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The special issue seeks to explore and present a distinctive African perspective on how existing social theories and information security models can assist in the identification, causation, and treatment of cyber crime. This issue aims at disseminating research output on the extent to which socio-economic and political factors, such as but not limited to poverty, unemployment, and corrupt practices in government, promote cyber crime in Africa. We also seek articles on possible best practices and policies that can be employed to curb cyber crime on the continent.
While encouraging first rate academic papers, we are also open to IT practitioner case studies that reflect or report experiences of cyber crime and its varied manifestations. Submissions should seek to cover the following:
- Problem identification including demography of criminals and their victims;
- State of the art and measures to combat cyber crime in Africa;
- Effects of cyber crime on consumer trust in online transactions in Africa, from both empirical and conceptual perspectives
- Effectiveness of available Information Security models and applications for controlling cyber crime;
- Implications of increase in access to web-based facilities, ubiquitous computing, and ICT penetration for Cyber crime;
- Review of national and international policies on cyber crime and proposals for prevention;
- Relevance of available social theories on causes and prevention of cyber crime, from both empirical and conceptual perspectives; and
- Case studies on the implications of cyber crime on productivity and information security in organizations.
Submissions- Papers should not normally exceed 15 Journal pages (about 8000 words including references, tables and figures).
- Project Case studies or Experiences (up to 5000 words/ 8 pages)
- Academic Research and Conceptual papers (from 7000 to 8000 words/ 15 pages)
- Cross-disciplinary studies and cross-national studies that make significant contributions to theory building and practice are particularly welcome.
- Authors should follow the AJIS Submissions Checklist and the AJIS Paper Submission Template at http://ajisonline.com/ (all papers which fail to use the submission template and checklist will be rejected without review).
- Papaers should be submitted through the AJIS online paper submission system at http://ajis.icitd.org/index.php/journal/information/authors (Select the Special Issue on Cyber Crime in Africa during submission).
- Reference citations should follow the APA style. Please refer to the table of examples in the following link: http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/about/instruct/apastyle.html.
Important Dates- Papers may be submitted to this special issue any time before May 1, 2010 extended to June 30, 2010.
- Notification of Acceptance – July 15, 2010
- Final Submissions of Camera-Ready Papers – August 1, 2010
- Publication Date – September 15, 2010
Guest Editors for the Special Issue- Longe Olumide, ICITD, Southern University, USA,
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- Onifade O.F. Williams, LORIA, Nancy2 Universitie, Paris France,
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- Chiemeke, S. Stella, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria,
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- Folajimi Yetunde, CILaboratory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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Coordinating EditorsRichard Boateng, ICITD, Southern University, USA
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- John Effah, Salford University, UK
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Cyber crime in Africa
