Cybersecurity in Mumbai, India

Indian journalist Amit Varma reported (and veteran technology news site Slashdot.org… picked it up) Mumbai’s police are requiring the city’s 500 Internet cafes to install keystroke loggers, which will capture every keystroke by users and turn that information over to the government,  perhaps in realtime. Buy things online, and the Indian police will have your [...]

No Internet for Africa

There remains a tremendous connectivity gap between Africa and the broadband world. Just 4% of Africans have Internet access, and despite being among the poorest in the world, they pay the most globally for their connection: around $250 to $300 per month. Nigeria, one of the most populous countries in the world, have only a [...]

Impractical Piracy

The NPD group ran a survey monitoring the behavior of 12,000 Americans with software on their computers. Of those, 1.5% have DVD ripping software (which can scan and copy DVDs). Of those, about 66% used in the first quarter of his year. Contrast this with 12% of people who burned their own music CDs. Some [...]

The Digital Bible Society (www.digitalbiblesociety.org…) has created a searchable CD Chinese Bible (reportedly easy to email) that they give away for free. The CD format allows it to be copied and hidden very easily. They are developing a new upgraded version 4 and it will be out soon. They are also looking for Arabic language [...]

The Evangelical Training Database (www.trainforchrist.org…) is a searchable Internet database seeks to list evangelical pastoral, theological and missionary training courses in all countries. The Missionary Training Service, based in the UK, runs the project.

CIO Simon Jennings explains how Oxfam GB runs the fifth largest retail business in the UK to support its humanitarian efforts, and describes the challenges of delivering application services and mobile solutions to remote, and often insecure, locations. Jennings sits down with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber in a CIO Vision Series interview. View [...]

Internet Evangelism Day

Our purpose is two-pronged:
a) to demonstrate to Christians the enormous potential the Web has for outreach, and to explain the strategies needed to harness this new medium
b) to encourage churches and other Christian groups to create a focus day program using our free downloads, so they can share these same challenges with their members
In the [...]