In assessing cybercrime legislation, policy makers and gender and development advocates must carefully consider the implications for privacy and information security. On the one hand, ICTs have created opportunities to combat inequality through movements and communities against issues that were once deemed 'private', such as domestic violence and sex trafficking. On the other hand, ICTs exacerbate existing structures of inequality by enabling cybercriminals to access and misuse private informati more...

'The World Bank Board of Directors endorsed today the new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Costa Rica, which envisages a lending program of up to US$258 million between August 2008 and December 2010.'

The Association of National Advertisers announced Sunday it sent a letter to the head of the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice, citing its opposition to the controversial Yahoo-Google search advertising deal. The ANA, a powerful group of more than 400 companies that spend more than $100 billion in marketing and commercial advertising, said it conducted a comprehensive and independent analysis of its members and held in-person discussions with both companies before sending the more...

Internet 'traffic grew 53 percent from mid-2007 to mid-2008, down from a growth rate of 61 percent in the previous 12 months.....Growth on long-haul lines in the U.S. was even slower, at 47 percent. The big increase came in regions where the Internet is less mature. Traffic between the U.S. and Latin America more than doubled. Meanwhile, international Internet capacity on ocean-spanning optical fibers increased 62 percent. On average, Internet traffic now uses just 29 percent of the available b more...

Google launched the beta version of Google Chrome on Tuesday, September 2 in more than 100 countries. The browser is to be open source. Google, which has collaborated with Mozilla in maintaining and improving the Firefox browser has recently signed an agreement to continue in that effort. A comic is available online describing the effort:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html

'On public request, a “Working Group on Cyber Law in India” is in the process of being constituted that would take care of the legal enablement of ICT systems in India. The same would consist of leading Organisations, Institutions, Industrial and Professional Bodies, Members of Civil Society and NGOs, Governmental Representatives, Lawyers, Judges, etc who have sound knowledge and expertise in the field of ICT. The Heads/CEO/Managing Partners of CA and CS Firms are also welcome to join this g more...

Recent visitors to the online sports pages of the Boston Herald who had visited Barack Obama's Web site received as many as three Obama ads alongside the news. Readers who hadn't visited his site didn't see a single Obama add.

Both presidential campaigns are reluctant to discuss the details of their abilities to identify sympathetic voters based on their Internet habits, and then to target them with ads as they move across the Web. However, this emerging capability is one of the defining aspe more...

As part of the TRICALCAR project a set of seven new training modules on community wireless connectivity, which TRICALCAR project partners are pleased to share with its African counterpart CWCA, has been made available.
The Latin American technical teams now published these materials in English, as a feedback to the community who has been using the original curriculum, in Africa and elsewhere. The materials are published under the same formats and conditions as the rest of the TRICALCAR project more...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexicans will soon be able to pay for small purchases such as restaurant meals and taxi rides using their mobile telephones, the country's banks said on Monday.

Telephone operators Telefonica SA (TEF.MC) and Iusacell (CEL.MX) are teaming up with big banks such as Citigroup Inc (C.N) and BBVA (BBVA.MC) to launch the service, marketed at first toward technology savvy teenagers and expected to debut over the next few months.

Cell phone users will be able to have their more...

'Nearly 500,000 people in developing nations earn a wage making virtual goods in online games to sell to players, a study has found.' That was the finding of a study by Richard Heeks, a member of this community.