The Future of the Global Internet Economy
London, UK - 7 July 2007, 9:27 GMT - The Internet is increasingly
critical to our economies and societies -- with far reaching implications
for all policy domains. Only now is the world beginning to grasp the Internet's
potential as a powerful driver of innovation, sustainable economic growth
and social well-being. It is timely for leaders in governments, corporates,
NGOs and technology experts to forge broad understanding and principles
that will guide the next decade of the Internet economy.
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We look forward to your further thoughts, observations and views. Thank
you.
Best wishes
For and on behalf of DK Matai, Chairman, Asymmetric Threats Contingency
Alliance (ATCA)
ATCA: The Asymmetric Threats Contingency
Alliance is a philanthropic expert initiative founded in 2001
to resolve complex global challenges through collective Socratic
dialogue and joint executive action to build a wisdom based global
economy. Adhering to the doctrine of non-violence, ATCA addresses
asymmetric threats and social opportunities arising from climate
chaos and the environment; radical poverty and microfinance; geo-politics
and energy; organised crime & extremism; advanced technologies
-- bio, info, nano, robo & AI; demographic skews and resource
shortages; pandemics; financial systems and systemic risk; as
well as transhumanism and ethics. Present membership of ATCA is
by invitation only and has over 5,000 distinguished members from
over 100 countries: including several from the House of Lords,
House of Commons, EU Parliament, US Congress & Senate, G10's
Senior Government officials and over 1,500 CEOs from financial
institutions, scientific corporates and voluntary organisations
as well as over 750 Professors from academic centres of excellence
worldwide.
The views presented by individual contributors are not necessarily
representative of the views of ATCA, which is neutral. Please
do not forward or use the material circulated without permission
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Low Probability High Impact and
Black Swan Events
London, UK - 12 June 2007, 14:22 GMT
Dear ATCA Colleagues
[Please note that the views presented by individual contributors
are not necessarily representative of the views of ATCA, which is neutral.
ATCA conducts collective Socratic dialogue on global opportunities and
threats.]
Considerations for Future Scenarios -- The Opportunity and Risk
of Asymmetric Globalisation
We are all being hurled closer to each other as the world integrates
faster than ever before. The propensity for fast global integration
creates both huge opportunities and its inevitable flip-side, huge risks.
In the future, we should be concerned about Low Probability High Impact
and Black Swan events which can change the present trajectory of nation
states and large economic entities, many with turnovers in excess of
the GDP of most nations. Welcome to Asymmetric Globalisation in which
friends and adversaries are no longer similar looking as they react
to on- and off-the-radar forces giving rise to Low Probability High
Impact and Black Swan Events. This also means that more risk is increasingly
transferred into the markets away from Sovereign states, increasing
their volatility.
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As a special consideration, please note that some Low Probability High
Impact and Black Swan events may actually become High Probability High
Impact Events as time goes by owing to the five drivers converging and
colliding.
The ATCA think-piece, based on major research, was put together by DK
Matai and the mi2g Intelligence Unit. ATCA reviewers of the article
include: Aileen Armour-Biggs, Douglas Byblow, Professor Nigel M de S
Cameron, Hervé de Carmoy, Fred Cohen, Jean-Yves Gresser, Hamid
Hakimzadeh, Gerald Harris, Rear Admiral John Hilton, Chris Histed, Alexander
Hoare, Prof Sai-Felicia Krishna-Hensel, Prof Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Andrew
Leung, George Littlejohn, Thierry Malleret, Dr Harald Malmgren, Nicholas
Mellor, Miguel Mendonca, Prof Jim Norton, John Petersen, John Pickering,
Richard Thomas Gerber, Commodore Patrick Tyrrell, Michael Wade, Sir
Harold Walker, Ian Walker and Martin Wolf.
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We look forward to your further thoughts, observations and views. Thank
you.
Best wishes
For and on behalf of DK Matai, Chairman, Asymmetric Threats Contingency
Alliance (ATCA)
ATCA: The Asymmetric Threats Contingency
Alliance is a philanthropic expert initiative founded in 2001
to resolve complex global challenges through collective Socratic
dialogue and joint executive action to build a wisdom based global
economy. Adhering to the doctrine of non-violence, ATCA addresses
asymmetric threats and social opportunities arising from climate
chaos and the environment; radical poverty and microfinance; geo-politics
and energy; organised crime & extremism; advanced technologies
-- bio, info, nano, robo & AI; demographic skews and resource
shortages; pandemics; financial systems and systemic risk; as
well as transhumanism and ethics. Present membership of ATCA is
by invitation only and has over 5,000 distinguished members from
over 100 countries: including several from the House of Lords,
House of Commons, EU Parliament, US Congress & Senate, G10's
Senior Government officials and over 1,500 CEOs from financial
institutions, scientific corporates and voluntary organisations
as well as over 750 Professors from academic centres of excellence
worldwide.
The views presented by individual contributors are not necessarily
representative of the views of ATCA, which is neutral. Please
do not forward or use the material circulated without permission
and full attribution.
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(0) 20 7712 1501 | internet www.mi2g.net
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Deep study: The world's safest computing environment
London, UK - 2 November 2004, 02:30 GMT - The most comprehensive study
ever undertaken by the mi2g Intelligence Unit over 12 months reveals
that the world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment
- operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform
of BSD (Berkley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin. This
is good news for Apple Computers(AAPL) whose shares have outperformed the
benchmark NASDAQ, S&P and Dow indices as well as Microsoft (MSFT) by over
100% in the last six months on the back of revived sales and profits. The
last twelve months have witnessed the deadliest annual period in terms of
malware - virus, worm and trojan - proliferation targeting Windows based machines
in which over 200 countries and tens of millions of computers worldwide have
been infected month-in month-out.
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Backward compatibility dropped in the name of security
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and large corporations, academic institutions as well as government departments
that have installed the SP2 update on Windows XP machines either directly
or within restricted test environments are reporting problems with their security
software suites in the last 48 hours, according to the mi2g Intelligence
Unit. This is a serious problem because some firewalls, anti-virus tool kits,
intrusion detection systems and anti-spam filters appear to be malfunctioning
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from the mi2g Intelligence Unit, the world leader in digital risk. The global
economic damage from spam in 2004 to date is estimated to lie between $107bn
and $131bn. The economic damage from spam is projected to cross $200bn worldwide
for the whole year. The total amount of spam in 2003 was around 1.6 trillion
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Big Three malware cause heavy productivity losses in
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Poor business processes and auditing holes exacerbate damage
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the loss or misallocation of 72 million Equivalent Person Days (EPDs) worldwide
over the last two months across corporations, government organisations and
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risk. As an average for the last 60 days, the daily sustained loss is 1.2
million EPDs worldwide, the highest ever.
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variants of the Bagle malware family has been found this morning. The variant
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Financial motive behind the malware variants likely
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Bagle, MyDoom and NetSky has now crossed $100bn worldwide over the weekend.
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record breaking months. Seven of the top ten most damaging malware families
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a serious rise in global malware epidemics in the last year. Over 215 countries
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