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Spam issues in developing countries
Spam issues in developing countries
Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development, May 2005, 32 Pages
The ITU/WSIS Thematic Meeting on Spam held in Geneva in July 2004 recognised the pressing needs to develop technical and financial anti-spam measures to fight against spam in the countries across the globe. Through this paper, OECD Taskforce attempted to delineate such measure beyond the ambit of its member states.
The technical and economical aspects of spam for developing economies focus on the impact of ISPs (bandwidth, costs, accountability for spam issues, ISP resources and organizational limitations) while its effect on users can be determined through user costs, software piracy and its impact on viruses that propagate through spam. Education of users, provisioning of secure computing resources and enactment of appropriate legislature can help users fight against spam.
Developing economies warrant low-cost, yet technically sound solutions against spam. As anti-spam solutions needs to be locally implemented, it should be done at the lowest possible cost. International cooperation at multiple levels (ISP to ISP, government to government, business to business) and enabling legislative and regulatory framework have been seen as effecting measures in countering the spam.
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