<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Hi, folks! This might interest some of you!<br><br>Início da mensagem encaminhada:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>De:</b> data-protection-scholars@lists.uvt.nl<br><b>Data:</b> 26 de agosto de 2025 às 07:13:17 BRT<br><b>Para:</b> data-protection-scholars@lists.uvt.nl<br><b>Assunto:</b> <b>[Data-protection-scholars] Call for Papers: African Journal of Privacy & Data Protection 2025</b><br><b>Responder A:</b> data-protection-scholars@lists.uvt.nl<br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) currentcolor currentcolor; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Dear DPSN Members,</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">In case it is of your interest, please see the call for papers: <span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">African Journal of Privacy & Data Protection 2025. More info below</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span style="color: black;"><b><br></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span style="color: black;"><b>Subject:<span> </span></b>[chr] Call for Papers: African Journal of Privacy & Data Protection 2025</span></p></div><div style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><div><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><img width="562" height="295" src="cid:3390950479*ii_mer0wgs20" alt="Image" tabindex="0" style="border:medium;width:5.8541in;height:3.0729in" data-unique-identifier=""></p></div><div><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);">Themes of papers to be submitted<br></span></b><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);">Original and well researched researched papers focused on contempary privacy and data protection issurs generall and ion Africa and African countries are most welcome.</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Nexus between privacy, data protection,cybercrime and cybersecurity;</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">gender dimension of privacy and dataprotection in the digital age;</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">protection of children’s rights to privacyand data protection in the digital age;</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">emerging technologies, intellectualproperty, data protection and privacyrights;</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">privacy and data protection in the era ofdigital surveillance and big data;</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">cross-border transfer of data in thecontext of evolving African digitaleconomies;</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">critical evaluation of African dataprotection authorities (DPAs); and•</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">remedies for data breaches.</span></li></ul><p style="margin:1rem 0px"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);">Main Objectives of the Journal</span></strong><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"></span></p><p style="margin:1rem 0px"><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);">The <em><span>Journal</span></em> aims to promote African expertise and literature on Africa in the area of privacy and data protection.<br>More specifically, the Journal aims to: </span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">foster African-centred research and knowledge generation on privacy and data protection;</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">fill the critical knowledge gap in this area as well as encourage privacy and data protection discourse from an African perspective;</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">facilitate access of African scholars to new and developing knowledge in this area as well as showcase African scholars and perspectives to the world.</span></li></ul><p style="margin:1rem 0px"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);">Submission of abstracts and timetable</span></strong><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Authors interested in submitting a paper to the Journal should submit abstract of <strong><span>300</span></strong> words by <strong><span>31 August 2025</span></strong>.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Abstracts should contain the title of the paper, a short description of its focus, the methodology to be adopted, a brief overview of the issues to be explored; and the expected findings or insights. </span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Submissions should be emailed to <a href="mailto:dataprotectionproject@unilag.edu.ng" title="mailto:dataprotectionproject@unilag.edu.ng" data-outlook-id="0bce49c0-dcc5-4d01-ba16-c0909ef4f70e" style="text-decoration: underline; color: purple;"><span style="color: rgb(228, 2, 46);">dataprotectionproject@unilag.edu.ng</span></a>, decisions on abstracts will be communicated by <strong><span>15 September 2025.</span></strong></span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Draft manuscripts of accepted abstracts are expected by <strong><span>15 November 2025.</span></strong></span></li></ul><p style="margin:1rem 0px"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);">Guidelines for the Submission of Draft Manuscripts</span></strong><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"> </span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The <em><span>Journal</span></em> shall be published in the English language.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Only manuscripts that meet the objectives of the Journal identified above will be published.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The <em><span>Journal</span></em> only publishes original works of the authors that have not been published elsewhere and authors, by submitting a manuscript to the Journal, are warranting that the submissions are original unpublished works.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The proposed style guidelines for the Journal is the <strong><span>PULP style guidelines</span></strong></span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The articles should contain an abstract of 150 to 300 words.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The articles should contain the author’s name, affiliation and qualification</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The preferred length for all manuscripts submitted to the Journal is as follows:<br>(a) Articles: 6,000 to 10,000 words (subject to double- blind peer review);<br>(b) Book Reviews: 1,500 to 2,500 words (subject to internal review);<br>(c) Notes/ Comments: 3,000 to 5,000 words (subject to internal review).</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Authors are to ensure that their articles are not plagiarized works and do not infringe the copyright of other authors as the Journal takes the issue of plagiarism and copyright infringement seriously.</span></li></ul><p style="margin:1rem 0px"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);">Form of Publication of the </span></strong><em><b><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);">Journal</span></b></em><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The <em><span>Journal</span></em> is double-blind peer reviewed</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The <em><span>Journal</span></em> is purely online and will also be available on PULP’s website at <a href="https://www.pulp.up.ac.za/" title="https://www.pulp.up.ac.za/" data-outlook-id="c3136724-6362-4bc0-a512-7a44e475a7d1" style="text-decoration: underline; color: purple;"><span style="color: rgb(228, 2, 46);">www.pulp.up.ac.za</span></a>.</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The <em><span>Journal</span></em> is open-access, registration with Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and other fitting organisations will be sought.</span></li></ul><p style="margin:1rem 0px"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);">Conflict of Interest</span></strong><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"></span></p><p style="margin:1rem 0px"><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);">The <em><span>Journal</span></em> requires all authors to declare if they have any conflict of interest in relation to their manuscripts submitted to the <em><span>Journal</span></em>. Please direct any correspondence or enquiries to the Journal’s Editor as follows:</span></p><p style="margin:1rem 0px"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);">Dr. Akinola Akintayo</span></strong><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(104, 104, 104);"><br>Managing Editor<b><br></b><a href="mailto:aakintayo@unilag.edu.ng" title="mailto:aakintayo@unilag.edu.ng" data-outlook-id="d5036e4e-c153-4a62-ad51-d8902ed880b7" style="text-decoration: underline; color: purple;"><span style="color: rgb(228, 2, 46);">aakintayo@unilag.edu.ng</span></a>. </span></p></div><div><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><br></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Best Greetings,</p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">DPSN Management Committee</p></div></div><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div>
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