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Global-ICT 2012 (18)
Theme: Digital threats in Cyber life
Games of ‘cops and robbers’ are continuing into the digital era. Technology brings clever ways of detecting and preventing crime, with monitoring public places, obtaining digital evidence or pinpointing locations of mobile phones. However, the same technology is also used for sophisticated crimes – organising gang movements, co-ordinating attacks, not to mention digital thefts. Tools of social networking have been at the heart of the Arab Spring, but also aided criminal riots in London. Surveillance cameras capture perpetrators of offences but they also infringe on our liberties. Lawful interception is crucial to state security, but phone tapping of victims in order to sell newspapers is abhorrent to us all. Our industry has to be prepared to cope with both angles of cyber life, navigating carefully between right and wrong, risks and benefits…
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Global-ICT 2011 (17)
Theme: Cloud power - for industry, commerce, social networking, at home and on the street.
Most major companies already use the cloud - cloud computing, that is - or are planning to do so within the next few years. Although many of these companies expect to increase their spending on services delivered through the cloud, most are seriously concerned about what services they will use the cloud for, the service providers they will use and the risks they will face - the potential loss of control over their own data and operations and especially the security of their data.
No one doubts the savings cloud-based services can provide, the efficiencies it can bring or even the ‘green’ benefits to be derived, but CIOs and CTOs the world over are beset by doubts regarding both known risks and imponderable possibilities.
On the other hand, the cloud is a relatively risk-free way to take advantage of applications that and access information that just won’t fit in a mobile phone. The growth of mobile Internet access and an explosion of cloud-based services for personal use will parallel the growth of smartphone adoption. Operators - to the extent they can keep building-out their network to accommodate the traffic - the traffic generated by the access to content and applications on the cloud will build operator revenues without diverting capital away from the network. The massive computing power of the cloud will, in the near future, enable even relatively simple smartphones and feature phones to access what today would be unimaginably powerful and sophisticated applications - even for a desktop computer.
To facilitate interaction, businesses are starting to use the cloud to organise social networks within their business environments; they are also exploring the use of the cloud to track and mine information from existing social networks. At the IEEE Cloud 2010 conference a ‘social cloud’ was proposed that would make it possible for ‘friends’ on a social networks to share information, computing capacity and other online resources. But that is only the start. The raw computing power of the cloud will make possible enhanced contextual information - real-time mobile-delivered information about people, situations, places and more - as we come across them - that will greatly enrich the way we interact with others and deal with common or uncommon real-life situations.
The cloud is still a work in progress, an important work, and its final shape is far from known. We know, though, that the powerful resources the cloud can bring to bear in our lives will change the role it will play in business, in mobile computing and even in the way we deal with our social life.
Global-ICT 2010 (20)
Theme: When everything connects
We are moving towards an era when everything and everyone is connected at all times. The value of a network expands exponentially as the number of users increases - but so does the traffic, the power consumption and at times its vulnerability. Network growth involves a wide variety of hardware, software and financial planning and practical considerations. There are also profound economic and social consequences to a highly - pervasively - interconnected world.
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Theme: Connecting for a better world - opening the doors to progress
Connect-World Global Visionaries, Global Visions 2009 will commemorate the ITU Telecom World 2009 event - Geneva, Switzerland, 5-9 October 2009.
The ITU Telecom World 2009 theme, ‘Connecting for a better world - opening the doors to progress’, speaks to the same concerns that the leaders of government, industry and social institutions that written about in our pages over the years - human, regional and industrial development; access to ICT and information; the impact of new technologies; the viability of ICT business models; government policy; and the impact of ICTs upon the great issues that affect our society such as global warming.
Connect-World began 12 years ago as a publication dedicated to regional development. Over the years, we have broadened our scope to include every region of the world - developed and developing alike. We remain dedicated to discussing the impact of ICT upon businesses, people and societies throughout the world. Connect-World examines how information and communications technology connects the world’s people and opens the doors to opportunity.
For Connect-World Global Visionaries, Global Visions 2009, we are inviting outstanding leaders of government, industry and social institutions from around the world to share their visions and help us understand how open networks can connect people and societies to create a better world.
