Research Mission

To make insightful research into the field of Identity and provide quality education and training through creation, preservation, integration, transmission and utilization of knowledge.

Diasporic Networks
Chinese food restaurants are no longer located in the heart of Beijing but rather in the suburbs of London, New York, Buenos Aires and Warsaw. This is possible because recipes to Chinese delicacies are just a click away from anywhere on the globe. Through the Internet, diasporic communities are getting a chance to participate in socio-political activities that transcend national boundaries. From trading on the stock markets, participating in political debates to holding chat sessions with friends, the list of what one can do through the Internet is endless.
This development has opened new possibilities in the area of Identity. Scholars argue that such transnational interactions among diasporic communities lead to hybridized cultural identities. This is because new cultural attachments beyond those of national identities have been formed through the Internet. So the next time you see Sushi on a menu, do not assume you are in Japan, you could as well be in the jungles of Africa.

Neuro-linguistic programming
According to Jean Nidetch, “Its choice, not chance, that determines your destiny.” Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a communication model that can help us make the right behavioral choices in order to determine our destiny. NLP helps us to shape our identities by allowing us to change, adopt or eliminate behaviors as we desire. It is a programme that allows us to choose our mental, emotional, and physical states of well being thereby allowing us to become proficient at creating our futures.
NLP utilizes a set of techniques or strategies to help us in enhancing our communication skills and personal influence. This means that it provides us with a set of guiding values, approaches, and techniques about real life behavior. NLP therefore aims to increase behavioral and emotional flexibility by instruction in using language, imagination, and the body.

Terror and the Internet
It has often been argued that terrorists thrive on the publicity they receive from the media. This being the case, the Internet has made this scenario even worse. Terrorists have a lot to celebrate about the nature of the Internet today. This is because it offers them easy access, vast potential audiences, anonymity of communication and no regulation whatsoever.
Terrorists have therefore used the Internet to achieve several of their goals that include recruitment, fundraising and sharing information. The fight against terror on the Internet has for a long time been an uphill task. This is because the Internet is an embodiment of the democratic ideals of free speech and open communication.  To fight terrorism, it is therefore important that our governments and the public in general become informed about the uses to which terrorists put the Internet.

Identity Algorithm

Since most Internet users identify themselves by means of pseudonyms rather than their real names, online identities can be best described as malleable. This makes it difficult for governments or online businesses to authentically identify a person over the internet. Consequently, identification has become a major problem on the internet since it creates room for cyber crimes such as identity theft, cyber terrorism, electronic vandalism and extortion.

Identity Algorithm is therefore a project that builds a profile of a person who wants to be identified.  To establish identity, this programme uses computer programs to analyze different aspects of human identity such as ethnicity, gender, age and social status. This programme helps in reducing online crimes such as stealing money and other benefits by pretending to be someone else or by hiding real identites.

Identity Algorithm is a project builds a profile of a person who wants to be identified. We will use computer programs to analyze different aspects of human identity such as ethnical, gender, age and social status. These profiles will be mainly used for governmental and commercial usages helping preventing Cyber-crimes such as fishing, stilling identity and Cyber-terrorism. The logic behind the development of the Algorithm is that a computer will be likely to make a decision to initiate information sharing, even before human receiver are even aware of the information sent.

Specifically we will apply the search identity, combinatorial algorithms and machine learning algorithms for better analysis of the data existing on the person to be identified.