The course content addresses the following topics:
- Governance in a digital/AI-age: contours and anatomy of a digital world
- Framing the digital innovation cycle and its effects
- Evolution of mobile broadband technologies: from 1G to 5G and now 6G
- Future-oriented spectrum management: economic goals and technological needs
- Technology transition to smart environments: high-speed Internet, Internet of Things (IoT), data-driven digital transformation, AI-enabled economies
- Digital transitions in broadcast and postal services markets, manufacturing, and services
- Mobile financial services: the foundation for fintech in developing countries
- Digital technologies and markets enabling the digital economy
- Cloud computing, platforms, and cybersecurity
- Governance implications for globalised digital socio-economic transformation
- Governance implications for digital government and transitions to digital economies in Africa
- Market structures and regulatory reform: economic characteristics of network industries
- Global trends in regulatory reform: the dynamic interactions across competition, regulation, and innovation
- Emerging areas for regulatory practice: AI-tech, cybersecurity, data protection, other
- Global and regional regulatory institutions, and competition authorities
- Digitally driven socio-economic development: contemporary issues and initiatives
- Next generation universal access and service and the increasing digital divideManaging regulatory institutions: strategy, structure, governance, and performance
- Strategies for the digital economy in Africa (African Continental Free Trade Area); AUDA-NEPAD case studies
- Constitutional and legal frameworks for a digital economy (selected African countries)
- Policy, law, and regulation for telecoms markets: focus on competition and innovation
- Frameworks for cyber law and regulation for digital industries and digital media
- Regulating big tech platforms
- Cybercrime law, data protection law, and regulation (selected African countries): EU GDPR, AU Convention on Cybersecurity and Data Protection, SADC Framework, SADC Model Law on Cybersecurity
- Ethical endgame visualisation