A security model for Namibian Government Services

Erastus, Licky Richard; Jere, Nobert; Shava, Fungai Bhunu

doi:10.23919/istafrica.2017.8102380

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“…Provision of power and water are political and human rights issues, further complicating their implementation (Gambe, 2015). Research into network security for smart cities has been carried out in Namibia (Erastus et al, 2020).…”

Section: Smart City [As] Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The impacts of 'big data' on individual privacy are highlighted as well as the need for management frameworks (Loideain, 2017). To ensure that data is protected, there is a need for the adoption of security frameworks to collect, clean, store, share, use and delete data in line with agreed data policies (Erastus et al, 2020;Loideain, 2017). Thus, the importance of security frameworks is being recognised as we increasingly adopt smart city tech and a number of countries have begun to develop these frameworks (Erastus et al, 2020).…”

Section: Smart City [As] Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…To ensure that data is protected, there is a need for the adoption of security frameworks to collect, clean, store, share, use and delete data in line with agreed data policies (Erastus et al, 2020;Loideain, 2017). Thus, the importance of security frameworks is being recognised as we increasingly adopt smart city tech and a number of countries have begun to develop these frameworks (Erastus et al, 2020). Additionally, Cinnamon (2023) discusses the idea of data culture which he de nes as the "values, behaviours, and norms ascribed to data by groups or organisations that together shape practices of data collection, management, use and sharing" highlighting that realising certain smart city goals requires alignment with the prevalent culture in a society (e.g.…”

Section: Smart City [As] Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

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Smart cities governance in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region: A systematic review of the literature

Duca,

Mutua,

Tetley-Brown

et al. 2024

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Urban scholarship and practices surrounding 'smart' cities address the growing datafication of urban life and governance, a process that has mixed outcomes, particularly for African cities. For this reason, this paper offers a systematic review of literature on smart cities in the South African Development Community (SADC) countries, with a focus on understanding the complexities of urban dynamics and governance within the region. It takes as its starting point the SmartCityZA collection in the uKESA repository, expanded and triangulated with a Scopus search. The novelty of this literature review is that it is constituted by policy documents and reports, as well as academic papers. This was done purposefully to interrogate not only the state of smart city knowledge in SADC but also the state of smart city practice in the region. The review found five important themes regarding smart governance in the region: (1) the social development promises of the smart city, (2) institutionalising smart city governance, (3) smart cities and digital citizenship, (4) smart city [as] infrastructure and (5) approaches to ‘smarting’ the city. The study recommends more attention to smart city agendas and to impacts from the digitalisation and datafication of urbanism, but also suggests more considered local and governance-oriented lenses for such agendas if they are to be relevant for communities in the SADC region. It concludes that whilst smart cities governance literature is plentiful in South Africa, more empirical research is needed, particularly in the other SADC countries.

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Section: Smart City [As] Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Smart City [As] Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Smart City [As] Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

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Smart cities governance in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region: A systematic review of the literature

Duca,

Mutua,

Tetley-Brown

et al. 2024

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“…In other studies, the development of security controls refers to standard security programs or enterprise architecture (EA) with complete security functions (ISO/IEC, 2013; Suter, 2007; NIST, 2018; Center for Internet Security, 2021). CII protection for several service providers results from developing EA (Baina et al , 2020; Erastus et al , 2020; Große et al , 2021; Ramtohul and Soyjaudah, 2016). Despite the variety of approaches for developing security control, the EA approach is more necessary for CII protection at the national level because EA accounts for threats, vulnerabilities, security principles and functions (Putro and Sensuse, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

Framework for critical information infrastructure protection in smart government: a case study in Indonesia

Putro,

Sensuse,

Wibowo

2023

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Purpose This paper aims to develop a framework for critical information infrastructure (CII) protection in smart government, an alternative measure for common cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework and ISO 27001. Smart government is defined as the government administration sector of CII due to its similarity as a core of smart technology. Design/methodology/approach To ensure the validity of the data, the research methodology used in this paper follows the predicting malfunctions in socio-technical systems (PreMiSTS) approach, a variation of the socio-technical system (STS) approach specifically designed to predict potential issues in the STS. In this study, PreMiSTS was enriched with observation and systematic literature review as its main data collection method, thematic analysis and validation by experts using fuzzy Delphi method (FDM). Findings The proposed CII protection framework comprises several dimensions: objectives, interdependency, functions, risk management, resources and governance. For all those dimensions, there are 20 elements and 41 variables. Practical implications This framework can be an alternative guideline for CII protection in smart government, particularly in government administration services. Originality/value The author uses PreMiSTS, a socio-technical approach combined with thematic analysis and FDM, to design a security framework for CII protection. This combination was designed as a mixed-method approach to improve the likelihood of success in an IT project.

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