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The growth of electronic devices connected to the Internet brings new concerns. These include security, privacy, user rights, data generation, spectrum management, and liability. Countries and organizations are developing policies to accommodate the Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper, we identified IoT indicators useful for policy makers. We considered four categories of indicators. These were:...
The emergence of e-commerce has brought about many benefits to a country's economy and individuals, but the openness of the Internet has given rise misuse of personal data. Several countries have enacted legislations and procedures to protect the information privacy of their citizens and corporations. However, many developing countries, such as Nigeria are yet to enact any procedures, despite the...
If Australian scientists are to fully and actively participate in international scientific collaborations utilising online technologies, policies and laws must support the data access and reuse objectives of these projects. To date Australia lacks a comprehensive policy and regulatory framework for environmental information and data generally. Instead there exists a series of unconnected Acts that...
Online communities are just like real worlds: control is necessary to make for a pleasant society. This does not automatically imply government or company control. In many virtual communities there has been a kind of social control for many years now that adequately maintains order in their public virtual space. Does this mean that laws are unnecessary? Some people cry out for an Internet police that...
The housing industry in the developing world and for long time has suffered from underinvestment, the lack of know how and the lack of sufficient strategies and policies. This in turn, led to a total failure in performance, accumulative massive housing demand and underachieving. Consequently, and because of the massive growth in the world's population, especially the Islamic World, people in the poorest...
Xiaolingtong, a quasi mobile phone based on PHS technology, had undergone a process from the government's regulation to the deregulation in China. This paper intends to adopt a dynamic game method to explain the process of Xiaolingtong's walking out from the government's regulation in China. It is showed that the total social welfare would be maximized by the government's deregulation policy at the...
Unsolicited mobile messages or mobile spam has been a serious issue threatening mobile service quality and customer satisfaction worldwide. This paper gives an analysis on the up-to-date methods and efforts concerning mobile spam regulation from various perspectives: the customers, the governments, and the operators, with the conclusion that wireless operator self-regulation is probably the most important...
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