Cybercrime in Sub-Saharan Africa – Its forms, Causality and Mitigation
April 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
Olumide Babatope LONGE is on faculty at the Department of Computer Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. His scholarly publication has appeared and has been quoted in reputable peer-refereed Journals, Conference proceedings, Newsletters and edited books. A recipient of the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Award, he is an Associate Director of the Institute for Cyber Security and Allied Research at the International Center for Information Technology and Development (ICITD), College of Business, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
In my PhD work, I philosophized on outbound filtering of e-mail messages and that has become a reality today. Mails are now scanned before leaving their origin by some e-mail systems (gmail for example). My research work which has taken me to Europe, the United States, Canada and quite a number of countries in Africa has also been able to establish that Africa is not the origin of most spam mails as is generally believed. We have also been able to promote a policy that makes internet intermediaries responsible for contents emanating through their networks and highlight their intrinsic role in the facilitation of unethical behaviors on the internet. We have done some work also on the effect of exposure of children and teens to spurious sexually explicit contents and its implications for these categories of people and the incidence of HIV/AIDS in Africa. These works have been published in reputable journals and presented at international conferences. Finally, we are mentoring scholars to develop interest in coming up with indigenous solution that can scale at international level to the cyber crime problem and other related issues.
