Capacity for Combat

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Capacity forCombat

• Building Capacity through ICTs for Combating
  Cybercrime

Gbenga Sesan Program Manager / Team Leader Lagos
Digital Village / Paradigm Initiative
Nigeria www.gbengasesan.com me_at_gbengasesan.com
Nigerian Anti-Scam Network Cybercrime Seminar.
Lagos Digital Village, Nigeria. September 17 2005.
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The New Face of Crime

• Crime has always taken advantage of the tool of
  the day post, fax, and now the Internet
• Century 21s new opportunities also provide loop
  holes for crime Internet freedom and presumed
  anonymity (free email, chat rooms)
• They are mostly young, wear innocent
  statures/faces, are smart, believe they will
  always beat the system, are proud of their
  mentors, and have many excuses those are
  todays criminals
• New operations mostly feed on greed come in
  deceptive emails, from bogus promises, through
  identity theft, and from anonymous offices
  (cyber-cafes). But office/home-originated cyber
  crime cannot be ruled out

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Cyber-crime flow chart. Owei V, Oyesanya F
NCS-NITPA Annual Meeting, Abuja. June 2004
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The Need for Combat

• The effects of cybercrime on the individual, and
  the nations image and indices are obvious.
  Clog in the wheel of a New Nigeria
• The wrong mentorship system that young Nigerians
  are exposed to encourages a terrible rise in
  cybercrime tendencies
• There is a possibility that cybercrime will shift
  from just cafes into homes and corporate spaces
  (home access increases, employed youth join Yahoo
  Boys for PP)
• The myth that Yahoo Boys are very smart is being
  broken by the day. See Pete Barlass Monday April
  11, 2005 article in Investor's Business Daily,
  FBI Agent Led Cyber Crime Raid That Broke Big
  Case In Nigeria.

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Capacity Building

• Combating cybercrime comes from you staying off,
  and then keeping others away (from the
  hydra-headed monster)
• There are tons of ICT skills that young people
  can learn, that builds clean wealth website
  designs, system maintenance, programming, support
  services, policy engagement, ICT4D, etc Treasure
  Avenue www.treasure.org.ng
• Theres a growing demand for experts and
  researchers who can demystify cybercrime
  policy, software solutions, hardware tools, etc
• Capacity building comes a little easier online
  MIT Open Courseware, Google Scholar, School.ie,
  ITrainOnline, etc
• Lack of resources wont be a good excuse!

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Capacity forCombat
Thank You

• Building Capacity through ICTs for Combating
  Cybercrime

Gbenga Sesan Program Manager / Team Leader Lagos
Digital Village / Paradigm Initiative
Nigeria www.gbengasesan.com me_at_gbengasesan.com
Nigerian Anti-Scam Network Cybercrime Seminar.
Lagos Digital Village, Nigeria. September 17 2005.