The Southern African Journal of Information and Communication Vol 2 No 1, 2001

The Southern African Journal of Information and Communication is produced annually by the LINK Centre in order to encourage debate in the area of policy, regulation, management and development of broadcasting, telecommunications and information technology in Southern Africa.

The second edition of the Journal is again non-thematic, highlighting a range of topical and developmental issues from e-commerce and surveillance to institutional reform and universal access. Articles include:

		Towards Electronic Commerce in Africa: A perspective from three country studies - Philip Esselaar & Jonathan Miller The Collision of Regulatory Convergence and Divergence: Updating policies of surveillance and information technology - Ian Hosein Experimenting with Institutional Arrangements for Communications Policy and Regulation: The case of telecommunications and broadcasting in South Africa - Alison Gillwald Reviewing Universal Access in South Africa - Peter Benjamin Convergence, Digitisation and New Technologies: Towards the Next Generation Network - Hu Hanrahan The Analyst, the Psychiatrist, the Soothsayer and the Handicapped: Africa and Globalisation - Joseph O Okpaku Sr (Book review)
When Cultural Content and Information Technology Converge - Guy Berger (Briefs)