, and the purposeful disruption of Internet services by government agents will become more pronounced unless African nations technolo...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Pan African Studies Vol. 10; no. 10; pp. 11 - 29 |
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