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The rise of African SIM registration: The emerging dynamics of regulatory change

机译:非洲SIM卡注册的兴起:法规变更的新兴动力

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The African experience with mobile telephony has been extolled as a defining moment in the continent’s contemporary economic, social, and political development. Yet SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) registration schemes are threatening to throttle the technology’s developmental potential. These mandates, which require the registration of identity information to activate a mobile SIM card, are fast becoming universal in Africa, with little to no public debate about the wider social or political effects. Whereas some authors have explored the motivations behind these drives, as well as their potential economic impacts, this paper focuses its critique on the broader diversity of implications of this regulatory transformation. Viewing SIM registration through a lens that combines surveillance studies and information & communication technologies for development, it examines elements of resistance across a range of actors, as well as other emerging effects like access barriers, linkages to financialization, and Africa’s budding mobile surveillance society.
机译:非洲人在移动电话方面的经验被赞誉为非洲大陆当代经济,社会和政治发展的决定性时刻。然而,SIM(用户身份模块)注册方案正威胁着限制该技术的发展潜力。这些要求注册身份信息以激活移动SIM卡的授权在非洲迅速普及,几乎没有甚至没有关于更广泛的社会或政治影响的公开辩论。尽管一些作者已经探究了这些驱动力背后的动机及其潜在的经济影响,但本文将其批评的重点放在了这种监管转型所带来的广泛影响上。它通过结合监视研究和信息与通信技术促进发展的视角来查看SIM注册,研究了各种参与者之间的抵制因素,以及其他新兴影响,如访问障碍,与金融化的联系以及非洲新兴的移动监视社会。

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