Okinawa meeting tackles governance in lawless cyberspace

THE term "cyber" is used nowadays as a prefix for the myriad things that have to do with computers and with the Internet.

But anyone attending the so-called Cyber 3 conference in Okinawa last weekend - held in conjunction with the World Economic Forum to discuss the challenges of cyber-governance - might have concluded that "cyber-jungle" is the most appropriate word for this virtual domain.

Cyberspace is indeed a jungle, so far as rules and regulations - or rather, the lack thereof - are concerned, even though the word cyber is derived from the Greek for "helmsman" and originally referred to the study of rules and governance.