In a world where technology and politics interact, there is increasing discussion of the role of law and government action. This is particularly true in the case of cyberspace, where the internet is changing the ways in which regulation is applied. In the extreme case, technology is claimed to determine freedom and rights. This position has been addressed by Laurence Lessig, in his book “Code a...

On 1 January, 2012, Nigeria commenced the implementation of cashless policy, with the kick-off in Lagos State. By the end of that year it was evident the implementation could not be extended to other states of the federation, as earlier scheduled. This raised a crucial question: was Nigeria prepared in the first place, in terms of availability of needed infrastructures, to commence implementati...

The main objective of the IBM Grand Central Station (GCS) is to gather information of virtually any type of formats (text, data, image, graphics, audio, video) from the cyberspace, to process/index/summarize the information, and to push the right information to the right people. Because of the very large scale of the cyberspace, parallel processing in both crawling/gathering and information pro...

This paper begins with a long-term view of the development of cyberspace. This includes a brief examination of the worldview of a 16th-century mapmaker and over 4000 years of development from the early massive bureaucracies of Babylon and Egypt to the current day. This discussion shows that cyberspace is becoming an everyday experience and we need to design tools to help people navigate electro...

1 Kevin W. Bowyer, Schubmehl-Prein Department Chair, Computer Science & Engineering, 384 Fitzpatrick Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556. [email protected] Abstract  Freedom of speech in cyberspace is an important topic in professionalism, ethics, or social impact courses for majors in Information Systems, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering. Students often are not familiar with the complexities of ...

This article uses two cyberspatial technologies, namely, the Internet (the global network of connected computers), and its close cousins, intranets (closed, private corporate telematic networks), to illustrate the ways in which geographers have engaged, and could engage, with studies of cyberspace. Virtual reality technologies are not discussed explicitly as, in the main, they are still at an e...

The modern-day use of cyberspace has created a world that is increasingly relying on online services to operate. Nevertheless, cyberspace has a ‘dark side’; as there are many risks associated it. This ‘dark side’ has called for safety and security measures to be implemented through cyber security. As such, cultivating a supportive culture is perceived to be an important contributing factor to c...

Starting with my acquaintance with W. Ross Ashby, this paper offers an account of one aspect of his work, information theory. It shows his motivation to embrace information theory, how he extended it, where it failed while fertilizing reconstructability analysis, and what it took for a solution to emerge. Based on Ashby‘s recognition of the material limits of computation, the paper continues hi...

The present study is an attempt to problematize the multivalent data in the cyberspace through the lenses of Wittgenstein’s analytic philosophy of language. Adopting this linguistic philosophy approach is aimed at exploring the dichotomous question of whether cyberspace is a possibility for social power or it is a contributory cause of communicative discontinuity and henceforth a possibility fo...

Background: Given the appropriateness of cyberspace and its interconnectedness, each country is expected to minimize the possibility of harmful actions by securing and continuously monitoring the Internet and the virtual world. Of course, part of this goal will be achieved through the adoption of appropriate national laws and, in part, through proper education of citizens and the development of...