Behavioral Cybersecurity and Ethical AI in Relational Economics Context: Policy Lessons for Africa - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3032012139 ISBN 13: 9783032012135

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2026

Synopsis

Artificial intelligence can enable unique socioeconomic circumstances. This interdisciplinary book applies behavioral economics to AI-driven dynamics and concepts such as cybersecurity. Blending cutting-edge theory, workable policy insights, and human-AI cooperation, this book provides an ethical governance framework readers can apply across different contexts.

The book identifies unique AI-driven patterns, cultural nuances, and socioeconomic drivers in African contexts, asking readers to rethink their approach to knowledge-based systems, behavioral frontiers, and cybersecurity. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to help readers decode how AI shapes African government cybersecurity choices.

With a unique focus on supporting safer and more resilient cybersecurity behaviors in Africa, the book provides insights into the interconnections between education, finance, entrepreneurship, information science, psychology, public health, and other policy domains, the book proposes workable policy tools to help action the African Union Agenda 2063. Chapters offer constructive approaches to reconfigure the UN's SDGs 2030 themes related to cybersecurity and AI.

Readers will discover opportunities to bolster the capacities of policymaking and research to enable AI-driven technologies, support cultural nuances, and transform socioeconomic circumstances.

About this title

About the Author

Gbadebo Odularu teaches international economics, labor economics, econometrics, macroeconomics theory, African economic development, and economic research methods at Howard University. He is Research Fellow for the Princeton University Pan-African Scientific Research Council (PASRC) and the Global Labor Organization (GLO). Odularu is also President of the Washington, DC-based professional development non-profit, African Finance and Economic Association (AFEA). In 2023, he was an instructor for Econometrics I for Howard University's American Economic Association (AEA) Summer Program. He is the editor or coeditor of Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture, and Climate Change in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Strategic Policy Options for Bracing Nigeria for the Future of Trade (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), and Trade Facilitation Capacity Needs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

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Artificial intelligence can enable unique socioeconomic circumstances. This interdisciplinary book applies behavioral economics to AI-driven dynamics and concepts such as cybersecurity. Blending cutting-edge theory, workable policy insights, and human-AI cooperation, this book provides an ethical governance framework readers can apply across different contexts.

The book identifies unique AI-driven patterns, cultural nuances, and socioeconomic drivers in African contexts, asking readers to rethink their approach to knowledge-based systems, behavioral frontiers, and cybersecurity. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to help readers decode how AI shapes African government cybersecurity choices.

With a unique focus on supporting safer and more resilient cybersecurity behaviors in Africa, the book provides insights into the interconnections between education, finance, entrepreneurship, information science, psychology, public health, and other policy domains, the book proposes workable policy tools to help action the African Union Agenda 2063. Chapters offer constructive approaches to reconfigure the UN's SDGs 2030 themes related to cybersecurity and AI.

Readers will discover opportunities to bolster the capacities of policymaking and research to enable AI-driven technologies, support cultural nuances, and transform socioeconomic circumstances.

 

Gbadebo Odularu teaches international economics, labor economics, econometrics, macroeconomics theory, African economic development, and economic research methods at Howard University. He is Research Fellow for the Princeton University Pan-African Scientific Research Council (PASRC) and the Global Labor Organization (GLO). Odularu is also President of the Washington, DC-based professional development non-profit, African Finance and Economic Association (AFEA). In 2023, he was an instructor for Econometrics I for Howard University's American Economic Association (AEA) Summer Program. He is the editor or coeditor of Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture, and Climate Change in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Strategic Policy Options for Bracing Nigeria for the Future of Trade (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), and Trade Facilitation Capacity Needs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3032012139
• ISBN 13: 9783032012135
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 615
• Editor: Odularu Gbadebo