They can also assist in the formulation of statutory information protection regulations including international copyright standards, confidentiality, integrity of data. The European Commission highlights the need to find a balance between personal privacy and legitimate requirements of business, basically through two directives concerning the protection of personal data which is likely to have full force of law in each Member State of the European Union. All have issued directives or position papers on the subject. They can also develop educational programmes on basic principles of ethics. Our dream today is not fundamentally about technology.
Technology is a means to an end.
It is clear that many areas need to be addressed in order to make the applications of new technologies real tools of human development throughout the world.