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Africa's information revolution : implications for crime, policing, and citizen security / by Steven Livingston.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Livingston, Steven (Writer on public affairs), author.
- Series:
- Africa Center for Strategic Studies research paper ; no. 5.
- Africa Center for Strategic Studies research paper ; no. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime prevention--Technological innovations--Africa.
- Crime prevention.
- Police--Technological innovations--Africa.
- Police.
- Information technology--Social aspects--Africa.
- Information technology.
- Communication--Technological innovations--Social aspects--Africa.
- Communication.
- Communication--Technological innovations--Social aspects.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Africa.
- Genre:
- Online resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iii, 51 pages) : color illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Africa Center for Strategic Studies, 2013.
- Summary:
- Violent crime represents a daily threat to millions of Africans. With urban populations expected to double in the next 20 years, adding to already sprawling slums, the security problem in urban areas is likely to grow worse. Contributing to this quandary are high levels of corruption within and distrust of many African police forces. At times, criminal gangs fill the resulting security vacuum. Paralleling these developments has been the explosion of information and communications technologies (ICTs). From crowdsourcing community input on crime hotspots to raising the effectiveness and accountability of weak police forces, the ICT boom has the potential to reduce crime and corruption. In this paper, Steven Livingston examines the applications and impacts of ICTs on combating crime and raising police accountability in Africa, how it has helped and reasons when it hasn't.
- Contents:
- Executive summary
- Crime and stability in Africa
- ICT's role in fighting crime in Africa
- Recommendations
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- About the author.
- Notes:
- "November 2013."
- "A research paper from the Africa Center for Strategic Studies"--PDF cover page
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-48).
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (ACSS, viewed October 30, 2013).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Livingston, Steven (Writer on public affairs). Africa's information revolution
- OCLC:
- 861754586
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