Aaron Martin

TL;DR: 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.

TL;DR: This paper analyzes the discourses that pervaded the case in order to untangle how various publics are formed and exhibit differing, conflicting understandings of a novel technology.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the broader diversity of implications of the regulatory transformation of SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) registration schemes, and examine elements of resistance across a range of actors, as well as emerging effects like access barriers, linkages to financialization, and Africa's budding mobile surveillance society.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the discourses that pervaded the case in order to untangle how various publics are formed and exhibit differing, conflicting understandings of a novel technology, finding that it was often those entities that best understood the technology that found it least acceptable, rather than those populations that lacked knowledge.

TL;DR: The ASR Forum on Surveillance in Africa seeks to analyze some of the subtle and diverse political implications of identification and observation across the continent as mentioned in this paper. But, despite decades of work devoted to the politics, histories and techniques of surveillance and control in Western societies, there is very little work on the local exigencies and manifestations of surveillance in African contexts.