Security Arrangements for the 2011 Elections

Security Arrangements of the Persian Gulf and the Strategic Competition of Iran and USA

Before the beginning of the European colonialism era, the Persian Gulf was a communication link between Asia, Europe and Africa, through which silk, spices and other needed goods were transported into the Mediterranean. With the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope and the flourishing of the southern African routes, in order to control the trade routes, colonialists entered the arena, and worked ...

Iran and the future of security arrangements in the Gulf region

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Persian Gulf system of cybernetics and the possibility of Iran's role and influence on the future of security arrangements in the Persian Gulf region. In this regard, the author describes the cybernetic theory in regional studies as a conceptual framework of the research to implement the hegemonic security system of the Persian Gulf. Then, by showing ...

Mobile Participation? Crowdsourcing during the 2011 Uganda General Elections

This paper examines the challenges and opportunities in using mobile phones for political participation. In doing so, a study was conducted on the open crowdsourcing election monitoring platform UgandaWatch. SMS questionnaires were sent out to a) a randomised sample of Ugandan mobile phone users and to b) a sample of users of UgandaWatch. The key findings were; a) open crowdsourcing provides a ...

Security Threat Assessment: towards 2015 Elections

Information Security Governance Arrangements: The Devil is in the Details

Information security governance includes the governance aspect, which sets the information security direction and strategy of an organization, and, the management aspect, which addresses how the strategy is implemented and managed. In this article, we focus on the management aspect of information security governance. Different organizational arrangements (i.e., governance arrangements) are poss...