For example, if banks lose money because of cyber attacks, they have no incentive to share that information. One person asked if the administration would give up on the idea to escrow encryption keys. The FBI agent who has the key, he said, will be pressured by business or criminal interests to divulge it. He did not, however, answer the question. Kalil said the administration is trying to foster Internet access in developing countries by attempting to persuade them to develop better telecommunications policies.
Price often has nothing to do with value in other countries.
One of the challenges is that the U.S. foreign aid budget is small and getting smaller. Kalil told her the general sense in the U.S. government is that there needs to be more national consensus- building before international agreements can be created. Kalil also outlined some of the uses for net technology in diplomacy. He said most of the foreign affairs establishment has been slow to take advantage of it. But during negotiations for the Dayton peace accords, they used a GIS system to virtually fly people over terrain, to explain why lines were drawn in certain areas.