The One Laptop per Child foundation (OLPC) cheap laptop, called the XO, provides access to the Internet using a mesh network approach. Thus messages from one child's laptop may pass through many other laptops before reaching a telephone network. As designed, the XO technology provides children a protection against the theft of their machines. The OLPC security team, formerly led by Ivan Krsti at Harvard University, developed the Bitfrost security model for the XO. Its anti-theft system is called more...

The European Commission is spending 55m euros (£42m) on making the net a safer place for children.
The money will be spent over four years on educational efforts and ways to protect children from inappropriate content and cyber bullying.

President Bush publicly urged the House of Representatives to pass legislation that would grant immunity to telecommunications firms that may have illegally spied on citizens after being requested to do so by the government. The president said such activities protect against terrorism; opponents of the bill say they break the law. The Senate has already approved a version of the legislation.

The Cyber Security Trends in India are not very encouraging. To worsen the situation we have a weak Cyber Law in India. Cyber Security is witnessing many important phases and trends. From the perspective of mere “fun game” cyber crimes and contraventions have emerged as a “professional activity” and have been transformed into a “profession” itself. No country of the world is safe from various cyber crimes and contraventions and all are struggling hard to tackle them. But the fact rem more...

The Internet network is known as one of the most democratic and powerful media ever offered to citizens. It is even recognized as  "a new frontier in the struggle for human rights" by Amnesty International. The Internet became a new dissident means of expression serving citizens and human rights defenders in a growing movement recognized as "e-activism". At the same time, in many countries where the liberty of expression and human rights are not fully respected, censorship of the Internet is more...

The OpenNet Initiative blog investigates state-based Internet filtering on a daily basis. The ONI blog as recently pointed out the Internet outage in Burma during September 2007. The OpenNet Initative’s mission is to identify and document Internet filtering and surveillance, and to promote and
inform wider public dialogue about such practices.

UNESCO's New Communication Strategy gives high priority to encouraging the free flow of information, at international as well as national levels, to promoting its wider and better balanced dissemination, without any obstacle to the freedom of expression, and to strengthening communication capacities in the developing countries in order to increase their participation in the communication process.

This article recently published by Global Voices focuses on recent evolution of networks and NGOs fighting censorship over the Internet with a particular focus on Global Voices Online's actions: "During the last six months, since the launch of Global Voices Advocacy, we have been trying to cover the increasingly serious threats to online speech occurring around the globe and the efforts to combat them. We’ve documented the arrest and detention of scores of bloggers and online authors and high more...

13-14 September 2007, Strasbourg: European regional meeting on the « ethical dimensions of the information society» Organized by the French Commission for UNESCO in cooperation with UNESCO and the Council of Europe. This European meeting is the third(1) of a cycle of regional conferences by UNESCO on the ethical dimensions of the information society(2). This initiative is a contribution to the implementation of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) on the ethical dimension of the more...

India is on the verge of a technology revolution and the driving force behind the same is the acceptance and adoption of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and its benefits. This technology revolution may, however, fail to bring the desired and much needed result if we do not adopt a sound and country oriented Cyber Security Policy. An ideal Cyber Security Policy presupposes the existence of a sound and secure e-governance and critical infrastructure base in India. The security and s more...