La régulation des usages des TIC en Côte d’Ivoire : entre identification et craintes de profilage des populations

The desire of many African states to curb diversions in the use of digital technologies (scams, Internet fraud) has sparked making initiatives to regulate activities in cyberspace. To this end, one of the major steps taken in these countries since at least 2012 has been the identification of subscri...

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Main Authors: Jean-Jacques Maomra BOGUI, N’Guessan Julien ATCHOUA
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Language:fra
Published: Association de Recherche en Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication 2019-05-01
Series:Tic & Société
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ticetsociete/1983
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description The desire of many African states to curb diversions in the use of digital technologies (scams, Internet fraud) has sparked making initiatives to regulate activities in cyberspace. To this end, one of the major steps taken in these countries since at least 2012 has been the identification of subscribers to mobile communication networks and the Internet. However, this regulatory policy that has experienced a phase of awareness, identification, but also repression, also raises questions about how to protect the privacy of citizens while monitoring the use of ICT. This study examines the challenges of regulating ICT use in Africa with the example of the Ivory Coast where the methods used to curb cybercrime raise fears of profiling people.
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spellingShingle Jean-Jacques Maomra BOGUI
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La régulation des usages des TIC en Côte d’Ivoire : entre identification et craintes de profilage des populations
Tic & Société
control
monitoring
security
cybercrime
identification
title La régulation des usages des TIC en Côte d’Ivoire : entre identification et craintes de profilage des populations
title_full La régulation des usages des TIC en Côte d’Ivoire : entre identification et craintes de profilage des populations
title_fullStr La régulation des usages des TIC en Côte d’Ivoire : entre identification et craintes de profilage des populations
title_full_unstemmed La régulation des usages des TIC en Côte d’Ivoire : entre identification et craintes de profilage des populations
title_short La régulation des usages des TIC en Côte d’Ivoire : entre identification et craintes de profilage des populations
title_sort la regulation des usages des tic en cote d ivoire entre identification et craintes de profilage des populations
topic control
monitoring
security
cybercrime
identification
url https://journals.openedition.org/ticetsociete/1983
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