The impact of new technologies upon Cyber Trust & Crime Prevention - emerging findings of a Foresight project

Speaker: Miles Yarrington

24th March 2004 , 2:30pm , Room 519, Claremont Tower

Abstract

The Cyber Trust & Crime Prevention project is looking at the application and implications of future generation information technologies in areas such as identity and authenticity, surveillance, system robustness, security and information assurance and the basis for effective interaction and trust between people and machines. This has involved bringing together experts from a broad range of subjects, covering technology and its uses, to develop a number of visions for the future that allow us to explore potential key decision points over the next 10 to 15 years. One of the assumptions made is that ICT will become increasingly pervasive during that period, but there are question marks around the emergent behaviours of complex systems and how that may affect peoples perceptions of risk and the development of on-line trust.

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Miles Yarrington
Project leader for the Cyber Trust & Crime Prevention project
DTI - Foresight