ABSTRACT

The recent two decades has seen a rapid shift in business and governance of telecommunications from mail and plain old telephone services to computer communications services, foremost e-mail, web transactions, and mobile devices. New information and communication technologies certainly create new conditions for the best structures and optimal organizations of our work and of our leisure time too. The challenge of finding the best practice and use of a multitude of emerging information and communications technologies will be with us for many decades to come. This fundamental transition to new ways of offering services by digital information exchange cuts through all sectors in our society and creates a demand for a variety of new specialists and expertise. ICT information security, privacy, and resilience are in the front row of the challenges we must find solutions for. As a result, industry and governments express growing needs for knowledge and experts that can propose viable solutions and make working implementations.