Directions for Developing National Cyberworld Strategies

Abstract

The cyberworld is becoming of increasing importance, as its technologies are rapidly progressing and as its useful services are widely expanding. In response, ambitious countries need to establish their own cyberworld strategic directions to maintain an active role in this world. This paper is concerned with developing generic structured national strategic directions for the cyberworld. For this purpose, the paper reviews key sources on the matter, and develop the targeted directions for the future. The key sources considered are associated with the international level, and they include the UN and ITU; the national level, and they include the USA and Germany; and the people’s level, involving people’s requirements and responsibilities. The views were structured according to the five domains of “strategy, technology, organization, people, and the environment: STOPE”. Within these five domains, 18 issues were identified, and subsequently they were refined into 59 cyberworld strategic directions. It is hoped that the outcome would be useful to researchers and planners in the field.