cover image: PAPER SERIES: NO. 15 — MAY 2015 - Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience in East Africa

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PAPER SERIES: NO. 15 — MAY 2015 - Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience in East Africa

9 Jul 2015

He is a member of the Programme in Comparative Media The Global Commission on Internet Governance was Law and Policy, a research associate of the Oxford established in January 2014 to articulate and advance a Internet Institute as well as an associate of the Centre strategic vision for the future of Internet governance. [...] These concepts, rather than adding security in East Africa and highlighting some fragilities to the already abundant jargon in this area, are simply and contradictions of the measures developed to date, meant to encourage analysts to pay greater attention to how focuses on the specific challenges that have followed the technical, social and political interact in unique ways the contours of East Af. [...] in Africa, has also raised concerns that in the charged The paper begins by clarifying the contours of cyber political climate characterizing many countries on the security and cyber resilience in Africa and then continent, the heightened emphasis on security and concentrates on the three case studies of Kenya, Ethiopia state-led responses may impact free speech and privacy and Somalia, focusing o. [...] or infrastructures that are purported to be attacked or to be the source of attacks, eroding the constitutional right to Given cases of fraud and of incitement to violence privacy of users by leaving interpretation of their rights at through ICTs that have occurred in Kenya, and given the the mercy of intelligence officers (Yilma 2014). [...] Shaped in the guise of the US NSA, the INSA Watch to denounce the law and its application as “deeply has taken on the responsibility of “protecting” the national flawed” (Human Rights Watch 2013).
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