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Securing Internet Routing from the Ground Up The Internet needs fixing The Internet plays a crucial role in our daily lives, the global economy, national security, and beyond. Yet, the core components of the Internet’s communication infrastructure, which are tasked with routing data traffic, sharing the scarce network resources between users, and providing reliability in…
Do Legislatures Enhance Democracy in Africa? Introduction Parliaments are “central institutions of democracy” that “embody the will of the people in government, and carry all their expectations that democracy will be truly responsive to their needs” (Beetham 2006: 1). Taking this definition as a starting point, a paradox emerges: if parliaments are democratic institutions,…
On October 15, 2018 the first workshop for the “Do Legislatures enhance democracy in Africa?” project took place in Lome, Togo. Eminent researchers from Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Gabon, Germany, Tanzania, Togo and Zimbabwe, met in the Togolese capital to mark the ground for the research project “Do legislatures enhance democracy in Africa?”. This project led…