Compliance evaluation of information privacy protection in e-government systems in Anglophone West Africa using ISO/IEC 29100:2011
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Due to various reasons, only few researchers focused their investigations on the current status of information security and privacy protection of e-Government services in Africa. This paper attempts to partially fill the gap by reporting on the compliance evaluation of privacy protection in e-Government systems in the countries of Anglophone West Africa, namely in Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gambia. In the countries, e-Government services have become one of the most important and efficient means by which government interacts with citizens. The ways to facilitate information privacy protection in e-Government systems of a given country include enactment of a comprehensive information privacy regulation. The regulation serves as a legal framework that considers internationally accepted privacy protection principles, such as those of the ISO/IEC 29100:2011, and applicable guidelines of the U.S. NIST SP 800-53 Rev.4. In this paper, the privacy principles of the ISO/IEC 29100:2011 serve as a baseline for evaluation of the content of privacy protection regulations of the Anglophone West African countries. The paper also reports results of a passive security reconnaissance performed on selected e-Government websites. While the paper acknowledges recent progresses made in the area of privacy protection in the countries of Anglophone West Africa, recommendations are provided to mitigate the identified gaps.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it