Individual's privacy is in danger without data protection laws. Should industrialized nations just transfer IT that they want to sell or should they sell exactly what the developing countries need for their socio-economic development. Not all developing countries should, and not all shouldn't. It is dependent upon the result of a meticulous analysis of a given countries' immediate needs and goals, and their future needs and goals. Many people believe that information is the key to power.
Computer networks provide a quick and efficient means of exchanging information.
The idea is that these networks enable economic growth and stability within a given country. The economic growth is due to more efficient management and the access to the global marketplace . The current contribution to the global IT industry from developing countries is primarily in the form of manpower and labor-intensive software services. North America, Western Europe, Australia and Japan, with about 10 percent of the world s population, have about 95 to 98 percent of the Internet host sites. While middle-class parents in the United States can expect to have their children developing their own websites at age 10, parents in the developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America are lucky if their children have even touched a computer.