Telecommunications across borders

Trading across borders

The cost of living is high in Juba, the capital of the world’s youngest nation, the Republic of South Sudan.1 Decades of conflict have wiped out basic infrastructure and destroyed what production capacity it once had. So most goods—including food, basic inputs and construction materials—must be imported. That can be costly and slow. An entrepreneur in Juba would have to spend $9,429 to import a...

Trust across borders

Received: 17 October 2005 Accepted: 17 October 2005 Online publication date: 15 December 2005 Abstract We make the case for fresh approaches to examine the role of trust in international collaborations, based on the idea that not only do the levels of trust differ across international borders but also both the nature of trust and the institutional and cultural support for trust can vary across ...

Side-Channel Leakage across Borders

More and more embedded devices store sensitive information that is protected by means of cryptography. The confidentiality of this data is threatened by information leakage via side channels like the power consumption or the electromagnetic radiation. In this paper, we show that the side-channel leakage in the power consumption is not limited to the power-supply lines and that any input/output ...

Boring European Borders?! Integration and Mobility across Borders

This paper discusses the apparent stubbornness of immobility that exists in the European Union. It starts from the observation that the apparent abolishing of borders has not led to the supposed increase in crossborder interaction. Two concepts are introduced, indifference and unfamiliarity, this way trying to understand border effects, especially in Europe and the European Union. From this it ...

Global IT Outsourcing Software Development across Borders