Stories about: McConnell International

Companies interested in doing business globally must take data privacy issues very seriously because even one slip-up could be devastating to their corporate images, according to a panel of IT executives and other experts who discussed globalization issues at Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference here today.

A Washington-based international consultancy on Thursday released its second analysis of the "e-readiness" of dozens of countries, concluding that business opportunities abound even though there has been little improvement over the results of the last report.

A Washington-based international consultancy on Thursday released its second analysis of the "e-readiness" of dozens of countries, concluding that business opportunities abound even though there has been little improvement over the results of the last report.

As you would expect of anyone in his position, Chris Scalet, CIO at International Paper Co., knows how to make a point. But when his words travel across a global corporate network that spans many cultures and languages, his point can get lost in the translation.

Lots of countries still haven't updated their laws to cover Internet-based crimes, leaving companies in many parts of the world without legal protections from malicious hackers and other attackers who are looking to steal their data, according to a new report released yesterday by a technology consulting firm based here.

At the first Global InfoSec Summit in Washington on Monday, a lot of attention was focused on hackers and crackers and whether laws -- worldwide -- were strong enough to do anything about them. But not everyone at the conference blamed the obvious bad guys.

The Global View Network (GVN) hopes to bring the Internet to developing nations.

The demise of the nation-state has been predicted for more than a century. Karl Marx called for it to wither away. New ecologists argue that ecosystem boundaries make more sense than national borders. In the words of Jose Maria Figueres, former president of Costa Rica, "There are only two nationalities: those that are connected to the Internet and those that are not."

An analysis of 42 countries' current ability to participate fully in the digital economy paints a grim picture for most of them. The authors of the report said the situation is so bad that, unless key countries' act quickly, world economic expansion could stagnate. The report examined the 42 countries for what the authors called "e-readiness". Each country was rated based on five categories -

The Philippines may be a global leader in knowledge workers, but this advantage is being offset by the country's lack of computing resources, technological innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Survey shows popularity of ASPs increasing, ‘e-readiness' gap threatens economic growth