Messages gleaned from day one

There has been some debate over the ability of this conference to provide solutions to the challengers our digital age presents. But was this ever the mission of this conference? As I understood it the conference was to open discussion and debate. Surely before questions can be answer and solutions found, we must beware of the complexities of the challengers before us.

I feel we would also be prepared to concede not all challengers will be meet. We have already wittiness debate our safety and security online. Put simply my opinion is crocks are crocks. If a individual seeks to engage in criminal activities and activities the harm others such as making viruses that attack our computers and mobile devices then, no matter how suffocated we design on security there will always be individuals seeking to out smart the online security teams.

Also one day one, concerns over freedom of speech and censorship were expressed. The Internet with a platform of such open avenues for the expressions of ideas, thoughts, feelings and beliefs come dangers. Knowledge in the wrong hands can be dangerous. Censorship has been around in one from or another since the ability to publish emerged. Although it is easy to highlight the tendency of some countries governments to censor what residences and citizens have access to in terms or social media, we much we remember that censorship is part of the every media we read, listen to, watch and are exposed to via the Internet and the many social networks we access.

In many was these challenges being discussed are not exclusively cyberspace challengers. Rather they are the globalization of threats within main stream society which continues to be corrupt by greed, power and lust. The challenge before us is twofold. One we must continue to address these issues on the human front in mainstream society, secondly these to address at policy-making  level 

Nowhere in the globalise economy are the difference in social-economics and developments in local infrastructure more obvious than in cyberspace.  The haves and have-nots may not have faces but the ability to participate, engage and earn a living in a cyberspace economy is worlds apart.  A system that has the greatest potential to unite us divides us like never before. 

The real challenge before us and once I believe can be and must be address is technological infrastructure, both in rural areas in the western world, socio-economical  challenged urban area, indigenous cultures and developing countries. I believe only when everybody at least has affordable and reliable access to the Internet and mobile technology can we truly claim to live in a globalise economy.