Public Administration News

Data flows are spilling over the Internet's banks; Use of alternate networks may come at a cost to security and stability

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International Herald Tribune

Source Date:

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

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Private Sector

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He is using what Internet engineers refer to as a "meet-me room." The room itself is enclosed in a building full of computers and routers. What Mr. [Tim Pozar] does there is to informally wire together the networks of different businesses that want to freely share their Internet traffic. "When we started releasing data publicly, we measured it in petabytes of traffic," said ... Read More

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US experts close in on Google hackers

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Financial Times

Source Date:

Monday, February 22, 2010

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Private Sector

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A freelance security consultant in his 30s wrote the part of the program that used a previously unknown security hole in the Internet Explorer web browser to break into computers and insert the spyware, a researcher working for the US government told the Financial Times. Chinese officials had special access to the work of the author, who posted pieces of the program to a hacking forum and describe ... Read More

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New social sites post more personal information

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Financial Times

Source Date:

Monday, February 22, 2010

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Private Sector

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"There's a clear value proposition to sharing that data," said Ron Conway, a prolific investor who has backed Blippy. "People are curious about other people's buying habits and choices." Mr Conway said seeing what other people are buying and where they are going serves as a valuable recommendation and discovery tool on the internet. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief executive ... Read More

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IT groups warn on regulation

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Financial Times

Source Date:

Monday, February 22, 2010

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Private Sector

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Foreign businesses fear the authorities could pass information on to their state-owned competitors. They also argue their products could become unsafe if Beijing used its knowledge of software architecture to install "backdoors" for surveillance. John Neuffer, vice-president for global policy at the Information Technology Industry Council, a lobby group, said: "The looming choic ... Read More

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Of governments and geeks

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http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15469415#footnote1

Source Date:

Monday, February 08, 2010

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Private Sector

Summary:

In several countries more official data are being issued in raw form so that anybody can use them. This forces bureaucrats and creative types to interact in new ways

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The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) announces its February to June 2010 e-Learning Course Calendar

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http://www.unitar.org/pft/elearning

Source Date:

Thursday, February 04, 2010

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Private Sector

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The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is pleased to announce its February to June 2010 e-Learning Course Calendar.

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How ICT can strengthen Parliaments

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DESA News Vol 13, No. 12

Source Date:

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Focus:

Private Sector

Summary:

“For Parliaments, the benefits of ICT can be enormous. ICT can make the democratic process more transparent, accessible and accountable, by facilitating access of members of Parliaments, parliamentary administrations, media and citizens to information services,” said Mr. Sha Zukang, USG of DESA at the 2009 World e-Parliament Conference.

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Internet set for language revolution

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Financial Times

Source Date:

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Focus:

Private Sector

Summary:

Icann's willingness to add top-level country codes in Chinese, Korean, Cyrillic and Arabic characters ends a monopoly by Latin letters that has endured since the web's beginning and limited its appeal. About half the internet's users do not speak languages based on the Latin alphabet. They could still travel to much of the web by clicking on links compiled by search engines and other sites, but th ... Read More

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Internet crash - could it really happen?

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Financial Times

Source Date:

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Focus:

Private Sector

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Indeed, the closest the public internet has come to catastrophic failure was in January 2001 when large-scale "denial-of-service" (DoS) attacks - which typically involve bombarding a target server with spurious requests for information to slow it down or stop it - took 10 of the 13 DNS servers offline. As a result of the 2001 attacks, "anycast" load-balancing technology, wh ... Read More

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UBS deal heralds era of enforcement

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Financial Times

Source Date:

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Focus:

Private Sector

Summary:

For those reasons, the settlement of the long and bitter dispute between the US authorities and UBS, which escalated into a major row between Bern and Washington, will be closely watched by tax authorities around the world. In an initial big concession in March, Switzerland said it would accept international standards on transparency and provide more help in future tax investigations via new treat ... Read More

221 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Aug 25, 2009

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