Global-ICT 2008 (17)
Theme: The information society 2015 - corporate responsibility and digital access for sustainable development
The World Summit on the Information Society, WSIS, established a number of goals for the year 2015. Providing the world’s peoples with access - to connect the world’s people in even the remotest regions, its schools, governments, research centres, libraries, hospitals and health centres, cultural centres, museums, post offices and archives - was the primary goal. One of the most important goals set by the WSIS calls for a world where, “more than half the world's inhabitants have access to ICTs within their reach,” by 2015. The WSIS also called for, “ensuring that all of the world's population have access to television and radio services”.
Providing digital access, as a way to achieve sustainable development, to half the world’s population within a decade is a grand ambition. It will take a mighty effort. Governments, international organizations and non-governmental organisations - NGOs, can do part of the job, but far from all of it. Much of this mighty effort will depend upon the world’s business enterprises. To complete this mission, new technologies, new hardware and software, new applications and content, manufacturing genius, financial resources and logistics that only private enterprise can efficiently provide, develop, deploy and manage will be needed.
What is corporate responsibility in this context? What can, and should, corporations do, then, to help achieve the ambitious WSIS goals? What are they already doing? How can businesses participate? Why should they participate? What will be the rewards and the costs? Is corporate responsibility - corporate participation in the building of the Information Society - good business? These are the questions Connect-World will ask global leaders.
Global-ICT 2007 (17)
Theme: The world's on a string - using ICT to tie it together!
Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are powerful tools, they are changing the way we work and the way we play. The global economy and the lives of many people have changed dramatically as a result of ICTs, and there is a broad consensus - almost faith - in the ability of ICT to solve many, if not all of the world's problems. The United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) concentrated upon the use of ICTs to create an information society and move forward to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Not a day passes without some new notion about how ICT will create a better world.
What is lacking in much of this talk is a hardheaded notion of some of the practical steps we must take to actually have some impact upon the major challenges that humanity faces.
We have all heard the old saying, "a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step". I suspect mankind's journey to solve the major global challenges needs thousand, if not millions, of small, practical, steps. I have heard all my life - my father repeated this frequently - that, 'every complex problem has a simple answer, but it is probably wrong!' Complex problems need many simple answers. What is yours?
What are some of the simple things, the first steps, we might take using ICTs to help deal with major global challenges, such as global warming, poverty, health, education, wars...?
The theme for this issue of the annual Connect-World Global Visionariesissue for 2007 is - The world's on a string - using ICT to tie it together. How can we connect for a better world?
Global-ICT 2006 (23)
Theme: Digital lifelines - building the digital world
Connect-World, from its beginning, has dedicated itself to discussing the impact of ICT upon people, regions and societies throughout the world Global Visionaries, Global Visions 2006 edition will commemorate the ITU Telecom World 2006 event, which will take place in Hong Kong from 4th to 8th December. The theme for Telecom World 2006 is Living the digital world. The event will explore how Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is changing our lives and how the interaction between equipment, services and applications providers is changing how society is structured and how it works.
The theme of the Connect-World Global Visionaries, Global Visions 2006 edition, complementing the Telecom World 2006 theme, will be Digital lifelines — building the digital world.
Issue by issue, for the last ten years, Connect-World has documented digital lifestyles. The daily routine of living in a digital world is quite different in trendy Tokyo, London, New York or along the beaches of Rio de Janeiro than it is in rural areas around the world, in city slums or in the least developed regions of each continent. What digital technology signifies in each of these regions is vastly different. In one city, a mobile phone is a teenager's passport to social acceptance, a credit card, a TV, a way to invite friends to a party. In other parts of the world, even the simplest mobile device is a family's lifeline — the promise of a brighter future. This issue of Connect-World will be devoted to the building of the digital world, in all its guises. World leaders, decision makers and thinkers from government industry and international institutions will be asked to share their visions of the digital world — how to build and shape it, and how to create a lifeline for those who need it most.
Global-ICT 2005 (18)
Theme: Building the global information economy
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
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Theme: Challenges and Opportunities for Business Society 2004
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
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Theme: Access To Technology - Leading edge Solutions
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
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Theme: Consolidate and Drive Forward
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
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