AN ANALYSIS OF THE NETWORKED READINESS INDEX DATA OF SOME SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA COUNTRIES
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2016-07
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Nigeria Computer Society
Abstract
African governments and businesses must accept the
concept of Internet of Everything (IoE) by being fully
digitized with highly robust computer network security
in order to embrace modern technologies in the form
of cloud, mobile, social and analytics. They must also
realize the importance attached to achieving societal
and economic transformation by fully understanding
the connection between people, process, data and
things in order to create the needed opportunities for
African citizens. A country’s Networked Readiness is an
ideal indicator of a country’s ability to implement and
take a competitive advantage of Information
Communication Technologies (ICTs). In this article we
investigate 6 sub-Saharan Africa countries (Botswana,
Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa and
Zimbabwe) in terms of their Networked Readiness
Index (NRI) rankings as published in the Global
Information Technology Reports (GITR) from 2002 –
2015. We developed a number of statistical models for
predicting the NRI for these countries for the next 9
years based on the NRI rankings of these countries in
the previous 9 years. Our predictive models for NRI
rankings suggest that on average over next the 9 years,
the hierarchical ordering is namely, Mauritius (1st),
South Africa (2nd), Zimbabwe (3rd), Namibia (4th),
Botswana (5th) and Nigeria (6th) respectively. We
conclude that in terms of Networked Readiness in
Africa during the period of our predictions, data
security will be crucial in three areas: confidentiality,
integrity and availability. Furthermore, we are of the
opinion that programmable security infrastructure
(software-based security environment) will have the
ability to secure dynamically a particularly sensitive
data flow across the network on demand and
according to the organization’s security policy.
African governments and businesses must accept the concept of Internet of Everything (IoE) by being fully digitized with highly robust computer network security in order to embrace modern technologies in the form of cloud, mobile, social and analytics. They must also realize the importance attached to achieving societal and economic transformation by fully understanding the connection between people, process, data and things in order to create the needed opportunities for African citizens. A country’s Networked Readiness is an ideal indicator of a country’s ability to implement and take a competitive advantage of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). In this article we investigate 6 sub-Saharan Africa countries (Botswana, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe) in terms of their Networked Readiness Index (NRI) rankings as published in the Global Information Technology Reports (GITR) from 2002 – 2015. We developed a number of statistical models for predicting the NRI for these countries for the next 9 years based on the NRI rankings of these countries in the previous 9 years. Our predictive models for NRI rankings suggest that on average over next the 9 years, the hierarchical ordering is namely, Mauritius (1st), South Africa (2nd), Zimbabwe (3rd), Namibia (4th), Botswana (5th) and Nigeria (6th) respectively. We conclude that in terms of Networked Readiness in Africa during the period of our predictions, data security will be crucial in three areas: confidentiality, integrity and availability. Furthermore, we are of the opinion that programmable security infrastructure (software-based security environment) will have the ability to secure dynamically a particularly sensitive data flow across the network on demand and according to the organization’s security policy.
African governments and businesses must accept the concept of Internet of Everything (IoE) by being fully digitized with highly robust computer network security in order to embrace modern technologies in the form of cloud, mobile, social and analytics. They must also realize the importance attached to achieving societal and economic transformation by fully understanding the connection between people, process, data and things in order to create the needed opportunities for African citizens. A country’s Networked Readiness is an ideal indicator of a country’s ability to implement and take a competitive advantage of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). In this article we investigate 6 sub-Saharan Africa countries (Botswana, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe) in terms of their Networked Readiness Index (NRI) rankings as published in the Global Information Technology Reports (GITR) from 2002 – 2015. We developed a number of statistical models for predicting the NRI for these countries for the next 9 years based on the NRI rankings of these countries in the previous 9 years. Our predictive models for NRI rankings suggest that on average over next the 9 years, the hierarchical ordering is namely, Mauritius (1st), South Africa (2nd), Zimbabwe (3rd), Namibia (4th), Botswana (5th) and Nigeria (6th) respectively. We conclude that in terms of Networked Readiness in Africa during the period of our predictions, data security will be crucial in three areas: confidentiality, integrity and availability. Furthermore, we are of the opinion that programmable security infrastructure (software-based security environment) will have the ability to secure dynamically a particularly sensitive data flow across the network on demand and according to the organization’s security policy.
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Keywords
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICTS),, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICTS),, NETWORKED READINESS INDEX (NRI),, NETWORKED READINESS INDEX (NRI),, SECURITY,, SECURITY,, REGRESSION ANALYSIS,, REGRESSION ANALYSIS,, SUB-SAHARAN, SUB-SAHARAN